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Five Times a Bigamist?â€"Prescott Police Take Their Prisoner East From Whitby. A Whitby despatch says : Constable Crites, of Prescott, with an assistant arrived here this morning and has returned with the prisoner Silas E. Seymour, alias W. J. Shaver, alias Martin, arrested. here last evening on charges of horse stealing and bigamy telegraphed from the town down the St. Lawrence. The innocent young girl, apparently not more than 17, who came here with Seymour, stated that she met him only two weeks ago Saturday, ‘ and that they were married the following Thursday. Her maiden name was Fish‘ and her home in Gananoqne. For a wed- ding trip they went to Toronto, where he got a livery and drove to Whitby. In sell~ ; ing the horse and buggy to raise money‘ enough for fares to Buffalo from here, he ‘ got into trouble. No one has yet claimed ‘ the property at Sebert’s. Seymour, it was stated by the Prescott policeman, had i only a few months ago been released from the Kingston Penitentiary, six months before his time was up, because of exemplary behavior, after serving a term there for bigamy. This is his sixth ven- ture on the sea of matrlmony. During the preliminary hearing before Police Magis- trate Harper the simple girl, who has so sadly erred in hastily marrying the scoun- drel, with wondering innocence listened to the discussion by the court officials of how she was to be taken care of, when finally the kindhearted magistrate settled the matter by lending Policeman Grites $10 with which to pay her fare home, and she went without a word, it is hoped a wiser woman. One of Seymour‘s victims is now respectably married and living at Belle- ville. At the time that Shaver figured before the public there he was engaged in keeping a small store at Omemee, the busi- ness having been started with his then wife’s money. He went to Bolleville on business one day, and hunting up agirl that he had formerly courted, was quietly married by Rev. J. B. Clarkaon, now in Cobourg. Chief McKinnon learned of the marriage, and knowing of Shaver’s charac. ter followed him to Trenton. He had stopped with his bride to call on a friend on the way, when the Chief found them and brought the girl back to her friends, and the bigamist was sent to Kingston for three years. Read His Own Name on a Tombstoneâ€"A Wanderer for Twenty Years. An Oxford, Me, despatoh says : An old man with gray hair and beard, bowed down with years and feeble. was seen on the day before Christmas groping his way slowly, like one partially blind, among the graves in the old churchyard. In spite of his years his frame showed great strength and ower of endurance. His name was Ezekiel ogg, and as he stooped before an old stone, crumbling with the frost of many winters, he had the unusual experience of witness- ing his own name engraved thereon. '1 he fact was that, although alive and still vigorous, he had been for years dead to his familyand friends, and they had marked his death by a suitable mound and head- stone. The old man has had a romantic life since last he saw his friends. He started for the west over twenty years ago and settled in Plattsburg, NY” for a, short time, only to continue on in his travrls until he reached a town in Nebraska, where .he worked in a3 stone quarry. There his wife and son ‘ Frank, avohild in arms, joined him later,‘ but afternyear or two they came back to Maine, the father agreeing to follow in a few days. Fogg did not return and no word was heard from him except an un- denied story that he had been murdered for his money. It Was reported that three strangers hired him to guide them through the‘woods toa distant town. Then the names otA. Ba Fuller, a Mr. Stetson'and two others were coupled with a story of murder in which the strangers had been hired to put him out of the way. Fogg travelled about in various parts of the west, arriving at one time in Arkansas and living later as a hunter and trapper in the mountains of the far west. One day he found a Maine paper and he road 0! the death of a man bearing the name of his only son. This revived his memories and he decided to return home, hoping that he might find some trace of his family, and also that he could be benefited by. the treatment of a skilful oculist. A New Kind of Church Music Causes a Sensation. A Syracuse (N. Y.) despatch says: There has been a. mystery about the large pipe organ at St. Paul’s Cathearal for a. week. Whenever H. R. Fuller, the organist. touched the keys, weird noises were heard in the interior. There was a large attendance at the morning service yesterday. The Rev. Dr. Lockwood was in the middle of the bene- diction when a. large, wild-looking maltese cat made a flying leap over the head of the organist and landed near W. J. West, a member of the choir, fastening its claws in his knee. Before the out could be seized it was half way down the side aisle. A gen- tleman in the rear tried to catch it, but only succeeded in making it double its tracks and go rushing up the main aisle straight for Dr. Lockwood. The worthy rector lost his place in the prayer as he caught sight of the wild-eyed cat rapidly approaching. The cat did not pause, but rushed between the feet of the excited chorus boys. A few seconds later and the cat was back again in its old quarters in the organ. It was some time before the interrupted service could be resumed. An investigation showed that the cat had made her home in the organ and had broken several of the smaller “trackers.” The eccleiastical authorities have made every effort to capture the cat, but without success. AChicago despatch says : The stories of the horrors suflered by unfortunate girls in the dance house stockades in Northern Wis- consin Were recalled by a scene in the Court of Insane Inquiry this morning. A slight and handsome young girl, dressed in black, was led in. Hattie Nathan was her name, so the doctor told Judge Prendergast. He said her ailment was acute mania. As he spoke, the prisoner glanced behind her and cowered in her chair, muttering : " Save me 1 they are after me. I hear them barking, and the men are right he- hind them." Hattie Nathan was the daughter of parents who live in Oconto, “’is. She was a wayward girl and got into trouble, which resulted in her entering one of the brothels near Marinette. She soon realized the horrors of her position, and made repeated but unsuccessful attempts to escape,withthe result that she became demented. Then she was released. She next appeared at the door of a house of ill- repute in this city, and was cared for. She has remained there since, being rational a. portion of the time. Of late her dementia has been more acute, and the result was to- day’s proceedings. She will be sent back to her home in Oconto. Ber Nerves Were Settled. Mrs. Pallidâ€"“ Don’t you find that the noise of the boilerfoundry across the street affects your nerves, Mrs. Youngwiie ‘2” Mrs. Youngwifeâ€"“ I Scldom hear it.” " How strange I" “ Well, you see. baby is teething now.” Superintendent Sheffield, who was shot in Montreal by a railway can: porter, is still living, and the doctors have some hope that he may survive. A company has been formed to sink 9. test well for oil, gas or salt at Ghatham. MR. FOGG‘S STRANGE STORY. A Victim of Dance House Dives. A MAN 0F MANY WIVES. A. CAT IN THE ORGAN. A Belleville despatch says: There was a quiet marriage at St. John's Church this morning, and the story as told by an intimate acquaintance of both parties sounds very romantic. Some 17 years ago Mr. Reginald Lambton Sewell, a son ‘of the Chief Justice of Quebec, was teller in the local branch Bank of Montreal. He was handsome, affable, fond of society, and was courted by a wide circle of friends. He fell in love with a Belleville belle, but courted in vain. His suit was rejected repeatedly, and, finally despairing of success, he gave up his position and left the city. For a time he was in the Imperial Bank at Toronto, but after a time disappeared entirely, at least so far as his Belleville friends were con- cerned. In the meantime the lady of his choice was wooed and won by the late Charles W. Bell. They had been married but a few years when Mr. Bell died, leaving a young widow and an infant son. Shortly after the old lover returned and renewed his suit, but with no better success than had attended him at first. He has been absent for some four years, but returned yesterday. The result of this visit was that a license was secured in the evening, and this morning Rev. D. F. Bogart tied the nuptial knot and the couple took the noon train for the east. The whole affair was so quietly and quickly carried out that not even the most intimate friends of the bride knew of it, but there are scores in the city who will remember 17 years ago and think of the old adage, " Faint heart never ,Won fair lady.” An Albany despetch says: In the United States District Court yesterday the grand jury made its presentment. Chang Lee, Low How and Ah Quong, of Buffalo, were indicted for smuggling opium into the United States from Canada. Ah Quong and Low How pleaded guilty. Low How was fined $400. Ah Quong was sentenced to the Albany County Penitentiary for two years and fined $100. The evidence against Chang Lee was insufficient, and he was acquitted, having pleaded not guilty. Wm. Lund and Edmund Mellinger, of Erie county, accomplices of the Chinamen in smuggling opium, pleaded guilty to the charge of smuggling opium at Suspension Bridge and were fined $400 and committed to the Erie County Jail until it should be paid. The fact that they had given testi- mony which assisted in the detection of the smugglers was adduced to mitigate their sentence. Yesterday the jury in the case of Ephraim Gardner, charged with smuggling opium across the Canadian border at Cape Vincent at Ogdensburg, was discharged and the case was laid over to the March term. Bail was fixed at $2,000. A Peterboro’ despatch says : An elope- ment under peculiar circumstances occurred the other day“ A well-to-do farmer in Cardiff township named Hughey, had an 18-year-old daughter whose affections were won by a neighboring farmer named Evans, a widower aged nearly 40 years. The father'didn‘t favor the suit, and sent the girl to Peterboro’ to separate the two. Evans found out the girl’s whereabouts and began communicating with her. To prevent this, the father decided to make another change and bring the girl back home, but the lover, learning of his inten’ tions, stole a march on the old man and ‘ drove down to Paterboro', a distance of 60 ‘miles,to secure his lady love. She fled ‘ with him to Evans’ relatives in Aephodel township, where they were doubtless mar- ried. The old man arrived here in hot haste just two hours too late, and seeing that his efforts to prevent the marriage had failed, gave up further pursuit and returned home. A Bride‘s Terrible Expezience. On Tuesday at Millheven Samuel Peter- son and Fred. Sterling broke through the ice while skating. Herbert Milligan, hearing their cries, ran to the rescue with. a. board, but before he reached the lads he, went through and immediately Bank, the. only apparent struggle being the raising of his hand above water. His wife, sister and mother watched with alarm his gal- lunt attempt to save the lads. They saw him lose his own life. His wife was a. bride of two weeks. being a daughter of Henry Benjamin, of Ernesttown. She had ; to be dragged into the house. Meanwhile ‘ the boys were rescued, Peterson getting on the ice and keeping hie comrade from sink- ing until help arrived. A Persistent Lover Successful at Last. Feminine Perversity. Aunt Betsyâ€"J wonder, James, at your encouraging young Cadby to be so much with Madeline! He’s a. bad match, and not a. good fellow, I fear! Papaâ€"Confound him, no! I’ve given him carte blanche to come when he likes, and she’s getting rather tired of him at last, for I’m always cracking him up! Aunt Betsyâ€"-And that nice fel- low, Gooflenough ? He’s never here now? Papaâ€"No; I've forbidden him the house, and won't even allow his name to be men- tioned. She’s always thinking of him in consequence. I'm in hopes she’ll marry him some day. Experimental Engagement Rings. Young men, confidentiallyâ€"I want to see some of your solitaire rings. Jeweller â€"â€"Enga.gement ring, I presume. Young manâ€"Y-yes, sir. Jewellerâ€"Here’s just the thing you want, Alaska. atone, rolled plate and warranted for a. year. Young man~But I want a. real atone. Jeweller-â€" Of course. As I was going to any, we give one of the pleted rings along with each real stone. They are exact duplicates. If the engagement be e success it is very easy to substitute the real for the imitationâ€"4 Terre Hautc Express. Two Boys Married. A Columbia (8. C.) deepetch says: A strong effort has been made to have a. marriage license law in this State, and aavocetes of the measure have been strength- ened by 9. trick played on the Rev. A, Durâ€" ham,of Piedmont, by Franklin Merritt and Robert Dilworth,‘two young men, the for- mer being attired as a. woman, who applied to be merriefl. The ceremony was perform- ed, and the preacher inserted the marriage ‘notice in a. local paper before he was i unfieoeived. From Bad to Worse. Sheâ€"N I would like to call you by your Christian name, love, but Tom is so hateful and ‘commen, you know. Haven't you some pet name ? ” Heâ€"“No-no, Instâ€"haven’t”, She~“ Are you always known as Tom among your friends ? He (brightening up) --“ No, the boys call me ‘ Shorty.’ " Jay Gould will take a. trip through the South to recuperate. ‘ ‘ ' The Opium Smugglers Sentenced. VOL XI The Old Man’s Darling. TRY, TRY AGAIN. A Fenian Witness on the Phosnix Park Murders. A London cable says: Upon the re- sumption of the session of the Parnell Commission yesterday morning, presiding Justice Hannen said Mr. O’Brien‘s article in United Ireland, for which he was summoned to appear before the court, ex- ceeded a. fair discussion of the case under investigation, but he admitted that there was some force in Mr. O’Brien’e arguments regarding the continued circulation of the Times pnmphletfig and said he believed no disrespect was intended to be shown towards the court by theerticle. There- fore he would not punish Mr. O’Brien. He ndded,however,thst in future cases of a similar nature would be more severely treated Patrick Delaney, a convict in the Mary- borough prison, testified that he belonged to the Fenians until September, 1882. rl‘he principal leaders of the organization were Messrs. Egan, Brennan, Dr. McAllister, John Lavey and John Dorsn. About 1879 a number of delegates, including John O’Connor, John Devoy and Gen. Millen, came from America, and the Witness attended a meeting in Foresters’ Hall, Dublin, at which John Devoy represented the American Council and Gen. Millen inspected the military organization. It was arranged that arms be provided and the expenses paid. At another meeting held in the Rotunda, Messrs. Devitt, Par- nell, Egan, Bigger, Dillon, Brennan' and Harris attended. Curley, at this meeting, attacked Mr. stitt for not adhering to the principles of the organization. After the meeting the witness was told that the circles were not opposed to the League, which would organize the Fenisns in the country and supply_them with arms. The witness Enid he had forgotten a por- tion of the Invinciblee' oath. but the prin- cipal was to assassinate the Viceroy and the Whole Executive of Ireland. The Invinci- blee received money from the League. Messrs. Egan, Byrne and Tynan paid some to Daniel Delaney, Mullett and Brady. The witness was deputed to watch the movements of Mr. Forster, at that time Chief Secretary for Ireland. Joseph Brady and Timothy Kelly were to shoot Mr. For- ster, while Witness was to intercept persons crossing the Queen street bridge while Kelly and Brady endeavored to carry out their purpose. _-_. . . . - n, , 1'“, “,A:_ “HA- r“-r'â€"~' Witness took no part in the Phoenix Park murders. Mrs. Byrne brought over the two knives that were used in committing those murders. Atameeting of a com- mittee of the Invincibles held after the Phoenix Park murders, a quantity of gold and bank notes were laid upon the table. Afterwards more revolvers, daggers and money came. .. q n ,u.,,...; LA Delaney further spoke of an attempt to- hire shouse on Castle Hill, from which oflieials of the castle could be shot with rifles. Carey failed to get the house. In 1881, when Carey was a candidate for the Dublin Municipal Council, Egan promised that all his expenses would be paid. Egan held that an Invincible ought to be Lord Mayor. Delaney identified letters signed by Egan. When questioned in regard to Egan‘sletter, in which reference is made to a. fund, Delaney said he knew n'othing about a. fund. On cross-examination by Sir Charles Russell, the witness admitted that when 17 years old he was sentenced to penal servi- tude for five years for highway robbery. He enrolled himself with the Fenians the same night he left prison. When he was accused of the Phoenix Park murders he gave the authorities all the information in his possession. It was his wife who, while ‘ visiting him in prison, warned him that he was suspected in connection with the Phoenix Park murders. He thereupon sup- plied a written statement to the prison ‘ omcials. When asked how he came to give the Times evidence, he stated that Crown Solicitor Shannon came to the jail a fortnight ago and took his sworn statement. Recurring to the Fenian organization, he declared that it was never an assassination society except in cases where somebody informed against them. The Fenians sought to fight openly, and were very different from the Invincibles. He knew Egan, Brennan and Byrne to be Fenians in 1876, having met them ata secret meeting. He admitted that he never met them among the Invincibles, but knew they were leaders of the lnvincibles through Carey and others. He never aw any one of them giving money to anybody, but had seen money on a table at which Byrne was sitting. The witness stated that he was sentenced to death for com- plicity in the Phoenix Park murders, and Lord Spencer commuted his sentence to life imprisonment, which he is now under- going. A London cable says: The cross-ex- amination of Patrick Delaney was resumed before the Parnell Commission yesterday. The witness persisted in declaring that he saw Boyton point out to Invincible Brady the Chairman of the Prison Board, Mr. Bourke, for assassination. On cross- examination by Michael Davitt, Delaney said he was positive that he had often seen Davitt in company with Dan Carley, although he could not fix the dates. Re. examined with reference to the funds of the Fenians, he stated that until 1879 the party was without money other than the few pence weekly subscribed by members. Some pawned their watches to send dele- gates to America. Carey, after the In- vincibles were organized, obtained funds from the League and started business as a contractor. Being shown the photograph of a man in uniform, witness declared that it was Invincible No. 1. At the close of the examination Justice Hannen ordered that Delaney be held in custody in London in case he should be wanted‘again. THE INVINCIBLES_ AND FENIANS. Attorney-General Webster then read correspondence between Mat. Harris anél Michael Davitt with reference to. the land agitation. The only letter that attracted attention was one from Davitt to Harris, written in New York, in which Davitt said: “ Perhaps you are not aware that John O’Lesry is here. He came from Paris to upset my Lend League endeavors. He will go back a Wiser though a. sadder man. He is supported by nobody saving the few bosthcous following that blatant ass, Rosss. 1 The Nationalists on this side are common- sense men. O’Leary failed to get up a. 1 crusade against the League in America. Roses. is now trying his hand. He will achieve more success upon your side than upon this. He is a. cowardly, low ruffisn, who has not the courage to resent an in- \ snlt I offered him in the Herald. He has not sufficient courage to set fire to a. British haystuck. Do your utmost to keep the people .witnllin bounds." ,4“: :z n... 1-LLA..,. A: "ifigiéé'fi'iniéfi’iskea if the letters 0; Mr; Parnell would be shown to the Bar- pgllitg counsel, as the court seemed to he RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1889. A STARTLING STORY. within a reasonable «iistance of getting at them. Attorney-General Webster refused to be pinned to a. definite time for the production of the letters. a Justice Harman th: ‘0 expressed the opinion that: both sides shwld Show the letters in their possession insended to be used for comparison. .. ml , A L2,._ -1 "W: _______ A London cable says: The taking of evidence was further resumed at the Parnell Commission yesterday. Capt. Plunkett, chief of the Cork police, testified as to the petpetmtion of outrages. He said he knew of no support given to tenants in their hop-payment of rent and resistance to eviction except that given by the Land and National Leagues. Matters had improved since ‘the passage of the Coer- cion Act. Referring to the further disclosure of documents, Mr. Asguith, sounael for Mr. Parnell, said that alter a consultation with Sir Charles Russell it had been decided not to press the inspection of the alleged fac- simile letters of M r. Parnell. ' Capt. Plunkett, on cross-examination, created a sensation by stating that he had heard Father O'Connor, the parish priest of Firies, denounce at a. cattle sale a farmer nemed Curtin, and that a. week later the farmer was murdered. Father O'Connor did not name Curtin. but he alluded to him in such a. way that there could be no mistake as to whom he meant. Replying to Mr. Devitt, the witness ad- mitted that he met secretly in Cork in 1883 the Irish American McDermott. He declined to say whether or 'not he knew McDermott as a. paid agent of the police. French, the head of the detective force, also met MoDermott. The witness did not know that French had paid McDermott money 1:0 concoct dynamite plots. 1. .1, Mr. Parnell is at present confined to the house with an attack of rheumatism in the shoulder. While his illness is very painful it is nothing serious. and he is expected to be about in a few days. His Four Daughters Elopo, and He Killed Two of Their Lovers and Fatally Wounded One of the Girls. A St. Louis despstoh says: 1 he little town of Bolar, in Mercer County, Mo., turns out the following tragic story: Henry Thomas, on old farmer, had four grown daughters named Hattie, Margaret, Nancy and Jane, aged 16, 18, 20 and 22 years re- spectively. Last Wednesday night Samuel and Charles Hasburn, brothers, procured a ladder and helped Margaret and Jane out of a second-story window of their father’s house, and as they were about to elope with the girls‘the old man appeared on the scene but too late to prevent their escape. He at once procured the best horse he had and a shotgun, and started in hot pursuit. When, about twelve miles from home he overtook the fleeing party. He immediately opened fire on them, killing both the boys and seriously wound pg/ Margaret. After get- tin near] 3:; s 1th the girls he was told "this: the chief ' attie and Nancy, had eloped with Ned. Gleason and Thus. Allison. He at once left the girls he had with him in charge of some neighbors and started after the others. After securing the other two girls without any serious trouble he started back, but when about two miles from home a mob took possession of him and strung him up to a tree. The old man was terribly strict with the girls. He would hardly let them out of his sight, hence the elopements. He always bragged that he would not be bothered with lazy sons-in- law. Public feeling is strongly in favor of the lynching. Margaret died last night. Have a Bloody Fight Over Some Prisoners. A St. Louis despotch says : A special from Fort Worth, Tex., received here late last night, says Sherifl Richardson, of this county, received a telephone message about midnight from Graham, in Young County, ‘ to the efifect that while a Deputy United ‘ States Marshal, with a posse of Graham citizens, was escorting the four Marlow brothers, Buckhart and another man named Pearce to the Parker County jail at Westherford, the prisoners being indicted for four murders and eight cases of horse theft, a mob of thirty citizens attempted to lynch them. _The Marshal and posse defended the prisoners and a. terrible fight took place. Two of the Marlow brothers were killed and four of the posse at the first fire. The fight continued, and another one of the Marlowe and Pearce were wounded, and another one of the citizens mortally 3hurt. The prisoners Pearce, Marlow and Buckhsrt escaped, but all are ssid to be wounded. The fight took place two and s-half miles from town. It is not known how many of the mob were hurt. A large posse has been made up at Graham and are in pursuit of the fugitives and the members of the mob. Sheriff Richardson has wired the sheriffs at Henrietta, Vernon, Wichita, Cisco, Abilene and Colorado City. A Young Man anda Young Woman Suicide ' at Monte Carlo. A London cable says : The young men and woman who committed suicide at Monte Carlo yesterday were respectively 29 and 19 years of age. They were natives of Lyons and had spent the winter together at Monte Carlo. Neither was known, nor has their identity as yet been established, but they brought with them large sums of money and spent most of their time at the gaming-tables, roulette being their favorite game. When they had reached the bottom of their combined purse they wrote to friends in Nice ennounoing the fact, and asserting that they contemplated suicide. Upon receipt of a. letter from one of them, a friend hurried to Monte Carlo, but was i refused admission to their room, an officer ‘ of the police giving as reason for refusal the information that the couple were dead. Other information concerning the couyle was requested, but that was also refused, and, in the interest of the prevailing “ in- dustry ” at Monte Carlo. the proprietors and attaches of the hotel made every effort to suppress publicity of the tragedy. Neglected Opportunities. Sympathetic Viaitorâ€"Poor man I What are you here for ‘2 “ For stealing a gold ring, Miss.” “ Poor fellow 1 And don't you sometimes reger you; vsaqted ogportunitiea ? ” n THEY LYNCHED THE OLD MAN. Winaéed I do, niiés. There was a five- thousand-dollar necklace in the showcase that I stole'the ring from and I neveriaaw it.” ' Never Saw fiim Befiore. “ Now, children,” said the visitor, creas- ing his face into the Sunday-school smile, sun-baked and kiln dried, “ why do you think I am a Christian ‘2 ” Young Headless, in back eat-â€"“ Cause we don’t know you ! " LYNCHERS AND I’OLIC E GAMBLED AND LOST. Rev. Canon Belcher, of Grace Church, Montreal, is dangerously ill with pneu- monia. Alberrt Dafoe, 20 years old, was drowned on Saturday while attempting to cross Bay Bay, near Napanee. The Morrisburg electric fire alarm was tested on Saturday, and works very satis- factorily. Rev. T. W. Jeffrey preached the anniver- sary sermons of Elm Street Methodist Church, Toronto, yesterday. The weather was very cold in Montreal yesterday, and the Carnival Committee now hope to have the ice palace built in time for the Carnival. A theological student at Albert College, Charles Edwards, has been advised by an unknown friend in England that he is heir to an estate valued at several hundred thousand pounds. A deputation from Montreal waited on the Governor-General and Sir John Mac- donald in Ottawa. on Saturday, and invited them to the Montreal Board of Trade din- ner on Wednesday. Celina Metayer, a 13-yearâ€"old girl who was confined in a dark room at the back of a Montreal barber’s shop. and kept for im- moral purposes, was on Saturday sent to the Reformabory for five years. Her seducer has escaped to the States. Jailer Sparks was surprised on Friday when the door of the Windsor Court House opened and in walked James Smith, the juvenile prisoner, who took French leave last Tuesday. He said he had been wandering around the Grand Mamie, and was starving. The holiness doctrine, which has caused considerable commotion in Gait, has quite a few devoted iollowere at Oshawa. For several months holiness conventions have been held there, the members of which give utterance to the beliefs held by those expelled by the church in Gait. A brakeman named John McGuire, living at Point Edward, running east on a special on Saturday morning, was squeezed between the bumpers While coupling care at Komoka. Upon the arrival of the train at London the unfortunate man was con- veyed in the ambulance to the city hospital. The steamer Ceriboo Fly returned to Victoria, B. 0., on t'atnrday night from an exploring trip to the Queen Charlotte Islands. The vessel brings news that on December 15th, while Cunningham‘s schooner Skena was making a trip to Skidate she sprang a leak and sank. Eight Indian passengers and Cunningham were drowned. The captain, a white boy and seven Indians escaped. The eloper, Charles Clarence, who took away with him the Wife of Mr. Buck- borough, of Ingersoll, appeared before the London Police Magistrate on Saturday morning. Clarence in his flight took a horse and buggy belonging to Frank Sage, livery keeper. Mr. Sage, having recovered his property, declined to prosecute. The prisoner was therefore remanded for a Week on'the charge of assaulting the lady at whose house he eta.de While in London and whom he refused to pay. A terrible accident occurred on Saturday in the new Perreault block on St. James street east, Montreal. The building is of an immense height,and the workmen were engaged in taking down the internal scaf- folding. A laborer named Louis Revel was standing on the ground and was in the act of lowering three scaffold planks, which had been lashed together, from the eighth story, when a heavy pine block and- denly fell from above and crashed down through the centre of the building on the poor fellow’s head. His head was terribly fractured, and he died shortly afterwards. John Burney, driver of the Shedden mail cart between the depot and Post-office at London, was the victim of a most brutal assault on Saturday. The teamster in charge of the Shedden stables, it seems, has orders to clean them every morning at a certain hour. This order has caused more or less trouble? and several disputes. Burney found it necessary to go to the stables in the morning, and on attempting to go in was ordered back by the tenmster in charge. He insisted on entering, how- ever, when the man struck him, knocking him off the step to the ground, a distance of three or four feet, and breaking his collar bone and one, rib. As Burney is an old men upwards of 60 the injuries to him are very serious. TELEGRAPHIO SUMMARY. At the Ordcnfeat yesterday Emperor William conferred 1,500 decorations, chiefly of a. military character. The Manchester Cotton Spinnere’ Asso ciation have passed a. resolution by a unanimous vote to form niund to be used for trying in the law courts atest case relative to the excessive dampness of American cotton. Dcspatches from Samoa. say the Ger- mans have burned American hauses, torn down the United States flag and seized some American citizens in the neutral Water of Apia. harbor and taken them prisoners on board a German man-of-war. The British steamer Duke of Bucking- ham, from Norfolk January 5th for Bremen, was in collision yesterday off Deal with the British ship Denbighshire. The latter sank and two of her crew were drowned. The steamek’s bows were stove, but she proceeded. The Duke of Norfolk is expected to 9.):- rive in Rome soon. He is still desirous of taking holy orders, but it is understood that the Pope objects to his doing so, as he does not wish His Grace to abandon his position at the British Court, in which capacity he is capable of rendering greater service to the Holy See thnn as an occleniastic. New York ice companies are forming a trust. Serious racial troubles arq reported from Ty Ty, Ga", wherein a recent riot two negroes were shot dead for resisting a. bailiff in making an arrest. James Thomas, alias Wm. Brennan, who was arrested for writing threatening letters to fallen women in St. Louis, sigulpg him- ééliw‘zfimk the: Ripper,” waé oVn Savturday committed to the instant; asyluq._ Robert A. Pinkerton has written to the New York Herald emphatically denying that paper’s statementthat the Pinkerton Detective Agency was hunting up evidence for the London Times on the Parnell matter. Gen. Poe, who is constructing a. new channel for the United States through the St. Clair flute, says that part of the chanf nel undoubtedlyrliea in Canadian waters but he anticipates no trouble between the two Governments. x The Bill reported by the Ford Commit- tee to the United States House of Repre- sentatives on Saturtay, on contract labor, is a. very stringent measure, and consider- ably limits the class of people regarded by the authorities ae desirable immigrants. WHOLE NO 1,590 NO. 31. A BURGLAR’S CLEVER EXPEDIENT. A woman named Catherine Barrogan was charged at Bow Street Polioe Court, London, the other day with aiding in a burglary in an optician’s shop in Holborn. Evidence was given to the effect that detec- tives went to prisoner’s residence, and there found several opera glasses and barometers. Whilst there u. man came in, whom they charged with complicity, and on searching him found a barometer in his pocket. He said he had just bought it over the way. The officers went with him to a shop on the opposite side of the street. The man went behind the counter, and suddenly disappeared through a trap-door. Witness immediately followed, and fell into a, dark cellar, where he 'wss instantly seized by two bull terriers, who held him while the man made good his escape. Other officers came to the rescue of witness, but it was necessary to best the dogs off with an iron crowbar before they released their hold. The prisoner was remanded. Try Not to Cough. A physician who is connected with an institution which contains many children says: “There is nothing more irritating to a cough than to cough. For some time I had been so fully assured of this that I recently determined, if possible for one minute, at least, to lessen the number of coughs heard in a. certain ward in the hos- pital of the institution. By the promise of rewards and punishments I succeeded in inducing them simply to hold their breath when tempted to cough, and in slittle While I was myself surprised to see how some of the children entirely recovered from their disease. “Constant coughing is precisely like scratching a. wound on the outsiae of the body ; so long as it is done the wound will not heal. Let a. person, when tempted to cough, draw a long breath and hold it until it warmsand soothes every air cell, and some benefit will soon be received from the process. The nitrogen, which is thus refined, acts as an anodyne to the irriteted mucous membrane, alloying the desire to cough and giving the throat and lungs a chance to heal. At the same time a. suitable medicine will sit] nature in her effort to recuperate.” Latest Scottish News. Dr. McGregor, the Governor of British New Guinea, began life as a. ploughman in Aberdeenshire. Mr. George Yule, the President of the Indian National Congress, is a son of the late Mr. Robert Yule, draper, Stonehaven. Mrs. Robb, the Laurencekirk centena- rian,has just seen another birthday. On the 25th um, she entered on her 102ml year, and is enjoying fairly good health. Rev. Dr. Andrew Thomson, Edinburgh, in the course of a New Year’s address to the Broughton Place U. P. congregation, expressed the belief that this year would witness the renewal of negotiations for an incorporating union between the Free and U. P. Churches; By the recent death of Mrs. Macneille £10,000 (left by her husband, the late Provosh Macneille) falls to be administered by the Ayr Town Council for behoof of the poor of Ayr not paupers. Provost Mac- neille was a leather merchant in Ayr, and for three terms filled the office of Chief gingistmte of the town. He had no chil- ten. Lord Dufferin’s eldest son has been slaughtering tigers at a great pace in India. â€"six on one expedition. It is annoufioed that Mrs. Humphrey Ward has been writing an “ Answer ” to the various criticisms on “ Robert Ela- mere." The British AttorneyAGeneml makes, it is said, £40,000 a. year at the bar. Sir Horace Davey’s annual incomeâ€"Which is not, like that of Sir R. Webster, supple- mented by a. handsome official salaryâ€"is put at £25,000. A labormg man named Robert Wood- cock, aged 68 years, died a. few days ago at Whitington, Norfolk. On his deathbed he gave his eldest son a. key of a. box, telling him that he would find there what he re- quired. The box. on being opened, was found to contain 1,900 sovereigns. The gold and silver plate which belongs to the Duke of Cumberland weighs some twelve tone, and the jewels are valued at £400,000. The Duke’s hereditary casket includes the famous pearls of Queen Cher- lotte (worth £140,000),whioh caused nearly twenty years’ lxtigetion between the Queen and the King of Hanover. Canadian Labor.â€"“ Sir John, what do you propose to do about these hard facts, discovered after careful investigation by the Legislative Committee of the Trades and Labor Council 7 Overaupply of men under free immigration, reducmion of wages as a consequence, and hard times generally â€"and all under the N. P. that was to pro- tect Labor, mind you !” - . 1 1 Ukuv uuuv. m-..“ Sir John.~â€"“ My dear horny-handed friend, What are facts to me? You can’t have read my late banquet speech or you would have known that everything is lovely in Canada under our beneficent protection poli_cy.” ..n ,, :L :_.| 1...; n. tunâ€".1 . Monopolist.â€"“ ’Course it is! Just ex- amine by bank account if you don’t believe it l”â€"â€"Grip. Kleptomaniacs of Another Kind. Does kleptomania only cover such trifles as handkerchieffl, gloves and bric-a-bmo? Who knows but that there may be klepto- maniacs who steal office, fame, and even the mantle of piety simply because they cannot help ib.?â€"Boston Globe. Will Know Better Same Day. First Ladyâ€"“ What an imperious, dicta- torial, arrogant man that Mr. l’ompus is 1” Second Ladyâ€"f“ X93 ; you know he has never been married.” Amelie Rives has dropped the name she made famous and calls herseif simply Amelie Chanler. General Lew Wallace has cleared $360,000 thus far from “ Ben Hur.” Abraham Lincoln was the tallest Presi- dent, 6 feet 4 inches ; Martin Van Buren the shortest, barely 5 feet 6 inches. Benja- min Harrison will be shorter still, his height being 5 feet 5 inches. Judge Charland gave a lengthy judg- ment yesterday in the Morrissette case, in which a girl of 19 changed from the Roman Catholic to the Protestant religion, and. voluntarily Went to and remained at the Grand Ligne Baptist Mission. He ordered that the girl should be restored to her father, and refused a delay of twenty-four hours to enable a. writ of appeal to be taken out and served. Policeman Seized by Bulldogs. Gossip About Notables. Facts and Fancies. “ Who: can a helpless female do ‘2" Rock the cradle and bake and brow. Or, if no cradle your fate afford, Book your brother’s wife’s for your board ; Or live in one room with an invalid cousin, Or sew shop shirts for a. dollar a dozen, Or please some men by looking sweet, 01' please him by giving him things to eat. 0r pl ease him by making. much advice, And thinking Whatever he does is nice, Visit the poor (under his supervision) ; Doctor the sick who can’t; pay a. physician ; Save men’s time by doing their praying, And other odd jobs there's no present pay in. But if you presume to usurp employments Reserved by them for their special enjoyments, Or if_ _they succeed when they knew you V wouldn’t: Or earn money fast when they said you couldn’t, 0r jearned to do things they’d proved were 7 above you. Yqu’Jl hurt their feelings and than they won‘t Explorer Stanley, it seems. has been having a good time in the great Central African wilds, albeit his journeyings are as yet a trifle mysterious. The present aspect of affairs in regard to Central Africa is, to say the least, a trifle ludicrous. The letter of Stanley to Tippo Tib, the ex-elave driver who has always been a friend to the intre- pid explorer, shows pretty conclusively that long after the outside public had sus- pected Tippo‘s loyalty, and had accused him of being privy to the murder of Bart- telot, the second-in-command of the relief expedition,the.most cordial relations existed between him and Stanley. That is one point cleared up. But the doings of Emin Bey yet remain a mystery. When Stan- ley started out, it was with the object of rescuing that European who had managed to retain control of a vast territory in the centre of the continent long after Gordon’s butchery at Khartoum. Then it was asserted that Emin was in imminent dan- ger, and that his only chance of escape lay in sending an expedition to him with “fighting supplies " and men. The expedi- tion went, and it has returned as it came, down the great river Congo, but no Emin accompanies it. That much-pitied indiâ€" vidual has, according to Stanley, all that he needs. He is living in luxury, and is apparently pretty much monarch of all he surveys. It looks as if he had refused to be saved from all this comfort, and the expedition to rescue him from his supposed perilous position has degenerated into a huge exploratory caravan. One would suppose that after the evidence thus ad- duced by Stanley, the white ruler of Gen- tral Africa would be taken at his word, and left alone to work out the great problem in which he is engaged, until such time, at any rate, as Stanley finds it convenient to ‘ return to civilization and report the progress which he made with the remarka- ble man, whose career is not even second, in point of romance, to that of the dead hero of Khartoum. But the would-be saviours of Emin increase. The latest is Mr. Stevens, the bicyclist, who achieved notoriety some time ago through his ac- complishment of a journey by wheel through many Eastern lands. He will try his hand at saving Emin, and at the same time endeavor to get at the true inwardness of the African slave trade. It can no longer be doubted that the traffic in human flesh is the one great obstacle to the extension of civilization and legitimate trade on the African continent, and even though it does look somewhat stupid for explorers to persist in trying to rescue a man who does ,,,,l, ,- My friend, he spoke of awoman face ; It puzzled me. and I aused to think. Hg gold of her qyespn mouph, n b‘ ¢ 2. H F o â€" - v~ - w Of prayer on her brow. and quick as wink I said : " Oh yes, bun you wrong her years. She‘s only a chxld, with faiths and fears That childhood fit. I telljheg nay ; “ The years are swift and sure, I trow ” (Quoth he). " You speak of the long ago.” once} strollgd in a, gardpn _spo_t. v And every flawâ€"effi’pmisetigfibad (So it seemed), fgr they, I wgta . Were mates of mine ; each bloom and bed, Their hours for sleep, their merry mood. The lives and deaths of the whole sweet brood, Were known to me ; it was my way To visit; them but yesterday. Spake one red rose, in a. language low “ We saw you last in the long ago." Egbering under thqllintel'yvigie, r _f ElivjviE’hVeE-oom ; ’twaa 9.11 the’ same : 1‘qu oakgmpress 1mg tnhe ,s‘helvesrsislitiql The window, small for the sunset flame, The book I loved on the table large ; I ope'd, and lo I in the yellow marge The leaf I placed was shrunk and gray. I swear it was green but yesterday I Then a. voice stole out of the sunset glow 2 “ You lived here, man, in the long ago." ’Tis the same old tale, though it comes to me By a. hundred paths of pain and glee, Till I guess the truth at last, and know Theta Yesterday is the Long Ago. love you not want to be rescued, the other part 0! Mr. Stevene’ mission, if intelligently car- ried out, may be fraught with important results. The very sweetest orange and richest is, the black or ruety coated fruit. Pick out the dingiest oranges in the box and you will get the best. Another way to choose oranges is by Weight. The heaviest are the best, because they have the thinnest skin and more weight of juice. Thick skin oranges are apt to be dry; they either weigh less because of having so much skin, or because of the poverty of the juice in these particular specimens. A slight freez- ing on the tree causes this condition in otherwise fine fruit. The “kid-glove " oranges are the two varieties of small fruit grown in Florida from stocks respectively brought from China and from Tangiers. They are called “ Mandarin ” and “ Tan- gerine.” They may be eaten without soil- inga kid glove. because the skin is loose and the little “ gores” or pockets of juice come apart very cleanly and without break- ing. All the above applies to Florida. oranges. The Jamaica and Havana oranges are much paler yellow, and their juice is usually of more acid quality. Sfiéfiwhs a; girl just'yesterday." ODD DEVELOPMENTS IN AFRICA. Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled and the infir- mities of age not yet begun, as we see that the shadows which are at morning and evening so large almost entirely disappear at midday. A Victim of Weather. Madder than the defeated candidate is he who laid in a. fur overcoat for a hard winter and found the coat harder to baar than the winter.â€"Toronto News. From recent srchwological discoveries it appears that the Romans, at the height of their civilization and splendor, had no system of street lighting. No trees of any- thing of the kind has been discovered. George Washington, of St. Louis, was grantefl a divorce from his wife last week. One allegation in 1115 testimony was that his wife once chased him over a quarter section of land with v. hatchet. " These books. doctor, are my best friends, And with them for hours I commune ; The spirits of the authors come To loiter in the dim old room! " A smile the doctor‘s thin lips stirred, As one 1: one the books be shut ; “I notice, r5. Gray," he said, “ That many volumes are uncut." She looked at him with that shy glance Which such a. charm to beauty lends, And with a. little laugh she said : “ Ah, sir, I never cut my friends." ~It is an old belief that an animal that goes into winter quarters fat is half win. flared. Perhaps there are none of our ficmestio animals to which this saying is‘ more applicable than to sheep. Equal to the Occasion. Happiest Period in Life. To Choose an Orange. Women’s Work. Yesterday. -â€".Toumal of Woman‘s Work‘ Rman E. BURTON.