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The barkeeper took his American dollar and handed him a Mexican dollar in change. A Mexican dollar at that time was worth only 85 cents in United States money. There were rumors of trouble between the two republics, growing out of Indian raids, and the pursuit of the robbers from one country into the other. A Mexi- can dollar was only worth 85 cents in Texas, and the United States dollar was worth but 85 cents in Mexico. It was early in the morning. He had nothing to do with the rest of the clay, or with the rest of his life for that matter. The Mexican eagle on his last remaining coin suggested something to his desperate fancy, and he wandered across to El Paso dcl Norte on the Mexican side. He bought a drink of mescal there for 15 cents, laid down his Mexican dollar and received an American dollar in change, equivalent to 85 cents in Mexican money. He looked at the coin and an idea struck him. It appealed to his speculative humor. He reâ€" traced his steps to the American side, walked into a saloon, called for a drink of whiskey, paid for it with his solitary American dollar, which he had re- ceived in change on the other side and got a Mexican dollar in change. This he promptly carried over the line, bought a drink of mescal and got aUnited States dollar in change. Then he got to thinking. Here was the situation. He had precisely the same capital he started with an hour before and had distributed 60 cents‘ worth of liquor through his system in the way of dividends. The whiskey and mescal was gone. It was no further use to anybody. The visible supply of exhilarating beverage had been absolutely diminished to that extent. Ae had bought it at the market price. He had paid for it in cash. He had all his original capital still in his pocket. True, he had contributed the labor of walking back and forth from the Mexican to the Texan side, and vice versa, but that, as he shrewdly decided, was non- produotive labor, so far as the interests of the public were concerned. It earned nothing, for it added nothing to the supply of anything. He might have walked back and forth until the river ran dry without anybody being the better off. Here was a chance to get even with the section of the country which had indirectly been the cause of his bankruptcy. He walked back to the Texan side, bought another drink, got a Mexican dol- lar in change, went back to the Mexican town, got another drink and a United States dollar in change. He kept it up all day. He picked up a stick and out a notch in it for every drink, as the old In- dian fighters used to keep a score of the scalps they took. He kept it up pretty steadily all that day until closingup time, and set at it again the next day as soon as he could see. He waxed enthusiastic over his speculation, giving a war-whoop at every notch in the stick. But at length he got to wondering who was losing all this money. Apparently not the bar-keepers. They were getting the market rate for their liquors. Surely not he, for he was holding his own. The problem bothered him. He was naturally a curious man. ‘Ihe more he thought of it the more he drank, the more his head swam around with perplexity and the more the subject in ques- tion became complicated with extraordin- ary things which reminded him of the managerie he had gone to see when he was a boy. At length, when he had consumed $5.05 worth of Texas whiskey, and $5 worth of Mexican mescal, he died in front of the saloon where he got the first drink and with a silver dollar in United States coin in his pocketâ€"died of wondering who hid lost the $10.05 worth of two kinds of liquor which he had consumed, although the local coroner said it was delirium trcmens. But neither the coroner nor his jury explained who lost the $10 05. and that’s What I want to know.â€"â€"Pittsburg Timex. A Conundrum Which Sent One Man to His Grave. Once there was a man who had mis- fortune. The further he went the worse he fared. When he struck ElI’aso he bod just one round white silver dollar left to his name, and he went and bought a drink with it. 7 _ __ Five Hundred shots Fired in Fifteen Min- utesâ€"A Large Number of Persons Wounded. A New Orleans despateh says : Between 2 and 3 o‘clock yesterday morning a. train carrying a. colored excursion arrived at the Gouldsboro depot from Baton Rouge. A large number of colored men and women were near the depot waiting for the train. As the train neared the depot one of the excursioniate attempted to get off and fell to the ground. Some unknown person amid "Look at the black wâ€"J’ when the negro drew a. pistol and fired four or five shots in rapid eucoeasion, one of which struck a White man. William Mills, a. brother of one of the Gretna police, in the nose and lodged in the back of the neck. Then the shooting became general, some four or five hundred shots being fired in less then fifteen minutes. The above ac- count of the trouble is from the police of Gretna. A terrible panic occurred. Women and children ran in all directions, shouting and screaming, leaving dishes, baskets, hats, and shoes, etc. Ed. Levy, a colored man, living in Algiers, was shot in the left arm and a colored woman named Fleming was fatally shot in the back. John Rainy, the superintendent of the Algiers do Gretna Railroad, who was about two squares away with two cars waiting for the excur- sionI states the panic caused by the rapid discharge of firearms was dreadful. He did not know what caused the trouble, but the cars on their way down to Algiers were fired into, and one of the bullets passed through a dashboard. Mr. Rainy stated that several times he and his drivers were in imminent danger of losing their lives. Ben Watkins, colorea, aged 70, residing in Gonldsboro, was shot while lying in his bad at his home this morning by some un- known party. who fired through the win- dow. The bnll struck him on the right arm, hand and breast, and left hand, in- flicting severe wounds. Watkins says he knows nothing of the trouble. The Algiers fire department was called out at 4.30 mm. by an alarm of fire. They tound a large number of men armed with muskete, etc., and a negro church on fire. There was no water at hand and the church was consumed. Mr. Newkomerâ€"Mr. Lasmb, I have been recommenfled by Mr. Wells, the broker, to purchase my meat from you. He says you not very liberally with him and give him good meat. You are acquainted with him, are you not? Mr. Lambâ€"Oh, yes, but nofi as imimately as I once was. ” How is that ‘I " o ‘Becnuse I don‘t see him as often as when he paid me cash." Fond of SunfloWers. It is said that rats are so fond of sun- flower seeda that they will, if plenty, flock into the wire cage kind of a trap in such quantity as to nearly fill it. But they should be fed awhile on the seed before introducing the trap. A Serious Case. Mrs. Briakeâ€"Johnny, d the doctor call while I was out ? Little Johnny (stopping his play)â€"â€"Yea’m. He felt my pulse an’ looked at my tongue, and shook his head and said it was a very serious case, and he left this prescription and said he’d call again before night. Mrs. Briekeâ€"Gté'oious me! VIt wasn’t you I sent him to see; it was the baby. WHO LOST THE MONEY? ANOTHER RACE BIOT. Almost Strangers. Strikers. A Chicago despatch says : The Jos. Huntington arrived here 10-day en route nrem the Illinois mining district to his Domain New York. He said : The situa- tion in the mining district is unepeskably distressing. Hunger and disease are abroad, and death is desolating the homes of the hopeless victims of this unnatural struggle. It would be hard to exaggerate the horrors which I have witnessed during my week’s trip through the coal region. It is bad enough everywhere I went, but it is worse at Spring Valley than elsewhere. But even there the poverty-stricken inhabitants are not like the poor I am used to seeing in New York. There is no whining. People show intelligence and pride. Even hunger has not, dehaecd their feelings as one might expect. I am used to scenes of want, but what I saw at Spring Valley was more piti- ful than anything I ever witnessed before. The cottages are nice and are surrounded by pretty lawns and gardens, but the awful poverty Within was shocking. Sickness is increasing and the doctor told me the people were so enfeebled by long privation and anxiety that an epidem- ic might break out at any moment. Busi- ness is utterlydeed. Merchants are giving their goods away. The people go to the drug stores for medicines and the druggists sup- ply them as far as may be, but take no account of the purchases on their books. Despair is written everywhere, but there is determination also in the feces of the hun- gry men and they will not yield. The award of the Arbitration Committee was a clean endorsement of the strikers‘ refusal to accept the terms of the operators. The outlook is black enough. The mine owners profit whether the mines are operated or not. When production is lively and values rise, they sell lots at a. hs-nfisorne advance. The miners build houses, and then hard times come, wages are cut, a strike or look- out results, the operators repossess them- selves of the miners‘ homes, and in due time another wave of prosperity rolls up, and again the operators reap a rich reward in advancing; land values." The Irish Informer Said to Have Been in London. A London cable says : Jim MoDermott, Who made his home in Brooklyn for many years, who has been denounced as an in- former by Irishmen all over the world, whose death in various shapes has been announced nearly a dozen times, and for the information of Whose whereabouts Mr. Henry Labouohere offered £50 during the sitting of the Parnell Commission, left London to-day on an early morning train. He had been in London a week. He took no pains to seclude himself, and last night informed your correspondent that he was afraid of no one, and that the heaviest weapon he carried was a latch key. This he carried in his trousers pocket attached to a silver chain, alter the English fashion. In the Illinois Blining District An McDermott never looked more prosp=r- ous nor more contented than last night, while he sat at one of the small tables with which the smoking room of one of Lon- don’s principal hotels is lavishly furnished. He was one of a party of six, five of Whom were Americans. The sixth might have been a native of Scotland or the North of Ireland, but he had very little brogue. Excepting his upper lip, his face was smoothly shaven. He wore a small sandy mustache. His hair, also sandy, was out reasons.ny close and was plentiful. His face was fresh- colored rather than florid. His attire smacked of the world of sport. It was of Scotch goods, a rather biggish check, and was fashionably made. In his scarf he worea large cameo pin; on his head a brown Derby. His age would be guessed at from 40 to 45. His movements were quick and his air youthful rather than middle-aged, though his manner was per- fectly composed. This is Jim MoDermott. He was perfectly at home, though he had known only one of the party for more than thirty minutes, and to only one was be known as Jim McDermott; for his single acquaintance,a New Yorker, had intro- duced him to the others of the party under an assumed name. This, it should be said, was done without McDermott‘s connivance, and Red Jim informed me afterwards that it would not have bothered him at all had he been introiuced as McDermott. as he thought many had forgotten him, while many more believed him dead. A Farmer Fires His Barn and Then Leaps 1 Into the Burning Mass. A New York despatch says: The town 1 of Paradise, near the Blue Mountain, in New Jersey, has been the scene of a dread- ful tragedy which has excited the horror of the country people for many miles around. The town is a remote one and the news travelled slowly. Philip Heinic‘ale, a well- to»do German farmer, has for some time past made threats that he would burn the town, but little heed was paid to him, as it was not believed he would carry out his threat. The other day he went to his large barn, in which was stored all his summer harvest, so that it was filled to bursting, and kindled a fire at the four corners. The barn was soon blazing and rearing, while the flames and smoke shot high in the air, showing for miles around. Some of his neighbors wanted to put out the fire, but with a gesture he refused their aid and they could do nothing but standidly gazing at a distance, for the flames were so intense that a close view of the fire was uncomfort- able. Suddenly they were horrified at see- ing Heinickle deliberately throw himself into the flames when they were at their l height. Nothing could be done to prevent ‘ his terrible act as no one was near enough. When the flames went down and the em- bers had cooled, so that a. search among the ruins was possible, his charred and half consumed body was found among the em bers several hours later. Miss Chiffâ€"Would you believe it ? Old Mt. Grump, who is thought so reserved, told me last night that he was 1!. believer in first impressionfi‘ Miss KEenanâ€"Why, don‘t you know, he‘s a dealer in etchings. The immense sum of 016,000 was spent for the single item of Wine at the Centen- nial banquet in New York city. Richard Buaae, the chief steward of the Hoffman House, said that not since the feast of Belehazzar has so much Wine been drunk as on the occasion of the Centennial ball and banquet. ~Eastern Manâ€"I do business in New York, but I live in the suburbs. Do you live in the suburbs, too? Chicago Manâ€" The suburbs of Chicago 7 Great snakes ! Do you take me for a frontiersman ? VOL XII HUNGER AND DISEASE A HORRIBLE DEATH. J l 301 BRCDEBMOT 1'. Talking Shop. and despatehed to the strikers” headquar- ters, and also to the general managers of railroads, shipping companies and others specially interested : “ The Joint Commit- tee have decided to adept the following conditions for extra labor at the decks under their control, the 5d. rate per hour, with 6d. per hour overtime, to apply to all labor not piecework, but men taken on be- fore noon, if discharged by the Dock Company, to receive not less than 23. The present contract work to be converted into piecework as far and as soon as practica- ble, under which the men will be paid not less than (id. per hour, with 8d. an hour overtime, and divide the surplus, if any, between them all, the payments being made to the men under supervision of the dock officials. The hours of overtime shall be at the docks and uptown Warehouses from 8 pm. to 8 11.111. The committee will use their best endeavors to obtain from the Government a prolongation of the Customs hours, which, if granted, will have theefieet of extending the time during which pay- ment may be earned.” The dock companies and wharfingers do not pull together. The representatives of the wharfingers who attended the confer- ence did not endorse the issuing of the manifesto. On the contrary, they opposed its terms. Mt. Lniore and another Whart- inger withdrew from the conference be- cause of the action taken. The wharfingers, as has been stated, have practically en- dorsed the strikers in their demands, and to-day they brought pressure to bear on the dock directors to induce them to settle the strike as quickly as possible. They represented that their business and that of the entire shipping interests of London were being paralyzed and permanently in- jured, and immense losses were being suffered. They further made it known that unless the strike was ended at once they would attempt to operate their thrvos independently of the dock com- panies, and, as iar as possible, would handle ship cargoes from the river. The wharfingers, at a largely attended meeting, decided upon a compromise which was submitted to the dock committee. It was rejected. The difference between the dock companies and the wharfingers is as fol- lows : The latter load and unload vessels in mid-stream or at the wharves. The former unload ships at the docks and place return cargoes on the docks, but do not load. The ships’ strikers have intimated their willingness to agree to the terms pro- posed by the wharfingers, but are appar- ently determined not to knuckle under to the dock companies. The large crowd of strikers. shippers and others who were congregated in (rent of the dock-house made a grand rush to read this manifesto the instant the copies were posted, and for a while great confusion occurred. It was evident that the general expectation was that the notice was an announcement that the directors had oapitulated, and great disappointment was expressed as soon as it was discovered that such was not the case. One striker was so angry that he reached out and with an oath tore down the notice he had just read. Hot words followed, and s. free fight seemed imminent. As the crowd learned the contents of the manifesto, many expressions of dia- gust and indignation were uttered. One striker voiced the general sentiment when he staid: “ That is. not as good as we had before. It meanfi iourpence less per day." John Burns, head of the stnkem, said : ” Those are not concessions. They are nominal. If the men accepted they would find themselves in the old hole.” A last Thursday night’s London cable says : The London and India docks Joint Committee, after being in consultation the greater part of the afternoon, declined to concedoihe one remaining point at issue with regard to the strikers’ pay, 6d. instead of 5d. pet hour, and issued the following manifesto, which was immediately posted up on each side of the dock-house entrance The Conference Leaves Matters Much as They Were. A last night‘s London cable says : The dock strikers played what they consider their trump card to-day. They issued an appeal for a general strike in London on Monday, unless the dock directors end the strike at noon to-morrow by yielding all the demands of the strikers. The com- mittees of the strikers have placed copies of the appeal in possession of the employees of all large establishments. rThe dock directors have also been furnished with a copy. One of the dock directors, who had read the copy, said there was nothing for the directors to do. They would not pay sixpence an hour, and if a general strike were inaugurated that was the lookout of the strikers. Both sides were surprised to-day by the action of Cardinal Manning. He called upon the dock directors when they were in session. He said afterwards he supposed the subject of conver- sation would be made public, but if the dock directors refused to state What was said he could not do so. He gave the impression that he was on the side of the strikers, and it seems reasonable that the deck directors would quickly make public his remarks if he were on their side. There is also an impression that he may cause an appeal for peaceful methods to be made to the strikers from the Catholic pulpite on Sunday. A prominent shipowner said : “ I under- stand that Cardinal Manning addreeeed the directorate at some length, representing how greatly the commerce of London was being interfered with, and how much the peace of the metropolis was being threat- ened, and ended by urging them to submit to the btrikere‘ demands, which he believed were not extlavagant." Mennwhlle theveb'ipping interests are suf- fegpg grfatly. The Seaman’s and Wharf Lnborers’ Union at Brisbane, Australia, sent a cable despatch here to-day, saying employment would be furnished there to 250 of the striking London dockman. R. A. GUNN, M.D., Dean, and Professor of Surgery 0! the United States Medical College; Editor of “Medical Tribune”; Author of “ Gunn's New Improved Handâ€" Book of Hygiene sna Domestic Medicine,” in referring to the use of Warner’s Safe Cure in a case of Bright’s disease, said over his own signature: “I was greatly sur- prises to observe a. decided improvement within a month. Within four months, no tube casts could be found, and only a. trace of albumen; and, as he expressed it, he felt perfectly well. After this demon- stration of its power, I prescribed it in full doses in both aouto and chronic Bright’s disease, with the most satisfactory results.” WHARI‘INGERS AND DOCK COMPANIES THE LONDON STRIKE. RICHIVIOND HILL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1889. Isaac Amsden, of Cuba, Who is a Greatâ€" Grzuidfzuher and was Kererltly Married for the fourth Time. A Friendship, N. Y., despatch says: Matrimony has apparently no terrors for Isaac Amsden, who lives near Cuba, Alle- gany county, the State. He is an octo- genarian bridegroom. He is nearly 83 years of age and has recently married for the fourth time. Mr. Amsden is a fine- looking, well-preserved old gentleman. His bride is Miss Victoria Renwiok, who is barely half his age and becomes by mar- riage at one step a great-grandmother. Mr. Amsden was born at Corning, Mass, on September 20th,1806. He was one of the pioneers of Allegany county, having settled near Cuba while yet a young man. Industry brought wealth, and his bride will rank among the richest women in the country. He is a Republican, and all his sons and grandsons belong to the same party. While yet a young man Mr. Amsden was married to Cynthia Webster, by whom he had four children. After her death he was married to Mary Ann McIntosh, and two children were the fruit of their union. His third wife was Louisa Bishop, by. whom he had three children. making nine children in allâ€"five sons and four daugh- ters. He has thirteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. One of his daughters was murdered some years ago and the family name became much more widely known in consequence. To each one of his sons Mr. Amsden gave $1,000 to start them in business for themselves, and all are living and doing well. Miss Renâ€" wick, the bride, was born in Cuba, this State. She is a fine-looking woman and has many friends. A Dublin cable says : United Ireland in a leading editorial informs the Radicals that the position of the Irish party regard- ing the project for the endowment of a Catholic College is the same as when it squelched the scheme for an underhand treaty with Rome sought to be negotiated by Lord Salisbury and the Irish Union Bishops, who now stood ready to sell Ireâ€" land to Balfour fora mass of pottage if they only had the country to sell. The Nation- alists would welcome any genuine effort to settle the Irish question made by Parlia- ment above board, and would try to make it genuine. There their position ends. They do not ask, nor do they expect, assist- ance from the Radicals. They fight for a great principle which the Radicals also endorse. The question is one which should be settled by an Irish Parliament, but wanting that, the Nationalists must be content in the meantime to take what re- forms an English Parliament offers. A London cable says : It is understood that the Government and the Catholic: Hierarchy were in negotiation for some.time with reference to the University‘ scheme. Mr. Parnell was cognizant of the project, but the Ulster: mnmlye‘» of Parlia~ ment were completely surprised by the announcement of the scheme. The latter assert that the Government intended to ignore them. Mr. Chamberlain says there is nothing between the Unionists and the Government beyond a. general feeling that the question of higher education in Ireland ought to be dealt; with. He is not aware that any de. tails of the scheme have been settled. One of Barnum’s Arabs Falls a Victim to Charms of the Snake Charmer. An Ottawa daspatch of Thursday night says : Ali Bin Debs, the volatile Arab who twirls the rifle with such vim and dexterity in Barnum’s show besides showing an apti- tude for other entertaining feats of skill, has fallen a victim to the magnetism of Miss Nollie Hamilton, the snake charmer, in the same aggregation. Ali knows as much about English as the Prescott county school children do, and Miss Hamilton’s knowledge of Arabic is equally slender, but love has an universal language, and the two try its agency to understand each other. The result was that Rev. Mr. Wing- field, of this city, had two singularly mated callers yesterday. 'Ihe dress of one was chiefly noticeable for a showy turban and baggy trousers, while his fair companion was attired in a sweet Broadway hat and tailor-made gown. The rev. gentleman knew no obstacle why the ceremony should not be performed. Nobody forbade the banns, and the rite was accordingly pro- ceeded with. An interpreter was present to explain to the love-stricken Moor the important parts of the ceremony. Ali pro- fessed to be a Christian. Dr. Bernardo Sent to Jail. In the Court of Appeal on Tuesday, Dr. Bernardo appealed against the decision of Queen‘s Bench granting attachment for contempt of court in not producing a child named Martha Tigh, who had been taken from her mother‘s home at Bristol, and placed in one of the appellant’s homes. Dr. Barnardo made arrangements for sending the child to Canada, and when the mother demanded its return he handed it over to a lady who took it to France. Steps hav- ing been taken in the English Courts to obtain the return of the child, Dr. Barnardo wrote to the lady, who refused to return it because she believed that it had been ill- treated by its natural guardians. The Master of the Rolls in delivering judgment said Dr. Barnardo, in his zeal for his own benevolent objects, had overlooked the rights of the people and the law of the country. Having done so he must take the consequences, and he was accordingly com- mitted to prisonâ€"Altringham Advertiser. A Shanghi cable says: North China and Japan have been visited by a. series of typhoone of almost unprecedented violence. The number of junks and lives that have been lost through inundatione at Wongchow and Ningpo is enormous. According to the latest intelligence from Japan too, the number of persons who have lost their lives by drowning in consequence of floods is at the lowest estimate five thousand. Ten Tons of Molten Metal Explode. A last Friday night’s Pittsburg despatch says : An explosion of hot metal occurred in the Homestead steel works of Carnegie, Phipps & 00. this afternnon, killing Andrew Kebbler and another workman, and seriously injuring seven others, two. it is thought, fatally. The explosion was caused by the upsetting of a. ladle contain- ing ten tons of hot metal. The University Scheme :Intended to Weaken Parnell. â€"Doctorâ€"â€"-How would you like some animal food ? Invalidâ€"Animal food ? Well, I don’t care for any hay or grass, but I guess if I could worry down a little rye I‘d feel better. A BRIDEGROOM AGED 83. Chinese Typhouns and Floods. A ROMANTIC MATCH. BALFOUR'S COUP. In spite of the early hour there were about 2,000 people on the square besides the authorities whose duty it was to see the execution carried out. While the execu- tioner was making his arrangements Noel recognized him and said, “ Ah! well, Jean Marie, you are going to kill me. You will have another to kill before long. You ought to offer me a last drink before I die. I will be the first man to die in this way here; would to God I were the last.” The executioner was more nervous than the condemned man. and placed the latter too far forward on the block. “ My neck is too far forward,” said Noel, “you will strike my shoulders. I beg of you don’t be long, and above all don't miss your stroke.” The executioner was over a min- ute getting the man in the proper position, and Noel was about to speak once more when the executioner touched the lever and the knife came down on Noel’s neck. The head was severed from the neck but re- mained hanging by a piece of skin, which the executioner had to cut with his pocket knife. When the head fell in the basket convulsive contractions were noticed for a moments-Montreal Gazette. Enfozcing an Old Statute Against the Jewish Religion. A Thursday's Montreal despatch says: Arather curious point has arisen before the Montreal courts over the relusal of Judge Pagnuelo, 9. Superior Court judge, to grants petition from Louis Aronson. a Jewish citizen, for leave to establish a new Jewish synagogue in this city. It appears that under a statute of King George 111., distinguishing between the Jews and Gentiles, which has never been repealed, ‘Jews are required, in order to have a legally recognized corporation, to secure authority from the courts on the applies... tiou 0: ton Jewish British subjects. A here is, however, another modus operandi, which is to obtain a special charter from the Provincial Legislature. Of the two ways the latter is the more expensive. The congregation which has asked for legal authority is a branch of a Jewish order known as the “ Sons of Benjamin," and has been in existence about four years. It numbers about 75 members. It husa burying lot for deceased members, and as registration books cannot be issued to them until it is alegally constituted corporation it labors under certain disadvantages. There are three other Jewish congrega- tions in the city recognized by law, the Portuguese, the German, and " Temple Emanuel.” The first two are under the old British statute, the last named under a Provxncial charter. Execution of n Murderer at St. Pierre- Miquelon. A private despatch was received in the city yesterday from St. Pierre de Miquelon giving an account of the execution of one Noel. a French fisherman, who was con- demned to death some months ago for the atrocious murder of an elderly man named Coupart, whom he cut to pieces after the style of Jack the Ripper. There was no guillotine and no executioner in the place, and the authorities were much embarrassed as to how the execution was to be carried out. The Privy Council had decided that justice must take its course as an example was deemed necessary, but the Governor was unable to find a contractor who would undertake the erection of a guillotine or a man to work it and was obliged to tele- graph to the French Government. A guil- lotine was sent out by way of New York. Saturday last was fixed for the execution, and at 3 a.m. on that day Noel was aroused and told to prepare for death. One hour afterwards the condemned man was carried out, bound hand and foot, and driven in a carriage to Courbet square, where the execution was to take place. In the tournament for the Scottish chess championship Mr. James Marshall, a native of Crieff, has proved the vicmr. The death is announced of Judge Gillies, of New Zealand. He was the eldest son of Mr. John Gillies, of Rothesay. The Town Council of Linlithgow have resolved to present the freedom of the burgh to Lord Hopetoun prior to his departure for Victoria. Mr. George Rutherford, a. prominent Ber- wickahire agriculturist, died at Printonan farm, Coldsn‘eam, on the 7th inst, at the age of 51 years. It has been decided at the British War Office that the 2nd Battalion of the King’s Own Scottish Box-deters, which has been in Egypt 5 little more than a year, shall be sent on to India. Seven natives of Scotland are among the framers of the Constitution 0! the new State of Washington. They outnumber all the other foreign-born members of the Constitution Committee combined. The Duchess of Portland was on the 8th inst. presented with her husband‘s portrait by the tenantry on the Portland estates in Ayrshire. About 500 persons were enter- tained at luncheon at Fullerton House. By an accident which occurred on the 9th inst. in the malt store of Robert Hutch- ison & Co., flour millers and maltsters, Kirkcaldy. Fifeshire, two man, named Edward Kinsman and William Steel, were killed, and another, named George Ritchie, had a. narrow escape. A tablet of white marble has been erected in St. Mary‘s Cathedral, Huntly street, Aberdeen, to the memory of the late Right Rev. John Macdonald, Bishop of Aber- deen. The Very Rev. Dean Stopani, V. G., purposes placing a. similar monument to the Right Rev. James Kyle, D. D., the prede- cessor of Bishop Macdonnld. The Loch Katrine works, which have supplied Glasgow with water for more than thirty years, are now found to beinada- quate to the wants of the city, so they are being duplicated, at ucoet of about two millions sterling, and when the work is complete one hundred millions of gallons will be drawn from the lake every day. Sir James Watson, ex-Provost of Glas- gow, died on the 14th inst, at the advanced age of 89. He was the first to introduce stockbroking into Glasgow, took an active part in the railway movement. and was an energetic philanthropist. He entered the Town Council in 1863, was mafie Provost in 1866, and was knighted for his services to the city in 1874. An inveterate tobacco smoker, of New- burgh, New York, died last week from the effects of nicotine poisoning, a poet-mortem examination revealing the fact that so thoroughly had his system become impreg- nated with the poison that the stomach and other organs were unable to perform their functions. UNDER THE GUILLOTINE. A RELIC 0F DARK DAIS. Scottish News Notes. Death from Nicotine. WHOLEN01,622 NO. 11. The first car of new wheat was shipped from Cartier by railway for Winnipeg to- day. Winnipeg’s death rate during August wag 15.4} per >1,_000_inhabitnnts_. _ Geo. Stfevel has been awarded the con- tract for the construction of 30 miles on the Logg Lake 58’: Regiga Rail_w§.y._ The weather to-day and during the past two weeks has been most favorable for her- vesting, and in consequence nearly all the grain has been out and over one-half stacked. In most districts threshing has commenced. New wheat has been mar- keted at several points and is a splendid sample. In Morden district, where the crop sufifered most from want of rain in June, it is now estimated the yield will be 25 bushels to the acre. At Portage la Prairie 28 bushels per acre is a careful estimate. One farmer at the latter place from 11 bushels of wheat sown thrashed 235 bushels, and many fields will yield from 40 to 50 bushels per acre. Samples show that this season’s grain is by far the best ever raisedin Mani- toba. The kernel being very plump and the color bright, it is now pretty certain that estimates of over a month will be fully re- alized, viz., that the wheat crop in Mani- toba and Assiuaboia together will be 12,- 000,000 bushels. Mr. Somerset, Superintendent of Educa- tion for Manitoba, in an address takes ground against the abolition of the Separate Schools on the ground of expediency, although he admits he is opposed to their principle. He thinks they should be brought to a higher standard. He also opposes, from experience elsewhere, the proposal to do away with the Board of Education. He regards this address as a valedictory, as he expects to be legislated out of office. A separator was Hurned yesterday While threshing on Mann Bros’. farm at Portage la. Prairie ; 1036. $1,000. Rourke & Cass have received the con- tract for the construction of the new Northern Pacific roundhouse at a cost of $45,000. The Northern Pacific, having failed to purchase the Northwest Central or make arrangements with the Manitoba North- western, has decided, under the General Railway Act of the Province, to buila immediately 50 miles of road from Portage la Prairie Westward, tapping the section of country lying between Brandon and Rapid City. Convict No. 34 escaped from Stoney Mountain Penitentiary last nights and has nogyet beer} captqrcd. The regular {rain service will be inaugu- rated over the Northern Pacific to Portage la. Prairie on Monday. The railway mail clerks of this country haveorganized a. branch association with Mr. J. G. Moore as President. The daughter of Lord Selkirk, oi Rupert’s Land fame, will visit Manitoba. next month, and a. garden party will be held in her honor. J. Buchanan, of Selkirk, has gone to the States. It is said financial troubles caused big gudfiden departpre. ‘ ‘ The market for new Wheat opened at 60 cents per bushel. There was a considera- ble quantity of wheat, grade number one hard. In is said Attorfiey-GenerEl Martin will be Minister of Education under the new “3’9.”ng The buildings of the Williams Manufac- turing Company, located on the Canadian Pacific track, were destroyed by fire today. The loss Will principally fall on Mr. J. H. Ashdown, the owner of the building, as there was not much stock on the premises at the time. A last Wednesauy night’s North Adams, Mass, despstch says: The cutters in the shoe shops of W. D. Cady & Got, the Sampson Manufacturing 00.. Whitman, Cunody & 00., and N. L. Millard are on strike, claiming the prices are not uniform. The strikers have caused much trouble in the shops during the last six months. As all the other help are supplied with steak from the outters’ rooms the result of this strike will be disastrous unless soon set- tled. There are 1,500 hands employed in the shoe industry here. Brazier, the Montana murderer, has gone back to stand his trial, having consented to waive extradition proogedingg. _ A Paris cable says: The Comte de Paris has issued an electoral manifesto. Be declares his object to snatch the power from the hands of an oppressive faction. He counsals the union of the Conservatives and tolerance of the Boulangists, whose programme of revision, he says, will release France from servitude and restore religious peace. He expresses the belief that the Imperialists will not refuse to support a strong Republic, and appeals for assistance of all those who wish to found an honest Republic. Uncle Sam Coin-ta 'fheh- Acquaintance. A Friday night’s Washington special says : In consequence of irequent armci attacks made by highway robbers upon the United States mail in the Western States and Territories, the Postmaster-General has offered a reward of $1,000 for the arrest and conviction of any person found guilty of making an armed attack upon any stage coach or any railway train having the mail ‘ in transit. Ellie Coal Oil Cam Scores. A Thursday night's Denver deepateh says : At Sopris last night Jae. Danoohy’e 8-year-old daughter started to kindle a fire with oil. The can exploded, burning the girl to death and fatally burning the mother, who attempted to save her child. This makes fifteen lives lost in this State during the past month by explosion of oil cans. T. GRANGER STEWART, M. D., F. R. S. E., Ordinary Physician to H. M., the Queen, in Scotland, Professor of Practice of Physic in the University of Edinburgh, writes: " The arteries are sclerosed and atheroma- taus in the advanced stagtsof the inflamma- tory and in the cirrhotic but not so small in the waxy disease. In that affection the small vessels in other parts are frequently the seat of waxy degeneration.” From this it will be seen that in the three forms of kidney disease classed Bright‘s disease, the arteries suffer changes, and it matters not whether they undergo sclerotic, atheroms- tous or waxy change, they are so weakened as to endanger rupture under any increased pressure. This explains the frequency of appoplexy and paralysis, and as clearly demonstrates that the only preventive of these disastrous ruptures of the blood vessels is the timely use of Warner‘s Sale Cure to keep the kidneys in a healthy con- dition. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry died yesterday. Leather Butchch on Strike, MANITOBA MATTERS. Another Manifesto. 'eefi With hearts of oak, through storm and smoke andflame, Columbia‘s seamen long; Havchbravdy fought and nobly wrought 1.1130 s ame Oh] this we claim, that never shame may ride On any Wave with thee, Then ship of State whose timbers greet abide The home of liberty ; For so our gallant Yankee tars, Of daring deeds and honored scars, Will make the Banner of the Stars The Banner of the See. I lay. You brought to my mind such a. soul-soothing train I Granddaddy Greybeard, come back sodn again The Banner of the Sea; (By Homer Greene.) [This is the song for which John Boyle O'Reilly awarded the prize of $100 otlered by the Sewn: ton, Pm, Truth, for the best; American sea. son I The Scranton Truth now ofiere a prize of $1 for the best musical setting of the words offered before November 1, 1889. Harrison Millard will be tho judge in the contest] By winqengl wave _the sailor brave has fared Columbia’s men were they who then went down; Not knight nor kings of old, But brighter far their laurels are than crown Or coronet of gold ; Our sailor true, of any crew, Would give the last long breath he drew 'Tl‘o cheer the old red, white and blue, The Bauer of the Bold l Might never dull their song ; They sing the country of the free, The glory of the rolling sea, The starry flag of liberty, The Banner of the Strong ! We ask but this, and not amiss the claim, A fleet to ride the wave, A navy great to crown the State with fame, Though foes or tompests rave ; Then as our fathers did of yore, VVo’ll sail our ships to sway shore, On everypcoan Wind will spar St. Loui4 Working Girls Begin a Crusade Against All Sin. The Mongolian shirt manipulator and the American working girls are engaged in deadly war in St. Louis. The Chinese population has increased so rapidly and their laundries have increased so continu- ously, that the American laundry business has been almost ruined. The Americans formed a combination, and by agitation and newspaper aid have drawn the popu- lation of the city into the fight. There was a big parade of the Americans the other night, and the transparencies carried were designed to make a Chinaman blush. One that was cheered along the route had this: " American girls first; Chinamen never.” Another had this startling piece of information : “ What was found at the Chinese laundry, No. 16 North Ninth street. Ask the police and they will tell you. A white woman stupefied by opium." Further down was this statement : “ Those who patronize Chinese laun- dries keep honest girls from work." Oliver H. C. Ross, the president of the association, in speaking about the warfare about to be inaugurated against the celestials, said : “ We are confident of the success of the movement because of our faith in the American people’s sense of jus- tice. I am sure the people of St. Louis do not realize fully what they are doing when they patronize Chinese laundries. and I believe that when the matter is fairly presented to themI as we propose to do, that the Chinese will find no profit in the laundry business in St. Louis, and that 2,500 honest girls. who are anxious to secure employment, but who cannot get it, will be able to get work at which they can earn good wages. There are in St. Louis 900 Chinamen, and each one does about the work of three girls. That means that if there were no Chinese laundries in St. Louis 2,500 girls would be earning $57 and $8 a week in the laundry business.” boils: 7â€"" m" " '_‘_' ~â€"" _'_ u m“ And tfhose who laughed loudest and joined in the nu Are buried away from the light of the sun. Granddaddy Groybeard, when early to-day. Opprgss‘d with sud thoughts in my hammocki Grenddaddy Greybeard, so long, long ago. When a. wee girl, we met often, you know ; . I held you up lightlyâ€"I thought: you were mueâ€" And asked the old question, with wonder-wide v muslin W --â€"~â€" ~â€"â€" ~â€"â€"oâ€"- â€"--â€"-â€" Oh 1 those were the days, when 9.11 nature could please; My frigmda were the butterflies, birds 21nd tha’ 683' ‘ Some 21(11-fashioned flowers, now ruled out of s y e, That looked in my face with o. glad, sunny smile‘x Granddaddy Greybcard, sure something is It has scaIttered my hopes, upset my best jo 5, Turned the girls into women, made men 0 the To shores of every sea. ; ‘ But, never yet have seamen met or dared Grim death for victory In braver mood than they who died On drifting decks, in Apia‘s tide, While cheering every sailor's pride‘ The Banner of the Free ! Granddaddy Greybeard. (By Mrs. Haney.) Granddaddy Greybeard, how do you do ? ’Tis ever so long since I parted from you. . Now you ‘have come, with your long spindle "7V7 , v..- _, 7 _‘._â€".V shanks, Accept a. warm welcomo and many kind thanks. Drive with your bicycle over my nose, Down my lone skirts till you come to m toes, As I liei 11 my hammock, swayed by the teens Screehed from the light by the leaves of the trees - Do as you like, only stay here with me. While I dream of the past as it once used to be. wrong ' The World cfmnges so as it gallops along ; They say times are better, but how can that be? It hashsrtplen so much that was pleasant from eyes: “ Granddaddy Greybeard, tell me, I pm , Where are my cows ? or I’ll kill you toâ€" a.y." With so many legs, no wonder you held One, two or more towards the old pasture-field. But I thguglgt game old man‘s soul, all withered and dried, _ Must be crowded and cramped in your little grey hide, As up the long pathway. with a slow pace, Came old “ Linebaq}: ” and “ Pink " and young “ Brnokleface," N ipping the herbage and switching their tails, To wher‘g mother stood, with the bright milkinga The Shah’s Fast Ride. The Shah of Persia was given the ex- perience of very fast running on English railways recently ; for example, the run from Leeds to York over the Great North- ern Railway, 9. distance of 1852 miles, being made in 3 hours and 41 minutes, giving a running average, exclusive of steps. of 56% miles an hour, a tremendous pace for so long a run. From Liverpool to Man- chester he was taken over the Cheshire line in 33 minutes, the distance being 34 miles. It is doubtful whether His Majesty enjoyed the tremendous contrast to Oriental ways which such a pace involved. It has been decided that a. big parade of the laundry girls will be the most effective way of winning over the young men from the heathen. The girls will put on their best, and in the whitest linen will carry their transparencies and show their country- men the error ot their ways. Began to Doubt Him. “You doubt me I ” he exclaimed. " Have I not told you over and over again that I loved you and you only; and did I ever tell you an untruth, Katherine ? " v “ I would that I could have absolute faith in you,” she replied, stifling a sob; " butâ€" but I heard you tell uncle that you once caught a. brook trout that weighed three pounds and six ounces”; and the tents flowed down her fair young face, while he tapped the ground with his foot and solemnly gazed o'er the wide blue sea. â€"-“ I have,” cried the rampaging orator, " in my tongue 9. rapier with which to kill all fools." “ Take it away from him I" yelled a man in the hall. “ He‘s going to commit suicide 1” ~Prinoess Victoria is the most original and thoughtful of the Prince of Wales' daughters. Princess Maude acts as her mother’s nmanuensis. Princess Louise has been her father’s favorite. Caistorville, Ont. -â€"â€"Mra. Brief (who has been reading an article on sleep, in a health paper)-â€"John is it best to lie on the right side or the left ’1‘ John (a. lawyer)â€"If you are on the right side, it usually Isn't necessary to lie at all. The Banner oi the Bravo! WAR ON CHINESE.