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‘jfventeen Chicago poiicemen have beet: suspended for neglect of duty and disobedi- ence to orders. The forest fires in Arkansas are still burning fiercely. George W. Scoggan, the Louisville, Ky., turfman. is dead. Sarah Meyers, 100 years old, has just been neat, to Gouverneur hospital, N. Y. All the Hebrew hat-makers of New York Eve returned to work at, the; old no: listen to the Irish demaurdg: At a. meeting of the Central branch of the National Federation in Dublin on Thursday, Mr. Justin McCarthy said that the Irish Parliamentary party held the balance of power, and he hoped Irish claims would be admitted by the present Government in the near future ; but if by any chance the Unionists came into power, the Irish mem- bers would reduce it, to a failure if it. did The Habitual Drunkard’s Commission, which held its first; meeting in Glasgow on Tuesday, will visit many of the northern towns of Scotland, and report the result of their investigation, so that their sugges- tions may be embodied in the Habitual Drunkarda’ bill to be introduced at the forthcoming session of Parliament. Sir John Pender, in an interview in Lon- don, said bhat the existing Atlantic cables were not making anything like an adequate Ieturn for the amount at capital expended upon their construction. Members of the moderate section of the Russian political refugees in London seem to be fairly well satisfied with Nicholas IL, and the prospects of reform under his rule In a speech at Glasgow the other nigh; Lord Rnsebery said measures for Scotch md Welsh disestnbhshment would hein- 9roduced during the coming aessmn of Parliannent. The Royal Ger. its session in L Several very ime programme. The Bank of Engllind’s rate of discount is unchanged an 2 per cent. The Queen arrived at Windsor Thursday morning in excellent health. The wreath sent by Queen Victoria. to be placed on the anb of the late Czar is five feet long, and a beautiful work of art. v a ' " U " "'v proposed Atlantic service, said that Mr. Huddart is an energetic, earnest, man, and he is doing everything thzm possibly can be done to push the scheme through to asatis- factory conclusion ; but at present the money market is against him. Steps are being taken tor the establish- ment of a large factory in Ottawa for the production of porcelain-ware carbeus, etc.. connected with the electrical demands of the present day. The building will cost about thirty thousand dollars, without the machinery, and at the start will employ from fifty to a hundred men. Sir Donald Smith, pre51dent- of the Bank of Montreal, who has just returned to Montreal from England, referring to the Sir Adolphe Caron has gone to New York, where Postmaster Patteson, of Toronto, and Messrs. Everett and McKenme, cf the To- ronto Street, Railway Company, will meet him, to investigate the electric postal car city service. with a view of introducing it in Toronto. There is so much demand for sugar beets by the manufactures of been sugar that Mr. Beaulieu, Commissioner of Agriculture of Quebec, is sending our circulars to the agricultural societies to ascertain how many acres of land will be sown with beets in the province of Quebec next year. The Aylmer, Que., Town Council has passed a by-law granting a twenty years’ charter to the Hull Electric Railway Com- pany for the operation of an electric railway between Hull and Alymer, and through the streets of the latter town. Diphtheria and scarlet fever have increas- ed to an epidemic in Montreal, and ihe Mayor,in response to an urgent deputation, has promised to open the Civic hospital for sufferers from those diseases as early s possible. The Royal Military College cadets, of Kingston, who were punished by confine- ment. to the grounds of the college for four weeks because of their connection with the blazing of ex-Cadet Plummer, were given their freedom on Tuesday. The school Board of Winnipeg intends taking steps to establish a. school for teach ing boys of the criminal class, so that they will not have to associate with the children or a better class. A west-bound freight train ran into a. rock slide between the first, and second tunnels, about two miles east of Golden, B. C.. at daybreak the other day. A tramp, who was riding between two box cars, was killed. Mayor Villeneuve, of Montreal, has had placed in his chair of office a beautifully chased medallion, commemorative of the fact. Lhat he was invested with the chmu by the Earl of Aberdeen. ‘ The rate on parcels between Canada and Japan by post will be reduced to 20 cents per pound on and after January I, 1895. The navigation season for the port of Montreal is practically closed. and it has proved a diauerous one for the steamship companies. Mt. Hiram \Valker, of VValkerville, pro- poses to erect, a large creamery and cheese factory near that. town. George Clark has been sentenced in Hamilton to 18 months in the Central prison for stealing a bicycle. Eugene Cote, of Montreal, pleaded gullw of mailing an indecent photograph, and was fined fifty dollars. CANADA. Agricultural teaching is to be intro- duced in the schools of Manitoba. THE "WEEK The health of Lieutenant-Governor Mackintosh has greatly improved in the past few days. ‘es. . G. Carlisle, secretary of the ates treasury, has issued acall for 100 worth of 5 per cent. ten-year Mora i GREAT BRITAIN. UNITED STATES. 1eographical Society opened London In Monc’ay night. mercsziug papers are on the alven ’ NEW L1 strict Great Men and Their Cats. Not a. few great men have been partial to cats. Petrarch had his cat embalmed ; Rosseau shed genuine tears over the loss of his; Dr. Johnson, sometimes called the “Great Bear," nursed his cat day and night during its illness, and went himself for oysters to tempt its appetite ; Southey raised one of his cats to the peerage, with the high sounding title of “Earl of Tomle- magne, Baron Raticide, Waowlher and Skaratchi." To Napoleon, however, cats were a mortal terror. Just after the battle of Wagrem an aide-de-camp, upon entering the emperor’s room, saw him half undressed with protruding eyes and perspin’ng fore- head, making frequent lunges with asword at the tapestry around the room. In ex- planation hesaid there was neat behind the tapestry, and that he hated cats from his very infancy. He had crossed the bridge at Lodi with sublime courage, yet quivered with excitement nnd terror over the mesence of a cat. It is certain that, enher wise hearing or ignorant. carriage is caught, as men take diseases. one of another; therefore, let men take heed of their compmxy.â€"§hakespearc. While a. party of twenty gendarmea were conveying n prxsoner accused of murder on Thursday to Alosb, in East Flanders, they were attacked by a. crowd who wanted to lynch the prisoner. A serious conflict en- sued, in which several men on both sides were wounded. The prisoner was ultimate- ly lodged in gaol. or omn aim the Two Germans, believed to be army ofl‘i- cers,and one Frenchman, have been arrested in Paris, charged with acting as spies, and illegally obtaining important Government papers. Very compromising documents were found in their lodgings. Adespatch from Bruex, Bohemia, says that twenty persons were killed by an ex- plosion on Friday morning at a Colliery near that, place. The supply 3f the new diphtheria cure having run out in the children’s hospitals in Berlin, the diphtheria death rate rose from eleven to sixty per cent. During the recent, floods in Limaaol, - seaport town of the Island of Cyprus twenty-one persons were drowned. The ceremony of swearing in recruits took place the other day in Berlin, in the presencu of the Emperor. It is said that, the expenses of the late Czar’s illness and the cost of the funeral will reach 10,000,000 roubles, It, is reported that; 100 people have been killed by earthquakes along the northern coast of Chili. In connection with ‘he obsequies of the Czar, 50.000 dinners will be given to the poor of St. Petersburg. The exodus of foreigners from Pekin continues. The French Senate has adopted the bill imposing an increased duty on raisins. The United States Government Commit- lee’s report, on the great railroad strike has been made public at Chicago. The commissioners blame the Managers’ Asso- ciation as well as the A. R. U., and endorse the calling out of the federal troops to quell disorder. Dr. P. Gibbons, of Syracuse, N. Y., has made application for the body of Charles F. Wilson, under sentence of death. as soon as he is electrocubed, to test his theory that electrocution does not kill, but that the murderer is subsequently killed during the autopsy. Exports of merchandise from the United States during October amounted in value to $83,558,372, against. $37,675,481 for‘lzhe same month last, year. The imports amounc- ed to $59,631,674, against $51,735,322. A banquet of the Two Million Club was held in Chicago on Wednesday night, at which it was declsred that the estimated population of the city was now two million two hundred and thirty-six thousand. Mr. M. H De Young, of San Francisco, director-general of the California Mul- VVinter Exposition, has purchased for the memorial museum one of Lhe most valuable collections of relics of the Napoleonic dynasty that the world possesses. The New York Board of Trade and Transportation has passed a resolution to the effect. that the police force should be divorced from all political control. The Royal Electric Light Company hm:e purchased the patents held by the Stanley Electrlcnl Company, of Pittsfield, Mass‘, the use of which, it is expected, will greatly reduce the expense of the production of electricity. Col. John A. McCaull, of opera fame, who fell on the ice and was paralyzed in Chicago early in 1888, died suddenly on Monday at, Greensborough, N.C. Three daughters survive him. Twenty-six expert diamond cutters from Antwerp are detained at Ellis Island. New York, in being claimed that. they have come to the United States in violation of the Contract Labor law. The new steamship St. Louis was launch- ed from Cramp’s shipyard in Philadelphia on Monday. Mrs. Cleveland did Lhe christen- ing, in the presence of 50,000 people. The athletic council of Cornell Universi- ty has decided to send a crew to compete in the Henley regatta in London next, June. General Pame. one of the best known yachtsmen in America, has announced his inbentaon of withdrawing from the Ameri- can Cup Committee. Diphtheria is epidemic in Anderson, Ind. One hundred and forty-three cases have been reported. and about: half of them are fat-'11. (Jlmrlea Wilfrid Mowbray, the English anarchist, is reported to have reached New York, along with his son. They assume the name of Curry. reduction in miners‘ wages, and a. strike is talked of. Mr. Levi P. Morton. Governor-elect of New York state, spent$19,790 in the elec- tion, according to a statement filed by his private secretary. man an driven GEN ERAI. “To CITIZEN MARA'I‘, FAUBOURG ST. GER- MAIN RUE DES CORDELIERS, AT PARIS : I wrote Lo you this inorniug,Ma.rm. Did you receive my lebner ? Can I hope for a. mo- ment’s audience! If you received in I hope you will not; refuse me, seeing how interest- ing the matter is. It. is sufficient that I am very unhappy, to have a right to your pro- tection.” He was at work on a. pamphlet entitled “ L'Ami du Peuple” (Friend of the Pen- ple) and, owing to the pain he continually suffered from a terrible disease, was lying in a. bath tub. Charlotte Cordw emer- teined him for a. few minutes with the fable about Girondisss which had gained her admission, and he had just. complacent- ly renmrkeil “ Within the week all the Ln n! - ‘ inn, have named will go to the ' run she drew the knife and ed to have news of Gironrlisb plots in Cean to tell him. Several times she was repulsed, but. a letter she wrote to Mame July l3.the same day she purchased a. knife in the Palaia Royal, obtained her an audience. Here is the letter : stabbed him. He sank back dead. She did not try to escape. They took her to prlfpn at, once_. . . The page of the paper ing when he died was of the bathroom and ais\er, Albertine Marat The assassination of her lover, a. young cavalry officer, by a mob of Reds undoubt- edly had something to do wiLh turning Charlotte’s mind toward the project which was to cost her her life. Yet; there is no sign of the murderous thoughts which must have been in her heart when she penned the letter to her father announcing her sudden and secret departure from home. The letter is written in the same hold: clear hand as others written in less trying nimes. She journeyed alone to Paris. vaur‘lja‘most, at once tried to reach Marat. S319 matad- It may not be out of place to recall a few of the salient features of Charlotte Corday‘s last days. She was still a. mere girl, though wonderfully advanced in thought even for those ligh pressure times, when she made up her mind to rid France of the man she esteemed a loathsome tyrant, and a letter of hers, written in a. pretty. round hand, singularly legible after a. lapse of a. century, und with all its old-fashioned 3’s and abbre- viations, addressed to her sister Rose, re- vealfi a. very tender heart. The letter is dated Jan. 28, 1793, six months before her fair young hands were stained with blood. which beset the birth of the first French republic, when the succeeding Napoleonic era. is being examined with a microscope, in is not unnatural that the romantic story of ChArlotte Corday should claim accention once more. blue Avenged ller Lover’s Murder With llrr own "and. and Cheerfully Paid the Penalty With Her Life. It; was a century ago, or, to be exact 101 years, that; a. young girl of gentle birth and country and convent breeding went, up to poor, afflicted Paris, then in the throes of the revolution, and to serve what. she esteemed real liberty and her native land deliberately planned and carried out a. deed of blood, and cheerfully paid the pen- alty mfew days later with her life. In these days, when everybody seemed to be taking new interest, in the tragic scenes PRETTY CHARLOTTE CORDAY’S AW- FUL CRIME RECALLED. A FAIR YOUNG MURDERESS THE KILLING 0F MARAT- CHARLOTTE CORD AY. "AN, ’,"‘L- w (u\ \‘1 g MARAT. Marat was correct- fouud on the ahel preserved by his The lower right,- All Flesh is Grass. Horse-flesh, ass-flesh and even muleflesh are now eaten in such large quantities in France that the regular butchers who deal in beef and mutton are getting uneasy. At aconference of the trade which is being held in Paris, one of the principal subjects for discussion was the manner in which the competition of the horse-butchers was to be met. In the result, a. resolution was carried to the effect that horse-flesh, ass- flesh and mule-flesh should be subjected to the same uuties as those on other meats, in proportion, that is to say, to the selling value, and that dealers in horse-flesh should be forbidden to sell what may be Every native, official or otherwise,will accept. abribe, so that the governments are literally honeycombed with johbery and treachery. One thing that will settle most of these revolutions is when some of the outside powers take control. The United States should either annex Cential America. and the Isthmus of Panama or establish aprotectornte over them and go on with the interoceanic canal. Because of the Nicaragua. Canal, Mr. MC.IBE&0 fears much irresolution on the part of the United Statues. During his sojourn down .south, Mr. Mclsasc, who is yet only 25 years of age, and extrsordinnrily vigorous for a. person just away from such an enervatine climate, has been through many parts of Venezuela, the United States of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The people m those countries and in Central America, he says. are never at peace unless they are at war. to use a. paradoxical expression. The climate seems to breed. in the natives, whilst. it, generates some- thing akin to indolence in the white for- eigner} ESome ofthe stronger men, with more than the modicum of intellect, have no difficulty in fomencing rebellion. All the troubles are caused by the enileavnrs of such men to gain and hold power. Unscrupulousness is one of their char- acteristics. and corruptihility is another. designated as the staple armcles of. the butcher’s trade. The congress also ex- pressed a unanimous opinion in opposition to the special military butcher’s stores, their view being that, the supply of meat for his baggage on the lnteroceanic Rail- way. This railroad is the only one in the country. Mr. Mclsaac was much struck with the metamorphosis which has taken place along the line of the famous canal since he left it when work was abandoned. It is now a perfect wilderness of jungle and tropical growth. The work was carried on in detachments, so that now all these great separate holes speak mourniully of what mighthave been. All the expensive dredges, trucks, drilling machinery and buildings belonging to the Panama. Canal Company have fallen to pieces, and are fast being destroyed by rot and rust. Plenty of the plant it would be difficult to discover a. tall, so rank has grown the verdure. Not half of the work toward the completion of the canal is done and much of it will have to he performed over again if notion is resumed. should be left to private enterp-rise. With regard to the trade in preserved meats for the use of the army, which was not, lost sight of, 'llr' H verument were called upon, 11 she ‘nteru. of the French dealers (but, not, of course, of the poor French tax- payers), not, to give contracts to any foreign firms On October 21-36, on his return trip here, Mr. Mclsuac crossed the Isthmus of Panama and was charged Canal, occupied 62 days. “His passage was made in a. sailing vessel laden with lumber. came to New York was forby~one barrels of gold from the mines Where his business is. His return was by steamer, but, when he went out some four or five years ago the trip from San Francisco to Panama, where he went to work on the great De Lesseps So far as ewpenae is concerned, Mr. Mc- Isaac’a trip home IS not one that can be in- dulged in too often. His fare from Hon- duras was 3210, not to mention five days occupied coming from the mountains to the coast, accompanied by a. native, each mounted on a mule. There are no rallwaya there. On the vessel in which Mr. McIsaac A Gold Miner From Snth America Step9 over In um Cily Ruins oflhe de Less cps Canal. Mr. Roacher Mcleaac, arrived in Toronto from Central America. the other day. A representative of the press had a. chat with Mr. McIsaac. He is employed in con- nection with gold mining in the Andes, which, he says, is a lucrative business for any white man who can stand the climate. There are only four white men at; the mines, one of whom is the foreman, while the oth- era are officials of the mining company. Mr, McIsanc has been away from the city for ver four years, during which time he has enjoyed good health,except for four months, while he was struggling with the coast fever at: Panama. Mr. McIsanc gets $15 per day at; the mines, and works seven days a week. The foremsn gets $7,000 a year. Thine salaries appear large, but Mr. McIsaac says that NECESSARIES ARE EXPENSIVE. go practically sible in the McIsaac left t last, the them The trial of Charlotte took place four days later and lasted but, a. few hours. She was sentenced to death and met her fate with perfect calmness and such fortitude that several who saw her were betrayed inno admiration for which they paid with their heads soon after. hand corner of the sheet; is actually stained with the wretched man’s blood. STRAIGHT FROM THE ANDES DISCONTENT AND INTRIGUE FIFTEEN CENTS A POUND A good many persons have wondered where the Count of Paris got all his money, for it costs a. pretty penny to even act as pretender and keep up a mimic court in exile. Thereby hangs a little romance. When the Count was casting about him, some fifteen years ago, for a. means of raising the wind, he suddenly received one day a. letter from a. mysterious foreigner, whose name was never divulged, but who wrote in su stance thus :â€"“I owe my immense fortune to your grandfather, and I am not ungrateful. If money is what is needed to keep up the estnhlishment suitable to an heir to the throne of France, you shall have plenty. Give a trusty man five 0 your visiting cards, and bid him present them to the five stockho‘ders named below, and what I destine for you will be he nded him.” The Count did as he was bid, and the mun received from the brokers bonds enough to half fill his cab. The precise sum is unknown, but the bonds were so valuable that an insurance com- pany wanted 50,000 francs for guaranteeing their safe transport to England. Words cm not dojustice to the wondrous charm of New South Wales scenery, which in many places, combines the grandly I'D'X mnntic with Sylvan beauty in efashion which would delight the eye of an artist in Search of the picturesque. In the writings of visitors, who have not had time to become acquainted with the real attractions of the Australian landscape, we frequently fin allusions to the brown, dried-up appearance of the country, the absence of herbage and the went of variety in the foliage of the forest; but there are periods when the same may be said of English scenery. During a considerable part of the year, save on the great plains of the interior, the grass is as bright null green as in the English park, while the rich profusion of native flowers, of every size and hue, testifies to the lux- uriant character of the soil A trip up the Purrametta or Lane Cove Rivers. near Syd- Hagopian concludes by appealing that the time has come to abolish the existing administration of Armenia, and to re- lplace it by another regime approved by Great Britain and the other signatories of the treaty of Berlin, and worked under their immediate supervision. The letter of the Armenian previously referred to is, dated Bilis, October 9, and commences by ’saying that the chief magnate appears 1: | be a second Nero, and continues: “Th so-called rebellion of the Armenians in l .3 was a got-up affair for the repression( of which the chief magistrate got a decorat on. This year the Kurds carried 03' Arme ian oxen and the Armenians’ appeal for the' r re- storation was refused. A fight ensued, two Kurds were killed and three were wcfund- ed. The Kurds immediately carriedr’ their dead before the Governor, declaring that the Armenian so diers had overrun the land, killing and plundering the \‘Kurds. This furnished a pretext for massing the troops from far and near. The troops were commanded by a pasha and a marshal and were hurried to the district. The pasha. is lsaid to have hung from his breast, after i reading it to his soldiers, an order fromCon- i stantinople to cut the Armenians up, root land branch, and adjuring them to do so if ‘ they loved their King and Government, Nearly all these things were related here and there by soldiers who took part in the horrible carnage. Some of them, weeping, claim that the Kurds did more, and declare that they only obeyed the orders of others. It is said that 100 fell to each of them to dis- pose of. No compassion was shown to age or sex even by the regular soldiers, not even when the victims tell suppliant at their feet. Six to ten thousand persons met such a fate as even the darkest ages of darkened Africa hardly witnessed, for there women and tender babes might at h ast have had a chance of a life of slavery, whiie here womanhood and innocence were buta mockery before the cruel lust that ended its debauch by stabbing women to death with the bayonet, while tender babes were impaled with the same weapon on 5 their dead mothers’ breasts, or, perhaps, seized by the hair to have their heads lopped off With the sword. Where the Count of Paris got Money A westward, ocean trip, between Europe and New York, 13 usually 7 per centJonger than an eastward one. “Yes.” she said, “I’ll give you your breakfast if you’ll chop down that tree for me.” “Madam,” Meandering Mike re- plied meekly,"I don’t want ter git out, o’ my class. I’m no Gladstone. Neither am 1 a George Washington.” my, is suggestive of the appearance of 'the Thames above Richmond, but, the Austral- ian riverside scenery is more varied and picturesque. A despatch from London says :â€"-The chairman of the Armenian Patriotic Association, G. Hagopian, has sent the following letter, received from an Armenian, whose name is not given because it would jeopardize his life, to the Earl of Kimberley, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The letter is accom- panied by one from Hagopian, in which he says : “ I have no reason to doubt the an- thenticity of the details. They will be borne out by fuller ofiiuisl reports, which have been, or which will soon be, received from the British agents in Armenia. The events. reported are the reâ€"enactment of the Bul- garian atrocities with all their most sicken- ing details of fiendish lust and atrocious. cruelty on unarmed Christians and defence- less, innocent women and children, de- liberately planned and ruthlessly executed under orders received from headquarters at Constantinople.” A HORRIBLE TALE OF .ST AND BLOODSHED. Bulgarian Alrotllcs Ike-enacted In all Thelr l-‘Iennlhlmessâ€""v-u, Women and (‘lnildron Subjected m Cruelty and Death at the Hands of lhe Ruthless Rut-(ls. ARMENIAN UUTRAGES. New South Wales Scenery