Montreal weekly witness commercial review and family news paper, 6 juin 1899, mardi 6 juin 1899

[" \\ 3 « % ALASKAN BOUNDARY.\u2014 Official Story of the Proceed- ingg of the Joint High Commission.London, June 8\u2014Tig Foreign Office issued à parlismentary paper on Satur day night, giving in detail the procesd- ings of the Joint High Commission in Washington, relating to the British oro- vossls for aubitratiom on the Alaskan boundary.BRITISH PROPOSAL.The Hritish Commissioners proposed the immediate appointment of an ar bitral tribunal to determine the boundary between Alaska snd Canads from the southernmost point at Prince of Vales Lsiand to Mount Bt.Elias, in accordance with the Angio-Russian treaty of Feb.28, 1625, the tribunal to consist of three jurists, one nominated by the Privy Council, one by President Mc- Kinley, and the third to be elected by the two nominees.The rules governing the arbitrators were as follows :\u2014 A\u2014Adverse holding or prescription during a period of 80 years shell make ood the titi.The arbitrators may old exclusive political control of the district, as well as settlement thereof, sufficient to constitute adverss holding or make prescriptive title.B\u2014The srbitrators may recognizes and give effect to rights of claims resting on any other ground, valid, according to international law, or principles of international law, that the arbitrators may deem applicable to the cass which are not in contravention of rule A.C\u2014Ia determining the boundary, if the territory of one party shall be found by the tribunal to have been at the date of this treaty in occupation of the sub- jeots or citizens of the other party, such affect shall be given to such tion as reason, justice, the principles of international law and the equities of the case require.The other articles provide for « meeting sixty days after the printed articles are submitted; that all questions, including the final judgment, shall be de- i by a majority of all the arbi- ) termined, 2 tratora, the deeision, if possible, to be rendered within three months of the close of arguments; and the employait of necessary assistance of scienti- Be experts, each government to pay its own expenses and the other expenses to be equally divided.The concluding article provides that the high contracting parties shall en- age to consider the result of the oro- ings as a full, perfect and final net- tlément of all questions referred to the atBétrators.A COUNTER PROPOSAL.The Americans accepted the proposals as the basis of a readjustment, but proposed, in addition to the Anglo-Rumsian treaty, that the boundary should be de fined' in accordance with the Rumso- American treaty of cession, or as the same shall be established by the tribunal under the rules hereinafter provided, the tribunal to consist of six impartial jurists of repute, three to be nominated by the Privy Council, and three by the President of the United States.The Americans also proposed an amendment to rule C as follows :\u2014' In conaid- ering the question \u2018 coast\u2019 referred to in said treaties, it is understood that the coast of the continent is intended, and that all towns and settlements on tide water, settled under authority of the \u201cUnited States and under jurisdiction of the United States at the date of this treaty, shall remain within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States.\u2019 THE BRITISH REPLY.commissioners regret that they are absolutely unable to accept the aug- fied modification to their proposition, the suggested American tribunal did not provide a tribunal which would necessarily, and, in the possible event of difference, finally dispose of the question, use the amendment to rule C was & marked sad important departure from the rules of the Venezuelan beun- reference, which left all such questions to be determined by the tribunal, and because the words added by the United States claim that an effect should be given to their occupation of land in British territory, which justice, reason, and the equity of the case do not require.The commissioners also objected that the language used with reference to the coast was open to miscomstruction aud they were of opinion that it was useless 10 further press the negotiations at pres ut, and that they must refer the 10atter 0 government for an cxcha of views in respect to the Constitution of the tribunal.The Americans inquired whether the British commissioners had considered the question of selecting an umpire from the can continent.The Rritish members replied in the affirmative, add.that they she t D , view the pol i rs of by Cute s 2 government the Unit tates towards other nations oa the said continent.élection of an umpire by any such would not offer a guar antes of impartiality.which wes the fred qualiScation requisite.| 4 CANADA CONTINUES TO BE A LAND OF SURPRISES Canada\u2014'1 am sure that our friend is looking only for justice.That is certainly all he will get\u2019 THE CANADIAN CONTENTION.The Americans then proposed to pro- coed 10 settle the remaining subjects as they thought it would be unwise to defer adjustments so nearly concluded.Several subjects were so far advanced as to assure the probability of a settlement.If, then, ail differenets except one could be adjusted, would it not be most commendable to advance neighborly friendship, and could not the respective governments be trusted to settle the principal remaining difference by direct negotiation.The British commissioners replied that sll questions should be deferred until the boundary was disposed ol either by agreement or by reference to arbitration, because the manner in which they were prepared to adjust some other important matters must depend upon whether it would be possible to arrive at a settlement of all questions which might at any time occasion acute controversy and even conflict, FEELING IN LONDON, London, June &\u2014The Marquis of Salisbury\u2019s handling of the British end of the negotiations of the Anglo-American commission is regarded with confidence not only by his supporters, but by his political opponents, and there is reason to believe that in informal communications with the leaders of the Opposition the government was able to assure itself of the sympathy of the Liberals in a coming arrangement satisfactory both to the United States and Great Britain.A representative of the Associated Press bad a talk with Mr.Herbert Ilenry Asquith yesterday.The former home secretary in Lord Rosebery\u2019s Cabinet spoke openly of the id of himself and his colleagues on tl ront Opposition ci that the questions houle be adjusted without the semblance of antagonism mn dealings with the United States.He said : \u2018They consider Lord Salisbury is conducting the negotiations tactfully.I am not sure our Canadian brethren bave approached the question with the calmness of the United States.The feeling on our side of the House of Commons undoubtedly is that the question je in capable bands, that no impediment will be raised by Lord Salisbury, and that s vis media will be found.The difficulty i» the tendency which is beginning to as sert iteelf both in Canada and the United States to restrict the aree open to compromise, which increases the difficulties of diplomacy.1 have nothing but praise for the epirit which the Wesbingion au thorities bave shown throughout, while the Canadians have shown a tremendous tenacity, which.however, is necessary In dealing with the sharpest-witjed business .| people in the world.\" PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS.London, June 5.\u2014A representative here of the Associated Press has been informed that the United States ambase- dor, Mr.Joseph H.Choate, at the conference which be had with the Marquis of Salisbury at the Foreign Office on Friday, submitted despatches from the off- cials at Washington, who have considered the points raised by the Canadians in the Alaska boundary dispute.These are treated generally, but two points were specially treated, the first defining the line of arbitration to which it is proposed to submit the Alaskan question.aud the second the American view of the Lynn canal strip claim.A prominent Foreign Office official said Canada\u2019s proposition on the first point might be accepted by both parties, and that the fifty years\u2019 valid title clause may be made the base of negotiations, in which case they would practically proceed on the Venezuela lines.New York, June 5\u2014The London cor respondent of the \u2018Tribune\u2019 suys : \u2018There has been a further exchange of views between Lord Salisbury and the American Embassy, without decisive result.The English press has little to say about the Anglo-American negotiations.There is no denial of the emsential fact that Canada prevented the settlement of the Alaska frontier, when both the Foreign Oflice and the State Department were on the point of agreeing on terms of arbitration.The pretext on which this inter ference was based is purely artificial, since the American title to Dyea and Skaguay has never been questioned, wherças Pyramid Harbor has never been claimed by Canads until recently.and never occupied at any time.While the situation has not been changed by any negotiations conducted this week, it cannot be doubted that public opinion would welcome a settlement which would relieve British diplomacy from tbe reproach of being entirely at the mercy of Canadian pique and caprice in Anglo-Amerfoan sffairs.° In the House of Commons yesterday Sir Wilfrid Laurier explained further the difference of opinion in the boundary dispute.As to the appointment of the tribunal to arbitrate, the British desired three jurists of repute\u2014one selected by the British Privy Council, the second selected by the President of the United States, the two thus sppointed to select a third.In the event of disagreement a to selecting a third, some friendly power unnamed should select him.As to the question of occupation, it would follow the lines of the Venezuelan treaty.Thus, if territory were found, say, occupied by the United States which under the terms of the treaty would be rightly tdritish, possemsion for 50 years would constitute a title, while possesion for less than 50 years would constitute a uestion for reference to the arbitrators.ding the settlement: of the questions involved, [hers is no modus ve nor a proposal to have one.tion was made to bave a provisional hound- ary on the Lynn canal.For the past two vears there had been a provisional boundary, accepted by both countries, on the summit of the White Pass and Chilkoot Pas.RIOTING IN PARIS.President Loubet Violently Attacked by a Mob - Paris, June 5.\u2014President Loubet, ac companied by the Premier, M.Dupuy, and the chief of the military household, General M.C.Bailloud, drove to the Auteuil races yesterday afternoon, close ly followed by Maisme Loubet in « second landau.As they drove along the Avenue des Champa Elysee, the crowd bowed respectfully, but on arriving at the race course, they wer: met by a violent demoustration, evidently organised, and directed against the President.There was a storm of hoots, yells, and cries of, \u2018Panama,\u2019 \u2018A bas Loubet, amd \u2018Vive l'arm=6.\" A few shouts of \u201cVive Toubet, were drowned in the clamor.À strong force of police kept order and arrested many of the disturbers, including à man who tried to force his way to the President's carriage.During the second race the clamor increased in violence, and was plainly directed by a committee of the League of Patriots, collected with their supporters both before and behind the presidential stand, around which s formidable affray proceeded.During the grand steeplechase many blows were struck, and several po- licomen were injured in their endeavors to prevent an invasion of the Presidential stend.At the crisis of the excitement, while shouts of \u2018Vive l'armée,\u2019 and \u2018Vive Derouléde,\u2019 were heard on all sides, Count Christiani rushed towards the President, brandishing a stick, and directed a blow against him, striking his hat.The crowd rushed upon Christiani, who only escaped severe bandling by being taken under police protection.President Loubet remained all the while quite unmoved, talking to the Premier, while the officers of hia military household were lefending him against vio: Jence.Finally, after thirty arrests bad been made, the prefect of police ordered the Republican Guards to surround the presidential stand.The principal leaders of the demonstration were M.Joseph La- vies, anti Semite and Nationalist, deputy for Gers; and M.Firmin Faure, anti-Sem- ite snd Nationalist deputy for Oran, Al- geris.Police Inspector Grilliere had his head seriously wounded in the melee, and Prevident Loubet has simee decorated bim with the Cross of the Legion of Henor, in recognition of his devotion to duty.On returning to the Elysee Pal are, M.Loubet recerved many sympe- thiging callers.Montreal Weekly Witness.LONDON TOPICS, Opposition to the Proposed Grant to Gen.Kitchener.(Special Cablegram to the N.Y.\u201cTirmes.\u2018) London, Jine 3.\u2014It is not precisely a dignified or sn impressive fact, but it is! a fact pevertheless, that British domes- | tic politics at this moment centre round the Mahdi's disinterred corpee.Any bupe that Morley would abendon his intention of moving to refuse assent to the Queen's message proposing « grant of! thirty thousand pounds to Kitchener disappeared when Rosebery selected this intention for denunciation in lus last speech.Two classes of members will vote with Morley; first *hose mysterious beings who tbink that an error of taste by s great soldier outweighs his conduct of oue of the most brilliant little campaigns in history; second, those who, like Dilke, disspprove of the governments Egyptian policy.As in every case when there is an opportunity of criticisng British policy, a considerable number of Irish members will support Morley.These three sections combined may show a strength of between fifty and sixty.It is a significant fact that not a little anxiety has been felt in Liberal circles as to which way the present Liberal leader himself would vote.Campbell Bannerman will, however, vote with the government for the grant, possibly even on the second motion.Meanwhile Conservative discus: sion of a dissolution proceeds.The \u2018National Review,\u2019 a leading Tory montbly, ccntains 8 striking anonymous article strongly urging dissolution this year un the grounds that the Liberal party is wholly disorganized at this moment.Rosebery's speech, it is asserted, has ali¢ nated the Irish party; the question of nism in the Church is only svoided for the moment, and will shortly recur in a more dangerous form; the country will soon resent the Conservative failure to fulfil their pledges about old sge pensions; an increase of the Bational expenditure will: necessitate fresh unpopular taxation for the next budget; in foreign affairs a crisis cannot be much longer postponed, and, finally, several incapable members of the pres ent cabinet must be weeded out.Al: these, the article concludes, demand that the Conservative party should have a successful election behind them, rather than a doubtful one in front.Point is given to this contention by a sweeping Liberal victory at Southport, where Curszon\u2019s seat, originally won by Naylor Leyland, has been won again by flir George Pilkington, with a largely increased majority.For my own part, however, I do not believe that these arguments will induce the present tim- orgus cabinet to take such a strong step.It is possible, however, that Balfour, by adopting a frankly apologetic attitude, may deprive Morley\u2019s motion of all force.THE DREYFUS CASE., Probably before thin cable reaches you Dreyfus, the degraded traitor and con- viet, will have become again Captain Alfred Dreyfus, in full uniform, with the Crome of the Legion of Honor upon his breast.So ends the most despicable political crime of civilized history\u2014a erime which leaves an indelible disgrace upon France, and may, indeed, prove to have been tbe first public symptom of ber downfall as a gremt power.The Court of Camation met secretly yesterday, and decided upon ome merely formal alteration in M.Ballot-Beaupré's report.The Court is expected to publish its ver- aict to-day.Orders have already been given for placarding this in every Commune throughout France.The last placarding wae à speech of Cavaignac, declaring amid the unanimous enthusiasm of the Chamber of Daputies, that three documents conelu- sively proved Dreyfue's guilt.Two of these have now been shown to be forgeries, while the third did not refer to Dreyfus at all.Du Paty de Clam 1s now imprisoned in the very cell where he tortured Drey- fre.Againet Drevfus himæelf not one jot or tittle of evidence remains, and to cop the climax, to-day Esterhazy's con- feasion that he himself wrote the bor dereau at the orders of Colonel Band- herr appears.This confession has long been s foregone conclusion, and as T myself was the vehicle of Baterbaxy\u2019s original revelations, 1 speak not without knowledge.FICKLE PARIS.French public sentiment, always fickle, will probably accept the ceremony of Dreyfus's rehabilitation as merely an ex citing spectacle and an excuse for a holiday.Already Paris is mote interested in other mattrre.Marchand, the dark, tired, bewildered explorer, made an an- ti-Drayfus, anti-Englieh speech on landing, but since then he has preserved rig- idly a correct attitude.e acquittal of Deroulède, however, wid en v thusissm, of the crime of high treason, which he ceaselessly boasted be had committed, has once more plunged serious Paris into à panic because of the fresh proof it affords that the government uw partlyzed by o military and clerical an- ti-Semite coalition.All correspondants send a gloomy forecast regarding the for ture of the republic.Probably nothing will happen yet, but certainly anything may.FIRE AT REPUBLIC.BUSINESS PORTION OF THE TOWN DESTROYED.Republic, B.C, June 3.\u2014The business centre of this mining camp was burned out by a fire that started in the Spiggie building at an early hour this morning A brisk wind was blowing at the time, and the fimsily constructed buildings were swept away like tinder.The flames were only got under control by the use of dynamite.The losses were as follows :\u2014Republis Trading Company, $17,000 ; Eureka News Company, $8,000 ; A.W.Strong & Co., cigars, $4,000; D.E.Walters Clothing Company, $3.000; G.W.Brady, dry goods, $1,000 ; Threlkeili Bros., $1,000 ; M.Edisams, builder, $3,500 ; W.Oliverton & Sheldon, saloon, 81,000 ; Pat Riordan, saloon, $6,500 ; Tom Walsh, $1,300 ; J.Wiarton, $1,000 ; B.F.Keck, sajoon, $4,000 ; R.G.Mason, buildings, $2,000 ; Bert Harris, saloon, $4,000 ; H.L.Percy.residence, $4,000 ; Phillips & Bima, saloon, $1,000 ; Hollinsworth & McCuteh- eon, $3,500 ; Biegle Vienna Café, $2,000; McMillan & Marsky, saloon, $1,000.About twenty others sustained losses from $2,000 to $5,000.The total loss is between $75,000 and $80.000.The total insurance is $20,000.Before the fire was fairly out one man started to shovel awa the débris preparatory to erecting a build, ing.As it was on ground that had been declared a public highway by the comnty commissioners be was arrested and the lumber thrown off the ground.A number of persons combined and bought up the product of both saw-mills for a stated period, and also the shingles.There is pot likely to be a very great lumber famine, but the combine undoubtedly wil raise the price of both lunsher apd shingles, but probably not to the extent feared.It is understood most of the buildings destroyed will be rebuilt as acon a8 possible.There was much liquor sto len during the fire, and as a result thers was a great many drunken men.The commissioners ordered the sheriff to close the saloons for twenty-four hours, under penalty of forfeiture of license.TELEGRATS OF TO-DAY.BRIEF NOTES OF THIS MORNING'S NEWS.The British House of Commons voted the Sirdar (General Kitchener) £39,351 yesterday, after there had been some criticiam of his acts by Mr.Morley, who declared against the manner in which the Mahdi's head bad been treated.Mr.Balfour i that the whole seam ing pen really a public duty, done in a public manner to defy and destroy the fanaticism which surround; ed the Mahdi and his tomb.Kitchener was present with Lord Rob erts and the Duke of Marlborough in the House.Row followed row in the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday; bat though M.de Largentaye had to be © corted from the Chamber by soldiers the axiom that the guilty must be paw ished prevailed.Even General Mercier is to be prosecuted for the Dreyfus basi ness and justice must be done.During the debate om Lord Kitchen er\u2019s grant in the House of Commons, yesterday, Mr.Robert Wailace, member for Perth was prostrated by cerebral paralysis while speaking, and he was removed in ap ambulance\u2014a rather serious case.Samoans of both native parties are giving up their weapons, Matasfa sur rendered 1,800 guna, Mr.John H.Henderson, of the Ot tawa branch of the Union Bank, was missed from his place there yesterday.A warrant for his arrest is issued.The amount short is placed at $35,000, General Alger and bis family arrived in Montreal yesterday, and were the guests of Sir William Van Horne.\u2014 MANITOBA CROPS.Winnipeg, June 5.\u2014The crop repart of the Manitobs & Northwestern Railway for the two wenks ending June 1 is a most encouraging one.Wheat ie for the most part up four inches above the ground and owing to the very favorable weather it is expected the crops om July 4 will be as fer advanced as on the same day last year.Parley and cat seeding ie nearly completed.The acreage under wheat is lightly incressed over last yeat while there is conaiderable increase in the acreage sown te barley and oats.& THE FOREST OF BOURG-MARIB.FRANCIS HARRISON (SER- ANUS.) \u2014 (Author of ' The Rose and Fleur de Lis\u2019 ete.) CHAPTER V.\u2014(Continued.) ue had commitied à crime-or, rather, Magloire.Both bad alain the Ideal.\u201d But Leurière's faith, though dis mayed and perturbed, was not shaken.Was it not his sister, living now at L'Assomption, and mother of a large family, who for years bad suffered with her spine, but was at last cured by making the pilgrimage to the shrine of St.Anne, Jeaving her crutch behind her, to join the pyramid of sticks, canve, crutches of all kinds, that is kept there as a witness through the centuries ! Witness to what?To the miracles yet done oo 12 THE HOPE DIAMOND.AN HISTORIC GEM OF STRANGE VICISSITUDES.The story of the Hope diamond\u2014 story already full of romance, mystery snd piquancy\u2014has hed another episode added to it.Lord Francis Pelham Clinton Hope, its present possessor, was last week restrained by the Court of Chancery, ailting in London, from disposing of it for sale.The value oi this dis- mond is veriously estimated at from £17,000 to £25,000.The value of Lord Hope's other possessions is variously | timated at from zero to many thousands Jess than zero.This enumerution of uc tual assets does not of courwe include hu wife, May Yohe, through whose histron- ic talents the bankrupt spendthritt is alcue enabled to attain food, raimeat and pocket money, His (wuusel urged with some show of reasoning that nas much as the gem was usclems for orua ment, it would be wiser to sell it for the benefit of Lord Hope and his heirs than to altow 12 to lie in @ bank safe for the next forty yeurs.But the Duke of Newcastle, lord Hope's eldest brother, and Lady Heu- trice Lister-Kaye, his eidest sister, con: tested the right of their impecunious brother to sell à family herloow, and their contention was upheld by the Court.The Hope diamond once more disappears from public view jute the recesses of a beak vault, This diamond is unique in every way To begin with, it is the largest, and, indeed, the only large blue diamond known to jeweliere.There is an almost ridieu- lous decline from its forty-one and a quarter carats of weffht to the ten and three-quarter carate oi the Brunswick blue stone.Yet the Brunswick comes next in size among examples of this very Tare species, and the Brunswick stone is itself believed to have formed a part of the\u2014 But 1 am anticipating.The authentic history of the Hope diamond begine with the vear 1683, when Travernier, the famous jeweller, famous also as a traveller into those Oriental realms that erstwhile sparkled with gems of fabulous value (cf.Marco Polo, Sin- bad, Lemuel Gulliver and other authori ties), returned to Paris \u2018rom what proved to be his last tour.He brought with him twenty-five diamonds, All of these \u2018were purchased forthwith by Louis XIV for 2.000,000 francs in cash, with the title of Baron d\u2019Aubonne thrown in as a sort of nobiliary chromo to bind the barguin Chief among the brillisnts was a Mue diamond.Now, blue diamonds are almost as rare as blue roses, and infinitely more valuable.But this particular blue diamond was the largest ever heard of before or since in the entire history of precious stores.It was still in the rough, to be sure, and flat and ill formed, so that the process of cutting reduced it from its original one hundred and twelve and a half carats to sixty-seven and one- eighth carats.Even then it was unique, urapproachable, unapproached, On great siste occasions the Grand Monarque was one blaze of jewellery, representing a total value of sixty million francs, and the Tavernier blue diamond, the moet famous of all his collection, was pendulously re- of lendent from a blue ribbon that encircled his neck.Then came the French revolution and the sacking of the treasury of the Grand Menarch'e not very grand descendant.The royal jewels captured by the mob 1 À > There are many citisens of the Western Continent wbo may think that their own cities can display administrative buildings, both governmental and those belonging to private corporations, that are not to be excelled in any other cities of the other countries of the world., THE NEW RAILWAY OFFICES AT BOMBAY.Whether the legislative halls or post.offices, hotels or museums and art galleries, railway stations, or office buildings, there is scarcely a large city in Canada or the United States, but can display one of such sort out of the common.The accompanying illustration of the new milway offices at Bombay, of the Bombay, llarodas and Cen- even an The cost of the new offices was six and « \u2014\u2014Tilustreted London News.\u2019 tral India, will show, however, that half lacs of rupees and the building took Indian city is able to/a little over four years to complete, but display something in the line of build-| it would have been finished a year earlier inge of which any city in the world [had it not been for the prevalence of might be proud.The architect of this] the plague in Bombay.fine building is Mr.F.W.Stevens, tral tower is visible from all parts of C.LE, F.R.I.B.A., who was assisted the fort, and is a landmark to mariners by his son, Mr.C.F.Stevens M.S.A.approaching Bombay.The high cen- be the other fragment of the Tavernier, skilfully recut.The conclusion seemed irevitable that the Hope and the Brunswick diamonds are fragmenta of the his- wric Tavernier stone.TALES OF COMMON THINGS palatable and nutritious, are good medie- inally.Cooked ae a vegetable, they are certainly the equal of spinnach and superior to any of the cabbages, and one wonders they are so little caten; probably the explanation in, again, that they are too plentiful to be valued at their true worth.The dandelion belongs to the sunflower family, and the order com- Five of Our Most Familiar Wild Flowers Briefly Described.A COLUMN OR TWO OF PETALS, POETRY AND PICTURES.This Sower enlaced with leaves, shows naught but green: That shoots a roseate \u2018streak from forth the screen; One opes her pyramid and purple spire, Emerging into plenitude of fire: Another thrusts ber verdant veil aside, Counting her petals one by one with pride, Expauds her radiant cup of gorgeous hue, And brings dense hidden veins of gold to low.were deposited in the Garde Meuble.But \u2014Jobn Addington Symonds, translated from somehow the Tavernier diamond had dis- appesred from among them, For almost half « century nothing was heard of it.Buddeniy, in the year 1830, à blue diamond of forty-four and a quarter carats apjeared unheralded upon tbe markets.In the absence of the Tavernier diamond this was the largest blue diamond in the werld.Curiosity was piqued.But all enquiries into its past history were bafi- ed.The owner, Daniel Eliason, could or would say pothing more than that he had purchased it from a stranger.He had asked no questions and was able to answer none.Henry Thomas Hope, the famous banker, bought the stone from Elisson.The rumored purchase money was $13,000.This was reckoned a good bargain for the bunker.The stone has ever since been known as the Hope dia- mend, Now, the unexplain appearance of this blue marv.d upon The market set the wiseacres to thinking.Was ft not, more than likely, they asked, that the Dew stone was a large fragment of the oid?They pointed owt that the man who stole the Tavernier diamond, or his descendants or assignees, would not dare te dispose of # in its original shape.What more naturel than that he should bave reduced it by cleavage td two or more pieces, first selling off the smaller piece or pieces, and finully the larger?An argument in point was that the Tavernier diamond had a triangular salient gibbosity which might very well have been sliced off, leaving the diamond, when recut to fit its new conditions, about the size and shape of the Hope, In April, 1874, more thinking was there was exposed a blue diamond of cordingly.ten and three-quarter rate Ochs «n Iéyl by Ausocoius, .If dandelions were orchids and orchids were dandelions, the Colonial Secretary would have his lawn studded with the one instead of having his conservatories filled with the other; and the rural pedestrian would pause at least a moment to admire ite golden glory \u2018in the wide grass meadows which the sunset fills, and along every dusty wayside, where few other flowers will consent to grow.But, \u2018If ifs and ands were pote and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers\u2019 potitae, which includes the goldenrod, the aster, the marigold, the everlasting, and numerous other handsome and familiar flowers, Much verse has been written concerning it, and amongst others the following: The rays of glory from thy golden heart Crown the wean comrade of thy place and irth\u2014 True worth is ever, humble though its part, An aureole of hogor to the earth.Sweet 1s the breath of blossoms, and the Graces, When suppliants through Love's temple wend their way, Look down with smiles from their celestial places On maidens wreathed with chaplets of the May: But from the crownless choir they hide their faces, Nor heed them when they sing nor when they pray.Another common flower, in the sense of being plentiful, is the Red Clover, Trifohum Pratense, which continues in Suntower Family.RED CLOVER, Trifollum Prâtesse, Pes Family.blossom from May until the end of the season.Thoreau likens fields full of it to the blushing red of the western sky at evening, and its delicious perfume rises on tbe air like incense to the morn.DANDEBLION, Taraxacum (Dens-Leoots), The White Clover, Trifolium Repens, is often to be found growing with the red, and the combinations of color and per hands,\u2019 says the old proverb, and eo, fumes are 8 delight \u2018to the penses of because the dandelion is not rare, we smell and sight, Inbel it common,\u2019 and contemn it ac.landelion, so called |, + from the fancied resemblance ta petals TS SRIVK.and dawn returning breetbed spread, | Rolled with the weight of dews from heaven's high shed.WILD SWEET CLOVER.Yellow Meltlot, Melllotus Oficiaalls, Pes Family.the beautiful and the sweetly odorous.Country people bang it up in their houses for the purpose of catching flies, and, if flies have any taste, they must certainly prefer such a trap to the web of the spider.Ju Furope the Melilota are used for forage, but cattle on this side the \u2018herring pond,\u2019 do not seem to care for them.Melilotus, interpreted from the Latin, means \u2018Honey lotus,\u201d a poetical and appropriate title.La Children who early range these slopes and For cresses from the rills, Have k thee eying.afl an April day, Toe spricging pastures asd A dina ne Equisetum Arvense, or Horstaile, je « curious little plant, which loves wet, HORSETAILS, No.1\u2014Equisetum Arvense.2.\u2014Fquisetum Bylvatlsum.3.\u2014Rection of the spike enlargsd.4\u2014A peltate scale with seven sporanges beneah (or one compound eporange), magnified.bak spore wilh its elators bighty mag.nitied.to eight inches high, the eathes are cut into long brown teeth, and these may be regarded sa whorls Boon the Wild Sweet Clover will be |of united leaves; the spike is cone-like in growing on every roadside, thick and |*hape, and composed of scales arranged fi nt, yellow and white, an rovre pes latenlly fo the farmer, but a joy to the lover ol globular, each with four elaters or elastic How the Jound beads, on herb and leaf out- land from six ah bearing beneath The spores are THE « LINGUIN,® 4 1 \u2014 A MONSTER OF JAVA, The story of the discovery of this ex- truordinary monster-a reptile called the \u2018Linguin,\u2019 a sort of missing link between the ichthyomuri of pre-historic days and the well-known saurians of present times, or, in other words, between the mons trous lisard-like crentures of long ago And the alligators of to-day\u2014which lives in Java, is told by Baron Pereira, \u2018I was,\u2019 says Baron Pereira, \u2018one morning in February, 1898, travelling in a large Javanese canoe with the Amsistant-Resi- dent Metman, himself a well-known sportaman.At dawn we found ourselves close to the mouth of the Batavia river.The water at this point was mit.and rable difficulty in making beadway against the breeze.Suddenly there wes enormous excitement among the Malays who manned the bost, \u201cLinguin! Linguin!\u201d re posted the steermman seizing me by the arm as he shouted, and pointing excitedly towards the muddy shores along whicis we were coasting at a distance of about a hundred «nd fifty metres, \u2018It was Lerely light, and all thes I cculd make out was the long, dark form of some large creature lying in the mud, I seized my rifle, but not knowing in the least what a linguin might be, hesitated to shoot.However, the natives grew ir- patient.\u201cLinguin!\u201d* they cried again.\u201cShoot!\u201d Khoot!™ \u2018Standing up 1 took hasty sim and fired Iratantly there was a tremendous com: motion in the mud.I saw a huge crea ture whirling round and round in the liquid oose, like the firework called a catherine wheel.A shout of triumph rise from my crew, and the atéeraman, seizing a ecimitar plunged overboard, swam to shore, entered the mud, snd a tacked the enormous brute.The animal spresred to be half crocodile and half snake, having the body of the former snd neck and head of the latter.Upon the approach of the Malay it endeavored to seize him with ite fangs.At length a Final blow wae struck fairly on its reck and \u2018it fell dead.With à good deal of trouble we got it aboard, and its weight nearly bore down under water the gunwale of the bout on the side where we placed it.\u2018Tie length was between nine and ten feet.Although where cut in deep gashes the flesh exposed was all white, there wae no blood owing from any of the wounds.After we had disembarked we carried the carcees along with us, but owing to the numerous cute upon it, it became po de cemposed that we had to leave it be hind, Mr.Metman promised mé that I should «ee plenty more: bil alas) nevef in all the time I wan in Java did 1 sce ' threads attached, involving them wirslly, arother linguin.\u2019\u2014Hong Ki Daily or open when discharged.The cuticle Press.\u2019 we abounds in silex.\u2014\u2014 Through the thick corn the sesrlet poppies acd round green roots and yellowing statis ee Pale pluk convelvulus in tendrils creep; And air-sweet lindens yield Thelr scent, and rustle down their perfumed Ot bloom on the bent grass whers I am nid.The Hedge Bindweed, or Convolvulus Sepium, with ita white or rose-colored HEDGE BINDWERD, Volvulus (Convolvyl- us), Septum, Convolvulys Family.bedge-rows, with its dark, halberd-shap- ed leaves, Besides the Sepium, we have & variety known as the Spitham- ses, which is often to be found twined around tall weeds and bushes.Such sre, in brief, à few of our commonest plants, so abundant as to be generally little prized; but, as health is teo little prised until we lose it, a0 would these common flowers be prized in : the memory if they should appear on earth no more.In she meantime, we live à chance to inelude them in the affection we should feel for all the gi£te of nature, and to sing with Milton: Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising oot With charm of earliest bird; pleasant the When \u2018frst on (his delightful laa be Mie orient beams où berb, tres, fruit and tr ADVERTISEMENTS.\u2014 campanulste flowers, is the glory of the \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 morning as it twines sbout fences and THE NORTH-WEST\u2014CANADA.Oh, would ye hear, and would ye hear Of the windy, wide North-Weet?Faith! \u2018tis a land as green as the ses, \u2018That rolls as far and rolls as free, With drifts of flowers, so many there be, Where the cattle roam and rest, Ob, could ye see, and could ye see The great gold skies so clear, The rivers that race through the pine shade dark, The mountainous snows that take no mark, Sun-lit and high on the Rockies stark, Bo far they seem as near, Then could ye feel, and could ye feel How fresh is a Western night! When the long land-breezes rise and pass And sigh in the rustling prairie grass, When the dark blue skies are clear as * glans, And the same old stars are bright.But could ye know, and for ever know The word of the young North-West! A word she breathes to the true and bold, A word misknown to the false and cold, A word that never was spoken or sold, But the one that knows is blest, \u2014Moira O'Neill, in \u2018Blackwood\u2019s Magazine.\u201d Enameline when applied, is most BRILLIANT, and that is the effect you want when using astove polish.When an old stove is polished It should look as bright as new\u2014that Is the result when you use Enameline.It is put up in paste, cake or liquid form.1 Bro Ti 000\" fromm relies bought Toners Bowes haseth, is or wien he Pronos skied the bracing chil of of vosEr ground, oak it te oats THE dew: fragrant the forute Remember that every pack~ 8 3 ov at blows, and when ite .very p n babi +.; ae.- the Bronewiek diamond, and occapies golden, Fouls are sone, ita plumed seeds, inl Rice Eure oo: inconspicuous © attract much attention After sett saowers: me swest {be coming age is guaranteed, , monde of the hive variety.In color acme of airiness and grace.The leave 1 watihed from bending grasses dow the voll.worth aLentioo and will es si le dur tte pied St 2 $24 quality it da the exnet match of the! in the eariy springtime make a dalicious |;y DES or he of [loss obascvation: pecially with the ca, tae of neuves, dar où Je L.PRESCOTT & CO, Tork Hope diamond.In shape it wight wel) ray Muss.grmmed beds microscope.The Tertlle stocss aor ' nome starry , same) volad and\\vegetable, and besides being 4 ! = : GORDON'S LAST DAYS We T Art SOLE SURVIVOR OF A RELIEF \\_PARTY TELLS OF THE MAS \u201c.SACRE OF BRITE 7-3 ; OFFICERS.|\" When Gordon was sorely beset by the hordes of the Mahdi who invested Khar tuum in 1884, he sought to open up com\u2019 municstion with Dongola for the pur fe] of hastening on the relief promised Lim sore months before by the British Government, Io the hour of need be wrote: \u2014 \u2018How many times have we written ask: irg for reinforcements, calling your serious attention to:the Soudan! No answer at all has come to us as to what has been decided in the matter, and the hearts of en have become weary of this delay.While you are eating, drinking and resting on good beds, we and those with us ~-toth soldiers and servants\u2014are waich- ing by night and day endeavoring to quell the movement of this false Mahdi, Uf course, you take no interest in »up- pressing this rebeilion, the serious cons®- Quences of which are the reverse of vie turious for you, and the neglect there |.cre will not do.\u2018In two days\u2019 time Colonel Stewart, tbe Vics-Governor-Genersl, and the two consuls will start from here to Berber, end thence to Dongola.The resson why 1 have now sent Col.Stewart is because yeu have been silent all this while and bave neglected us, and lost time out doing any good.If troops were sent as soon as they reach Berber this rebellion will cease and the inhabitants will return to their former occupations.JW is therefore hoped that you will listen to all that is told you by Stewart und the consuls and look at it seriously, snd send troops, as we bave , without any delay.By sending these men away oa this mission full of peril Gordon was left without a single compatriot to help him in keeping the rebels at bay.Ofie of the members of this ill fated expedition has just reached Cairo.He was found among she prisoaers released by the Sirdar after the battle of Omdurman.His ame is Hassan Hasanen, and be is the wole survivor of the expedition sent by Gordon to bring relief to the beleaguered dty of Khartoum.For years Hasmn, whose life was spared by a treacherous sheik, wandered s prisoner over the Nu Man desert, following tbe nomsdic wanderings of El Mahdi and his successor, the Khalifs.From his lips comes the story of how Colonel Stewart and Frank VL correspondent of tue London es.fell, ruthlessly butchered by the Mahdi\u2019s followers.§ ne months before the expedition started Gordon received news that the relief for which be bad wuited so pa tiently was on its way.\u201cI was in Khartoum,\u2019 says Hassan, \u2018in the Arabic year 1301 (1884).The city eras then in desdly peril, for we had been lcog besieged, provisions were pcarof and the dervishes were pressing on night and day.Gordon wanted to open up communication with the Britidh troops coming to our assistance.At the eame time he wished to send away as many women end children as possible, that they should escape hardship and the risk of falling into the enemy's bands.1 was ordered by Gordon Pacha to proceed upon the \u2018Abbas\u2019 with Colonel Stewart, taking charge of the mail, my orders te ing to hand it to any one in authority at Dongola.I was besides to help as sn interpreter.\u2018There were with us on the launch from Khartoum Consul Herkin, Frank Power, several Greeks and others whose rames | forget.The rest of the party\u2014 mostly Greeks and Berbereen merchants -together with the women and children, followed in two native ssiling craft, call ol puggars.Gordon gave us for pilots two experienced Dongola reises or cap Mine; for armement a small osnnon, with a number of Remingtons and plentiful supply of ammunition.Two of the Pacha's armed eteamers wore told off to us past Berber, so as to afford us im.\u2018Gordon gave special instruction to the eteambont captain \u201cthat as soon as the \u2018Abbas\u2019 and muggers passed south of Berber, the latter town was to be hotly bémbarded for three days.This wa done to ensble us to escape over the cataracts in mfety, to give us in short a good start, eo that we should escape pursuit.All weat well enough until we got to Berber.There the dervish gor rison opened fire upon the flotilla, firing five rounds at us.It was high Nile, the river being full, so we managed to pase without being hit.\u2018Below Berber we cest off the miling brats we had in tow, intending that they should sail down, while we in the \u2018Abbas\u2019 steamed ahead, Now jt turned out thet the captains of the armed stesmers which had accompanied us de- clived to remain behind or to execute Gerdon's ordess to bomberd Berber.Fear of traitorous conduct alone explains their strange and sudden behaviour.Without engaging the enemy they stesw- M ADVERTISEMENTS.Headaohe Bhidusness, stomach, constige H sour tionfand ait liver (Île are cu y a Pille non-irritatine eathertic.red Bip déprime The recent visit of King Humbert and Queen Margherita of Italy, with two of the Italian Ministers of State, to the large and important island of Sardinia, which is part of their kingdom, was made the opportunity for demonstra tions of friendly regard by France, and England; but at different sea-ports, and THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, THE ROYAL VISIT TO SARDINIA.A CHARACTERISTIC PHOTOGRAPH OF THE KING AND QUEEN OF ITALY.\u2014London \u2018Graphic.\u2019 not on the same day\u2014in sending their naval squadrons to do honor to ther Italian Majesties.The British Channel squadron, under the command of Vice Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, with Rear Admiral Brackenbury, second in com- rand having come over from Gibraltar, lay in Aranci Bay, consisting of H.M.5.\u201cMajestic, the flag-ship, and seven other powerful speiimens of the British fleet, à force scarcely ever before displayed in these waters.These vessels were joined by the Italian squadron, in appear ance highly effective, and both wers te- viewed together by the King of Italy, who was accompanied by the Minister of Marine, on board the royal yacht Te vois.Hoepitalities were also personally exchanged by their majesties dining with Admiral Sir H.Rawson and the other commanding officers on the \u2018Majestic,\u2019 as well as by the reception of these oili- cers at the palace.ed hurriedly pest, returning toward Khartou: m.\u201cMeantime the miling bosta, with the refuges Greeks and women and children, had to drift down as best they could in the face of the strong wind.A litle steam launch called the \u2018\u201cTowfkieb,\u2019 which the dervishes had lying concealed at Berber, started in pursuit of our seil- boste the instant our gunboats turned back.Bhe had mo difficulty in overhaul ing and capturing them, with all on beard.The \u2018Tewfikieh' failed to overtake the \u2018Abbus\u2019 =o we struggled along pest Abu Hamed, into the great gorge cataracts lying between that place and Merawi.\u2018Our reises heard and saw 6 good deal of the dervishes.I suspected their good faith, but Colonel Stewart insisted on re posing perfoct confidence in them.On the second day beyond Berber they Ve gan disputing with each other.Early on the third day, when opposite Sala- menieha village, in the Monassir country, our pilots contended whether the \u2018Abbas\u2019 should be taken down the left or right channel of the island.They took the east side watercourse.\u2018Very moon after we bumped twice very beavily upon sunken rocks, knock: ing & great hole in the vesel, through which the water came pouring in.; one] Stewart had the launch run hard ashore upon a little islet to prevent her winking.The gun and ammunition he bed thrown into the Nile, which was about fifty feet deep at that point.We reanaged to save most of the baggage and the puot.Our reises decemped, swim ning off to the mainland, and in an came back, gay they us the word \u2018Ananu\u2019 (pence fellowship).The natives, they mid, were not dervishes, but friendly to the govern ment and to Mustapha Yower, of Dor gols, and would provide ua with camels.\u2018Colonel Btewsrt d off me, the cavam and an Arabic Met ta take punt and row ashore and find cut if the news was true.I begged noi to send us, 84, being Egyptians, the of Then they brought ue the Koran snd Col.village.and of men, in ali about fifty, most of thera Yim ready, but invited ns to partake of coffee natives would probably kill us.The best thing, I said, wes to send the punt with a few men down to Dongola and see if the English had arrived.He declined to allow it, and declared we must go ashore at once or he would kill us, so we went.\u2018On reaching the village we met three muen in native dress.One of them was blind; his name wes Wild Gamr Atman.He wes the brother of the Sheik of the place.Atman asked us what was the metter, and baving exchavged \u2018Amanu,\u2019 we told him thet it wes God's will that our steamer should be wrecked there.swore on the book that they would not injure us, but supply us ell with camels and guides and send us down to Dongols, where the English were.Wo returned with the news, two of the patives ac companying us to the islet.Then the two Monaseir again swore upon the Kor an not to act treacherously.Next day two natives returned to ue.saying Sheik Suleiman had arrived, snd they had already secured several camels for us, while the remainder would socn be ready.The road to Dongola ran direct through their village, so we should start from there.Btewsrt and the con suls ordered us to transport all the bag: gage st once to the mainland near the By ope o'dock we were al ashore seated upon our bundles, waiting for the camels.A messenger came from the Sheik inviting Stewsrt, Herbin and Power to dinner, Stewart and the otb- ers dressed in their best clothes and went, taking me with them to spesk Arabic.\u2018We reached the Sheik's bouse in the village and were shown to a small, rather dirk room.The place was \u2018crammed full seated on the floor or standing.Bulei man snd Atmen were there and we ex changed greetings.All wore ordinary native dothes.They gave us two angar- ops to sk upon.Btewart and Power sat together and Herbin and I side by side.The Bheik sid the camels would soon he Less than ten minutes passed when all the men who bad gone out on tbe Dre text of fetching the camels to hasten our departure returned heavily armed with sxes, swords, knives and spears.As they entered they shouted \u201cKaffir!\u201d \u201cInfidels 1\u201d One of them struck Hesbin with an axe, deaving his head in two as be sat beside me.I sprang up, scream: ing 1 was a brother\u2014e Mobemmedan\u2014 pot to kill me as they did the other.A man nearly severed my right arm with a knife\u2014there is the wound\u2014while I clung and dashing in smong them struck out right and left.He managed to get to the door through the mob, but was hack: and dates while wailing.; absolutely MODEST AND LEAL, COL.MACDONALD ASCRIBES THE FINE WORK OF HIS BATTALION TO LORD KITCHENER'S FORESIGHT.The exact truth about a battle only comes out by degrees, and is not known until jong siter the first excitement.Even the accounts of such trained eye witbesses as our modern War corrumon- denta are apt to be minleading, if not wrong.All the published reports of the battle of Omdurman, for instance, agreed that the mos brilliant \u201c| teat of arma of the day was that achiev ed by Brig-Gen.Macdonald, whose brigade was caugbt unexpectedly between two divisions of dervishes, and wes only saved from immolation-by s rapid change of front, which enabled it to repulse & second attack from the rear, after clear ing ite front.It was implied by more than one correspondent that uhe poesi- bility of wach an attack bad been unforeseen by Lord Kitchener, and that grave disaster was only averted by the re sourcefulness and promptitude displayed by General Macdonald.No doubt the latter acquitted himself nobly, fully justifying the confidence reposed in him, but in # speech which he delivered the other day in Glasgow he gave a very different account of the whole affair.He .| declared that it was be who attacked \"| the dervishes, not the dervishes who attacked him; that the situation had been foreseen by Lord Kitchener, who had provided him with three batteries of ar- tillory end several Maxim quus, with which be was able to annibilate the firet attack at long range, and that he was in readiness for the wscond attack before it developed.The completeness of the -| enemy\u2019s rout was due to the admirable fire ine of the British The sim of Kitchener's tegy, he ded, mas to 051 of the from THE AMAZON.Le \u2014 AN EXPLORING RXPEDITION'S RE MARKABLE VOYAGEA Washington despsich says: The Mary Departnent bas just received from Lows: mander Todd, of the \u2018Wilmington,\u2019 an interesting scrount of the remarkable voy- sge of exploration up the Amason river made by Liat vessel in April last.Maxn- sae, at the junction of the Rio Negro, with the Amazon, bas heretofore been regarded as the bead of navigation for steam vessels, and from that fact has grown tn be a prosperous city of forty thousand inhabitants.Consequently the intention of Captain Todd to ascend above that pont ceused cvnsternstion, and in the end, as revealed by subse quent reports, led to some adverde demonstrations egainet the American consul and agsinet the native pilots who as- visted the \u2018Wilmington\u2019 to make the voyage.Captain Todd succeeded, notwithstanding these obstacles, in ascending the Ainazon for a thousand miles above Man- aos and had it not been for lack of fue he could have stesmed two hundred miles ferthee.The possibilities of the successful navigation of the vast and bi unknown interior of Bouth Americe re vealed by Captain Todd's voyage will, it ia believed, be of the grestest commercial importance, and the navy department probably will take steps to see that they are made known to the maritime world.-\u2014\u2014\u2014=\u2014ér\u2014 EATEN BY ALLIGATORS, TWO TEXAS CHILDREN SNATCHED FROM THEIR MOTHER'S ARMS.A despatch from San Antouio, Texas, of May 17, says that on the previous evening alligators attecked Paul R.Na- gele and his family, who wer camping oa the bank of the bayou or lagoon running from the shore of Espontos lake, in Dim- mitt county.The lake, although far in- Lind, is literally alive with alligators.been warned by a settler not 5 ! 5 à £ E » fi Going to them to ascertain cause, be wes attacked by an alligator.He beat it off with an axe.His wife cried for nssistance, and when be reached ber an alligator bad their four-yesroid girl in its jaws.While attempting to rescue the child the mother dropped au infant from her erms which was seieed by enother alligator.The distressed parents were poweriess to give aid to the litle ones.The mother narrowly es- coped with her life, and suffers from a fearful wound on the thigh.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 AN INCIDENT OF PORT ROYALIST.London, May 20.\u2014Particuisrs have just been received in London regarding the incident of the hoisting of the British flag over Port Royalist, Island of Pala- wan, of the Philippine group, by Captain Pfort, of the British steamer Laub\u2019 He reports that he visited the island on Feb.1, and found the people in a state of consternation.The Spaniards, it appears, had left there three months previously, after saying the Americans would take over the government in three days.The Spaniards, it is added, turned the native soldiery adrift and liberated the convicts.The head man, it is further asserted, asked Captain Pfort to secure protection from the Gorernor of Sanda- kan, and the captain gave them a British merchant ensign, with instructions for the people to say, if they were molested, that they were under British protection, also handing the head man a letter to this effect and claiming a British protec torate over Palawan.On reporting matter to Sir Charles Mitchell, Governor of the Straits Settlement, the latter communicated with the British Foreign Office, who cabled orders to Bingapore to haul down the British flag.The British thirdclses cruiser \u2018Archer\u2019 was de spatched to haul down the flag, the ef- cials of the Foreign Office mying that Palawan and the adjacent islands, being rtions of the Philippine group, becamas, virtue of conquest.American terri: Soap fills the waot perfecity.@ sanve a DARE.Semana BIG BARGAIN BUDGET t Te.Swabia vow of Du =m BATS SAT Sol ee ass SE ù - LN 14 THR OFTHE HOU Major Marchand Reaches Paris and is Accorded an Enthus.lastic Welcome, THANKED RY THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES FOR HIS SERVICES IN AFRICA.Paris.June 2\u2014At three o'clock yesterday afternoon Major Marchand, the Afri- vam explorer, drove to the Fiyste Palnce.The crowds along the 1oute cheered the army, the Marine Minister and Mar ehand.Immense throngs of people surrounded the palace, and rhouts of \u2018Down welcome from his own countrymen France, wid the | long journey across Africa.Had he come to grief on his way back from Fa.shoda, as reported, happily falsely, it je probable that the dissster would have again embittered the relations «f the French and British, which are gradually becoming more friendly again.All British ofiicers and explorers who work in Africa, but especially Lord Kitchener, anil My, Stanley hive express ed the highest appreciation of the pluck and persistence, the ability snd skill with which he conducted a considerable body of wen across the three thousand miles of African jungle hetween the mouth of the Cong> and Fashoda on the Nile, and got there in time, ne he was ordered hy his government to do 15 forestall the arrival of the British under Lord Kitchener, who had, however, to smash the Mahili's forces on the way.Major Marchand met no resistance at MAJOR MARCHAND.with Panama\u2019 caused the arrest of + Dumber of those who gave vent to their feelings in that manner.After a tour of the other ministries, Major Marchand reached the Military Club.Thers wore immense erowds in the neighboring street, the windows were filled with spectators and the roofs were covered with people.Major Marchand and Captain Baratiere appeared on the balcony of the club in response to cries, which were then re doubled.A dramatic scene occurred at the Military Club in the course of the evening.Major Marchand, in response to lvud cheering, ap upon the balcony with the minister of marine, M.Lockroy, and the minister of war, M.Krante, on either side of him, and shouted, Vive la France; vive la Republique.\u2019 The throngs went wild with excitement.The Chamber of Deputies in the evening adopted a resolution of thanks to Major Marchand for his services in Africa, and to General Gallieni for his brilliant administration in dagascar.The Military Club's reception to the members of the mission was à very brilliant affair.Speeches were made by M.Lock- roy and General Zurlinden, who paid eloquent tributes to the work of the expedition.Major Marchand, sfter a brief expression of thanks, made a tour of the rooms, shaking hands with those present.The demonstration in he Place de l\u2019Opers was aot surpassed anything of the kind during the Boulanger agitation.Fully 30,000 people congregated , and when the mail coach returned Versailles, and was obliged to run imto the excited crowd, it had a narrow tecape, and was saluted with hostile cries.The le made an ugly rush for the wehicle.but the police executed two energetic charges and enabled the passengers to alight safely.THE STORY OF RIS SPLENDID \"MARCH ACROBS AFRICA.It waa the French Government which met with a most humiliating defeat in the valley of the Upper Nile, in its at- by tempt to bar the way of the British through the Soudan, to tral Africa.France has yielded to Britain all that Pritain ever claimed, the whole valley GE the Nile, including the Bahr-e)-Ghazel ince, and that without a rupture ot| ir friendship, Jet alone bloodshed, so hat alt in well that ends well.< Majee Marchand did not fail in the dificult mission which the French Gov.arnment set him, but, on the contrary, schieved a remarkable success, and the Brivieh peuple bave no quarrel with him peld ungrudging and outspoken and prise for bis Er SE A mr Bnd 4 29 the hands of the Dervishes or of the natives of Central Africa, though he had to put down a rebellion while passing through the Lower French Congo coun- tre at the beginning of his journey.But he had to surmount obstacles and difficulties of the most formidable charscter.When he reached the border of the Babr-el-Ghazel province he had before him one of the most deadly of all malarial countries the world over.For months he and his comrades worked bard in a country in which Europeans are supposed to be hardly able to exist by nursing their strength carefully.He had bad to get immense quantities of supplies through and also a small gunbout, which had to be transported in eections across the swampe which form the divide between the tributaries of the Nile and the Congo.When he had succeeded in getting his expedition to the banks of the Nile tributary, the Ghaszel, where it was navigable, he had before him s great marsh stretching out of sight to the north, south, and east, through which there was a pet.work of channels.Moreover, the marsh was a moving one, being in reality great growthe of aquatic weeds, matted together and floating on a great inland Inke, Vast areas of this marsh are moved about by the currents of the river or by the winds and thus are ever blocking up old channels and opening up new ones.Through this labyrinth Marchand had to make his way for many days.Geum Pusha, Gor don\u2019s governor of the Bahrel-Ghasel, attempted to make his way out by the sme route as Major Marchand, and he with a wnall ermy of three hundred men with their families, would cartate Is have been lost had they not been res cued by steamers from Khartoum.Major Marchand, was lucky, probably, in bap pening upon & season when the river Was more open than usual and the flont- ing vegetation or \u2018wdd,\u2019 ee it is ealied, was not as plentiful as usual.The fol lowing ie a semi-official account of Major Mareband's expedition : Major Marchand embarked at Mar veilles, June 25, 1806.Accompanied My 1 Captains Baratier, Germain, and Magin, Lieutenant Larisau, Lisutenant Mori, of the Navy, by Ensign Dye.by Intes preter Landerouin, by Dr.Emily, by twelve French non-commissioned officers, and 180 Benegaless sharpshooters, he dis jembarked \u2018at Losngo on July 25.De layed, owing to the pecemsity of cut his way through to Brasserille and [Babin native rebellion, and also throuek the sickness of its chief, the ex- j edition did not set out for the upper river until March 1, 1807.At Kwango Marchand received formation from Liotard, the - ernor of the Upper French Congo region, that, au the latter was going to occupy ber, tbe former Mudirieh of Lup- oh be fo foflow the, Tazobara f / British peoplé ald WL gown for Lx rejoice ovet bis safe return after his mètres have had any experience of exploration | THE MONT and Bahr-el hazel rouf Unfortunate nt a journey of 500 kilo- the marshy lauds of that region.Fearing that he might land in a \"cul de-sae at Meshra-el-Rek, Marchand de., terminesl to transport from the Mbomu to the Hahr-el-tihazel the whole of the flo.! tilla carvving his provisions.He divided his little troop into two aections\u2014conroy | and flotilla.The road selected followed the course ol the Mbomu.This river, which is studded with dame, rapide, and falls in its lower reaches, epjoved the evil reputation of not being navigable.On May 1 the j lirst group began work on the bydrogre- | Phy of the lower watercourse, completing the task in twenty days, making note of the falls of Hansen, Zorobangn, Trikawe, Tugoufoura, and Bugusase, besides organizing portages with sections of road ten meters wide, and slides or chutes constructed with the trunks of trees at the thirty other smaller falls.The second group, which had gone on ahead, launeb- ed boate and barges on the river, occe- sionally hauling them sehore on rollers with the aid of 1,700 or 1,800 men, or at times navigating the reaches of water between repids, where the boate, etc, were towed by hcavily-manned vative cances; they reached a point on the river above Bonguché.Their object was to reconnoitre the upper course of the Mbomu; should it not prove navigable they would have lo «rom 700 kilometres oi foreet, marshes, sud ravines, an alinost superhuman task.Happily the Upper Mbomu possesses a magnificent waterstretch or reach 800 kilometers in extent.where it was feasible to steam es far es its junction with the Ada, seventy miles from Tambura\u2014i.e, in the basin of the Nile.Ou June 1 Captain Raretier etarted with three cances to engage in hrdro- sraphic work.On Aug.3 he arrived unimpeded at the junction of the Mérs.On Sepi.10 the flotilla reached this point, some 3,330 kilometres from Brez- zaville and seventy kilometres from the basin of the Nile.During this time Marchand, who had weaded his way into the basin of tha rivers Tondj and Jur, obeerved the political situation and PUSHED ON AS FAR AS LADO, in order to ascertain either the presence of a Belgian or Englich expedition coming from the south.t now became necessary to discover the point of departure of the Nilotic waters, in order to open up a road between that point and the terminus of the navigability of the Mbomu.Marchand himself, leaving Baratier in command, proceeded, with a few sharp-shooters, in search of the point where the Such, below the falls over which it flows from the high plateau, becomes navigable on entering into the Valley of the Nile.He emharked on this river in a dug-out, with his little escort, and after o three days\u2019 eventful navigation arrived 120 kilometres further at the confleent of the News.Work was begun as soon as he bad rejoined his men.A road, five metres wide and 100 kilometres long, was opened in a month\u2019s time by 200 tharpshoot- ers and 1,000 natives, from the landing place of the Mars, navigable terminus of the Congo-Mbomu-Roru-Boku, to the landing place of Kodjalé, on the Sueh, where the Sueh-Wau-Rahr-el-Ghazel begin to be navigable.Kodjalé became en arrenal roet, to which were added build.FLN dt VUE oper ue \\ NL \\ , \\ 3 EN NN ge ing slips.Fort Deeaix (formerly Kut- chuk-Ali) was oceupied, at the furthermost end of the Sueh.Between the two, lat.8 degrees 52 minutes.North, the intermediary post of the Rapids wes created.In November, 1807, the mission was installed on this solid bese, with heed- quarters at Fort Demix, seven kilometres distant from the former residence of Gessi Pasha.The Diukas and their vassale, the Drouds, were won over during the winter.In February-March, 1897, on a rumor coming to hand that an expedition of white men coming from the south was near Adjak.skilful military measures were taken.The chiefs Golo and Djinjusi, surprised at this incursion, offered their amistance.Lieut.Gouly died of haematuric fever st this june- ture.On March 9, Captain Barstier and tbe interpreter Landerouin, returned from a most erduous reconneisance from the Bahr-e-Ghaze! to the confluence of the Bahrel-Arsb and of Lake No; dur ing ten weeks which it lasted he HAD ESTABLISHED THE FOLLOWING POSTS : Tambugs, lat.3 degrees 35 minutes, long.25 degrees 08 minute ; Kodjalé, lat.6 degrees 08 minute; the Kapide, lat.degrees 52 minutes, long.23 degrees 40 minutes; at the junction of the Ouaou | (Wau *) and Bush rivers, hat.7 degrees THE FRENCH CRUISER \u2018D'ASSAS!\u2019 ment to visit Cairo and communicate with the French Government, and after some difficult and unpleasant negotiations France decided early in Novem: ber to withdraw Major Marchand and his forces from Fashoda unconditionally, The route chosen was through Abye- sinia to -Jibutil, and early in January Major Marchand and his forces set out with their gunboat, the \u2018 Faidherbe\u2019 and à flotilla of boats, to ascend the Sobat river.They surveyed the valley of So- bat on their way and reached the Abyssinian capital, Adis Abiba, early in April, On May 20 the gallant Marchand and his fine little force arrived safe and well at Jibutil, march of 1,300 miles from Fashods.together Major Marchand must have crossed Africa by a route over £300 miles, much of it through extremely dif- fienlt country to get through, but all of it in regions which had al passed through and explored\u2019 41 minutes, long.25 degrees 45 minutes.(Fort Desaix, at a distance of seven kilometres down stream; Meshra-er-Rek, Bahr-el-Arab, Rambek, Djour-Ghat'as, Bia, and Azak.The Bahr-el-Ghazel was divided into three circles\u2014circle of Bahr.e)-Ghazel, Rohl, and Sueh.Jt was on May 1 that Marchand start- od Jor Fashoda, which he reached on uly 10.The Franco-Abyminian expedition, which was despatched under French commaud- ers to occupy the country east of the Xile, up to the mouth of the Sobat, and thus join hands with Major Marchand at Fashoda, had successfully reached a point within a short distance of Sobat early in June, or about three weeks before Major Marchand\u2019s arrival, but whe ther because of a defeat suffered there, or because of the ravages of the moist climate upon the health of the Abys- vinians, a panic seized the expedition and it returned pell-meïl to Abyssinia, When General Kitchener, after defeat [1 ing the Khalifa at Omdurman, on Sept.2, arrived with bis gunboats and forces at Fashode he found Major Marchand in poesession of the posts.Nevertheless, he posted an Anglo-Fryptian force, con- fining the French strictly to a small ares (And sent a steamer with a force to eceu- , PY Sobat, which was found unoccupied.Major Marchand and Captain Bara- tier were allowed by the British Govern.SIA NC TROPIC OPTCANCER AB ol \"of od! H fia k pen ç pas 3 i ish rule, English and would fight Russia to à man if she attempted to capture India.The tubenic plague was worse in India this year than ever before, but it is confined largely to the lowest class.American travellers need not fear it, and I think $ will run ite course and disappeer within three or four years.AN theless, Major Marchand's & magnificent one.the end of their second long han one European previously.exploit was \u2014\u2014 AN EAST INDIAN SAYS EAST INDIANS TO A MAN WOULD FIGHT FOR ENGLAND AGAINST RUSSIA.(Chicago \u2018Inter-Ocean,\u2019 May 19.) Bustum D.N.Wadia, of the Inner Temple, London, snd Malabar Hill, Bombay, is at the Auditorium.Mr.Wadis 12 of the Parsee sect and is à graduate of Bombey university and a barristerat.law.\u201cI am in America studying the people and their conditions of hfe,\u2019 said Mr.Wadis yesterday.\"I hope to go back and lecture on America before my people.The Parsees are a peculiar people.They are of the Zoroastran religion, thotste, be- Heving in a single God.There are only 0 eighty thousand Pareses in the world, fifty thousand of them being in Bombay, They came originally from Perma and for « long time were the leading merchants of Bombay.their time travelling end in study.I know of only one other Parsee who ever \u201d came to America.Now they spend \u2018India is advancing rapidly under Brit.The natives of India like the \u2014_\u2014\u2014 VISITORS IN SWEDEN.A simple couple, an Englishman apd his wife, had driven out to one of the more famous suburbs of Stockholm, and had been particularly struck with the beauty of a villa th among the woods.their sojourn in Sweden that tea-houses generally occupy the coign of vantage in noticed perched laving Jearned in | resorts of this kind, the tourists ven- IN 5 walking in the \\ the view from the house, the three fell into conversation, tre A 7 w 3 F : F i i è ë MAJOR MARCHAND'S ROUTE.ex.visions of Africe which te-day je pretty the Bi fom ns perpendic r lines, French with otal, end German and Portagues tured to accost a gentleman they saw rden.Invited to we and were presently ined by à very charming lady on the y.Refreshments were offered and accepted.and the hostess, in doing the honors of the tea-table, began to speak of ber love of England, and of the pont of Keswick, in the Lake country.very distinguished conntryman of yours every year to Keswick,\u2019 said the Eng- fohmenc mean the Crown Prince of Sweden.\" \u2018Yen said the lady, ftbat ie « how we know the Lake distri well.We go to Keswick for the Chufch Con- with lines starting in opposite directions.| ference.\u2019 \u2018But I was speaking of the Egypt, though nominally under the sus- Crown Prince,\u2019 repested the dered erainty of Turkey, ie really te visitor.So was I\u2019 ssid the\\ hostess, of Great Britain, and bas been siarked with o senile ; \u2018my husbeod is thi) Crows scocrdingly.Prinos of Sweden.\u201d ~ | been 22000 | \u2014 - + « 4 TOT a mm CT ag Junx 6, 1899.BRITISH NEWS.ENGLISH.Lord Herschell died, leaving £183,000.Swallowing an artificial tooth bas cacs- od the death of a young soldier in Loa- don.Another death has oœurred from an- threx, this time at Liverpool.\u2018The deceased, John Egerton, was a tanner, Cardiff is suffering from à period of over-building.It is estimated that the number of vacant dwellings is 8,000.In a lobster tin, which bad heen thrown into an apple tree at Beccles, a bird has built its nest and laid aigüt gus.It is probable that a few feet of as phalt will be Said along each wide of the Thames embeuknwent for the use of cyclists.In twelve mouths railway wockdents in the United Kingdom caused the death of 43 persons (including 25 passengers, 16 railway servants), and injury to 748, (632 passengers, 110 railway servants and three other persons).\u2018 At Polegate, near Eastbourne, Ernest Tiller and thres other lada were playing with a revolver, when Tiller mid to a companion named Watson: \u2018Here, Erney, shoot me, and put me out of my misery.\u2019 The was discharged, killing Tiller on ti pot.For 40 years the lizard orchid bas been lost to the British flora, but the authorities of the Kent and Sussex Agricultural College certify that it has been redis- coveretl on the Kentish Downs, where 13 ous of the 20 varieties of British orchids bave been found.Among the vast number of churches in England that have adopted resolutions of protest against Sunday newspapers, ia that at Queen's Park, where Dr, Lawson Forster, formerly of Montreal, after a sermon on \u2018Oromtwell,\u2019 invited the congregation, number about 1,000 peewons, to express their disapproval of the sale of Sunday papers, when the great audience rose en masse.The other night five Laton cyclists left Dunstable for home, and presently all five of them ran into a drove of horses.The animals were all haltered together, and accompanied by à man in charge of a trap.The five riders were pitched heavily to the ground, and three of them sustained serious injuries.The five machines were all smashed.Advorates of the scheme for coonect- \u2018ing Great Britain and Ireland by means of a Channel tunnel have resolved to form themselves into a committee, with the view of pressing the subject upon the attention of the government.It is hoped that the Treasury may presently be induced to grant a few thousand pounds for the purposes of a preliminary survey, Alfred White,son of a Cowes shipbuilder, and engineer où board a ship which was lying in Barry Docks, Cardiff, last November, has obtained £1,750 damages in the Queen's Bench against the Dock and Railway Company for personal injuries.He was run over by a ballast train while making his way to his , and both of his feet and part of one hand bad to be amputated.A pumber of children went into a wood-yard near the Spinney Hall Park, Leicester, to play, when planks fell on them and several of them were slightly injured.The next day it tranwpired that Norah Laley, aged eleven, had not returned home, and on some boards being lifted her body was found.She had been buried under the fall, and desth was caused by terrible injuries to the head.An unusual application wes made to the Durham Magistrates, who were asked to grant bail to Samuel Mitchell, who is awaiting trial on a charge of murdering Mary Hardy.Several tradesmen offered substantial bail, but the magie- trates refused to accept it, acting, it is æaid, on æ letter from the Home Secretary, who stated it would be inedvisable to creste such a precedent in murder A gipsy was committed for trial at Bournemouth, charged with fraudulently obtaining money from several persons by selling some innocuous compound as rat and beetle poison.Detective-Sergeant Littlewood caused ambsement by stating that he had been treating a beetle with the compound, and it appeared to grow fatter, while rats, insced of suffering ill effects, enjoyed it The police are endeavoring to track a daring gang of thieves who within the t few weeks bave made extensive auls from numerous churches in South London.Advantage has been tak-n of the custom of leaving the churches open for private devotion to purloin Kanners.plate and prayer books.Ht.John the Evangelist and 8t.Clement, East Dulwich, have suffered moet in this Tespect, John Menzies, a middle-aged laborer, who attempted to commit suicide at , Bunderland by swallowing a large quantity of rat poison mixed in a pint of beer, and\u2019 the contents of whose stomach were sucked through a tube by Dr.Burs, police-surgeon, in consequence of the stomach pump breaking down, died in the workhouse on Baturday night.The 4 is lying seriously ill through the effects of his attempt to save the man's life.| J is said to have been the ceuse of à terrible tragedy that took place the cther night in Ada-street, West Hartle- 1, where à colored man named Thomas mpson shot his wife and afterwards attempted to murder à black man who lodged with him.Mrs.Thompson, afier being shot, crawled from the bedroom in which the deed was committed to the door of a neighbor, where, after exclaiming, \u2018Oh, he has shot me,\u201d sire becaine insensible, dying ehortly afterwerds.On Sunday morning, May 14 last, at the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Castle ford, Yorkshire, à gallery, holding about 80 children, aged from five to fifteen, col- legsed during the service.The strue- ture, which was eight feet high, in -les- cending emashed the pulpit, gas brackets 30, and a cupboard which were underneath, The children fell screaming in « confused heap, but were quickly extricated, when it was found four girls were injured, one having sustuined a broken rib.All were severely shaken.The Cunard steamer * Tyria\u2019 arrived in the Mersey the other day, and landed « number of crates containing no loss than 30,000 living quails, which had been caught in Fgypt and consigned to the London market from Alexandria.The birds were in good condition.The crates in which they were kept had been specially constructed, and arrangements had been made for their being properly fed.Very few died during the voyage from Alexandria to Liverpool.This strange consignment was under the charge of two Egyptians.A shocking discovery was made by a milkman named Joweph Croft, st Penge, while on his usual round.One of his customers was Mr.Rice, of 11 St.John's road, an independent gentleman, whom.in the course of the morning, he found sitting in an armchair deed, and with a revolver in his right hand.It was evidently & case of suiride.No motive can be assigned for the act.It is said, however, that he had been very depress ed ever since his housekeeper left him.At the top of the house was an aviary, the deceased being a bird fancier, and the surroundings showed that the birde bad not been fed lately.Practical use is at last to be made nf the storage of natural gas discovered some time ago at Heathfield, where je- troleum æprings have been found.The £ge which ariees from there subterranean springe han been buwning continvously from a jet for two and a half years, and, as the experiment has proved that the gas ie suitable for practical purposes, it has been decided to light the railway station premises with it.Incandescent burners will be used, as the experimenta show that the gas, with the aid of these burners, is 20 percent more brilliant than ordinary London gas.If there ie auffi- cient volume of gas, an effort will be made to utilize it for lighting the vil- Mr.Commissioner Kerr, whose retirement from the judgeship of the City of London Court has just taken place, had occupied that position for some forty- five years.Long ago he earned for himself the title of \u2018the money-lendeis\u2019 terror.\u201d There was a time when moneylenders in the city had reaped a rich harvest from post-office clerks.Une of these unfortunates appeared before His Honor and explained that although he had paid the original loan some faur times over he still owed nearly twice as much as he bad borrowed.The commissioner marked the flagrant nature of the case by ordering the defendant to pay 4d.per week, or ls 4d.a month, which would have taken him some 283 vears to pay debt and interest.It is doubtful whether the money-lender troubled to collect the weekly instalment.The fourteen ringleaders of the Guernsey Militia, who \u2018 recently mutinied here, have been sent to prison, there being no room to accommodate more.Of the 14, 11 were sentenced to a week's impricon- ment and three to a month.One hundred and thirty-eight of the mutinecrs were simply warned.The men again refused drill.Colonel Leale tried to per aude them to fall in, and after some time intluced them to go into the drill shed, where the Colonel addressed them, the men declining to drill unless Adiu- tant Pym left the iment and their comrades were rel .They ait lett the shed hooting, but 51 returned and drilled hall-heartedly under Col.Leale, who is very popular.Forty pounds have been collected for the wives of the men imprisoned.The practice of throwing rice at weddings was recently the cause of a very nerious accident at Charing, Kent.The Rev.Francis Edward Carter, honorary canon of Canterbury Cathedral, bad been married at Charing Parish Church to à Mise Sayer, of Pett Place, and as they were leaving for the honeymoon trip showers of rice were hurled at the carriage by the villagers anwembled outside the gates.The horses becoming frightened, holted, and running the carriage up à bank overturned it.\u2018The carriage waa smashed, and the bride, who wan badly shaken, bad to be extricatcd from the wreckage.Canon Carter himrell was badly cut about the face by the broken glam, and both he and his bride returned to Pett Place suffering severe ly {rom the shock.In the Probate Division, London, an- plication waa recently made to the president.for leave to presume the death of Major D\u2019Arcy Baker, of Queen's Gate Gardeps, London, who wes stated to Lave perished in the wreck of the \u2018Stella.\u2019 Mr.Priestly, who appeared for the daughter of the Mujor (Alice Fliss Baker), eaid that the was on board \u201che \u2018Stella\u2019 with hw daughter when the bost struck on the rocks off the (asquets, and Mise Baker, in an affidavit stated that when the whip atruck she and her father went below to obtain Lifelelte When they returned to the deck, Major Baker called to somebody on one uf the bouts which wie putting off with the pasengrre, to make room for his daughter.One eman nobly gave up his place stepped back on the \u2018Stella\u2019 and Miss Baker Ii into the boat.Her father and the gen- , Whose name was not known, remained on the \u2018SteHa\u2019 which immediately afterwards went down.Since then nothing had been heard of Major Baker or the gentleman.His Lordship gave lemve to presume death on March An apprentice at Whitehead's Torpedo Works has invented an electric gun that in at ones deadly, noiseless and smokeless, The model which at present represents his ides weighs only seven pounds, but with this tiny gun the moet ratisfactors experiments Lave been nade.At a distance of one mile à target was shattered several times by the explosive contente.At a distance of five niles, in spite of a premature explosion, the target was also nhattered.The velocity of the sliot is entimated at five miles and a half in two seconds.It is reid that the Admiralty have offcred the lad, who is only nineteen, and the son of Mr, J.II.Newman, a Portland grocer, the sum of £75,000 for his invention, and he has refused it.In the meantime the clever inventor has heen asked to build a gun that will weigh one cwt.He is now Lusy doing it at Lome, in such a way #8 0 safeguard his sect.The higger model will probably be ready about July, when a better opportunity wili be given of noting the deadly effects of this wen- pon that shoots in silence and without betraying its presence by « puff of smoke.Tn the village of Machen, à few miles from Newport, Mon, England, a man of seventy wooed and won a darvel of five- and-twenty, and May 12 was fixed for the wedding.At high noon the bride groom was at the church with the par- ron and verger, but the bride came not.Allowance was made for maidenly coyness, hut after waiting 30 minutes the bridegroom went home, declaring that the respect duc to hin age and devotion had not been duly paid.At two o'cock the bride approached the church door\u2014 perhaps she thought it hardly gallant that no lover met her, lax at 70 love's feet are not so swift, and she gave him time.Put after two hours\u2019 waiting she weot home, declaring that men were deceivers ever.The village roseips had a rare time, and speculated whether May and December would ever meet nt the altar after his failure, but when the elderly lover found that his intended bride had waited even longer than bimaelf, and that a simple misunderstanding had arisen ax to the time of the ceremony, he arranged for the wedding to take place the following day so that all ended well.SCOTCH.Lunacy is growing in Scotland.Rince IS68 the increase has been to the extent of 80 percent.The government has placed orders for 150,000 pairs of army boots with contractors in Nortbamptonsbire.A blackbird has its nest, with four eggs, at the top of the goods signal-post at the railway station at North Berwick.Mine Burns, long the landlady of the Royal liotel, Bonunybridge, is dead.This house was for nearly a century in the hands of the Burns family, and was sold à few months ago for over £10,000.It is whispered in Edinburgh that Lady Sybil Primrose, Lord Rosebery's elder daughter, will follow her rister\u2019s example, The suggested hushend is an English peer, who is forty-second cousin of her own.Monsrs.Hawthorne & Co., (Limited), Leith, have received sn order to build « mission hospital steam trawler of shout 300 tons for the Royal Nations) Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen.She is the gift of an anonymous donor.The poorhouse at Cruigleith, which was erected in 1967, at a cost of £65,481, is Lilt of stone.Some additions and im- prevements are understood to have since been made, which are ssid to have cost about £4.50, s0 that the total cost may be taken to bave been £70,000.The attendanee at the half-vearly fair for farm servante wea small.Young women and heys were scarce, and were getting better wages than for some yenre past.Boye were hired at £5 to £7.and women £8 to £9 100, Unmarried ploughmen alwo get good wages, ranzing from £i0 to £12\u2014ell for the hali-year.In giving his decision with regard to a twenty pound note found in King street, Aberdeen, by two boye, Nailie Lyon stated that in consenuonce of conflicting evi dence given on behalf of the claimant, he could not, with any degree of justice, award the note to him.The Bailie therefore dered that the twenty pounds should be equally divided briween the two boys who found it.The Rev.Dr.minister of Brides of Wele Cartes is deed.D.consad had a stroke of apoplexy whilst preparing for & Sunday forenoon service, never ra~avered sone THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, four of and bain ministaé of ridge of Weir lor over ffteen years, and was much esteemed.Dr.Duncan labored sucomafulily in Canada for twen- ty-eight yenrs, and for bis work there in educational matters the Senate of Glas University, à few years ago, con- erred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.He leaves à widow and grown up family.The desth has taken place, at Stirling recently, of Mr, James Hae, retired surgeon, a gentleman of considersble scien: tific attainments, and a survivor of ube of the expeditions to the Arctic regions in search of Franklin, Dr.Kee saw most of his service in the navy, and there were few parte of the world he had not visited.He was su ueatly stationed at Haslar Hospital, and he also held the of deputy-inspector of hospitals.In the medical profeason he occupied a high position.His skill ss a microscopist was well known, and since his retiral from practice his time bre been largely spent in microscopic investigations.He was one of the originnl members of the Stirling Field Chub.wes sixtyeiz Among numerous other claimants for the eight millions or ao left by the late Mr.James Tyron, aheep farmer, Queensland, who died towards the end of last year, ia Mr.Thomas Ormiston, messen- ser, Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh.Ever since the news of the denth of Mr, Tyson, Mr.Ormiston has been interesting himself in the matter of relationship to the deceasedd millionnaire.He seeks, it in understood, to show that his mother, who, like Mr.Tyson, belonged to Nor- thumberland, was o sister of the wealthy sheep farmer, and it need scarcely he said that he is lesving no stone unturned in the \u2018direction of establishing this claim.Mr.Ormiston, a married man wth a large family, in a native of Mont- rose.He was there this week on business, and exerted hiniwelf in securing the signatures of certain individuals who knew him there in his boyhood.Mr, Ormiston, who is about fifty.vears of age, is a respected member of the Barclay Free Church.The young Earl of Reafield, in Scot , who, with his Countess, has just arrived from New Zealand, is 23 years of age.The story of the Earldom, ss it han descended to him, is decidedly romantic.He came into the title 11 years ago on the death vf his father.The late Farl, as head of a collaternl branch of the Grant family, succeeded to the title somewhat unexpectedly while filling the humble position of bailiff in Otago, and doing odd joha in the way of hedging and ditching when he was fortunate enough to get them.He did not discard that occupation, and latterly became a farmer, and wae elect- od « member of the Coloma! Legislature, lis wife was at one time s member of the Salvation Army.The present Earl is dencribed as a well-educated, modest young fellow, with no intention of dis carding healthy colonial life.It vu only in the latter part of last year that he married Miss Townsend, the daughter of a medical man practising in Christchurch, N.Z.His clansmen in the colony presented His Lordship with an address congratulating him on his succession to the title.The Earl is at present landless, for the eighth Karl left the extensive estates of Beatield and Grant to his mother who till holds \u2014 IRISH.A Ballaghadereen correspondent states thut great rejoicing has been caused in Counties Mayo and Roscommon by the snnouncement that the Congested Dis tricte Board has purchased the whdaie of Lord Dillon's estates which comprise about ninety thousand acres, with shout four thousand tenants, paying a rental of nearly twenty thoussnd pounds per an- num.It is announced that the Pope has approved of the selection of the Right Rev.Mgr.Gaffney, P.P., V.G., Clara, for ele vetion to the vacant Bishopric of Meath, It will be remembered that at a meeting of parish priests of the diocese, held in Mullingar on Jan.24 best, Mgr.Gaffney was placed Dignissimus by & large majority of the votes recorded on the oc casion, Monsignor Gaffeey is à native of Mountnugent parish, and was formerly a curate in Mullingar.He has been parish priest of Clara for a considerable period.The date of his consecration has rot yet been fixed, In connection with the recent tragedy known as the Bantry murder case, a very clever arrest was effected by the local constabulary not long ogo.The searching party who were in quest of Cornelius Keohane, who had evuded arrest, and who was wanted in connection with the affair, ere engaged in svouring the country north of Drumoleague, and cun- sisted of Constables Martin, Moloney and Hodgins, of Skibbereen, with Constables Daily and Coliina, of Caheragh station.Ocnstable Collinge, of Caheragh, entered a house, and his suspicions were aroused by some flutter of excitement on the part of the inmates, and he st once made « thorough search, but withoct result in the first instance.He, however, renewed his search, and under « bed in an attic, well covered wp with innocent looking articles, such ss old boards, etc., the constable found the man he wanted, placed him under arrest, and took him before a justice.The three-quarters of a million sterling left by the late Henry Thomas lan, of Carrycastie, Bamagher, who died pre- mmebly intestcte in November, 180%, has juet now heen distributed, the benef.Beigries being the family and friends of \u201c~ bir dt pom Fe i shire, who daimed and established 8 re- tionship by merriage with the intestate\u2019s family.The bulk of it, along with the greater part of the estates, real and personal, of Rir Henry, goes to his eldest son, the present baronet.are some conditions in the settlement, whereby the claims of Coghlan\u2019s heiratlaw « person be found, end also for providing against the possibility of any will by Ceghlan being discovered and established.There were over two hundred claimants for the fortune, and it is under.| Judge Hilecher.eta Chica ' d Goldfon, ered evidence of the guilt of Ringo, and stood that only one secured a few thous and pounds out of the estate.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 t STRAFFORD AND BYNG.TWO TRAGEDIES RECALLED BY THE EARL'S DEATH.In the social and jcurnalistic stir oc casioned by the tragic death of the Earl of Strafford, hustend of the former American widow, Mrs.Colgate, the fact has been lost wight of that the deceased no bleman was titularly in one case and by blood in the uther connected with the! l two most awful tragedies, the two most shameful judicial atrocities, that mar the pages of English history.The earldom was first created in January, 1640, for Viscount Thomas Went- worth, scion of a great Ycrkshire family nearly allied to royalty.He had endeared himself to Cherles 1.by his intolerant advocacy of the kingly authori: tatives, and his overwhelming desire to make Charles the most absolute prinee in Christendom.Yet at the end Charles deserted him in the vain effort to escape a revolution inevitable in any case.\u2018Put not your trust in princes,\u2019 was the famous œy wrung from the first, and for two centuries the last, Farl of Strafford, when on May 10, 1641, King Charles I.put his royal ament to the bill of attainder passed againet his loyal and devoted Prime Minister by the House of Lords.On the 12th Strafford was executed on Tower Hill.It wea not until the middle of this century that the earldom was revived in THE CHINIQUY MURDERT red on Oct.17 and next of kin will be inet, should such | Anne, Ulinocis.negro named Sidney Hingo was arrested and after preliminary examuation, oommitted to stand his trial, which took place last week at Kankskes, before fon\u2019s witnesses had perjured th: in the hope of receiving the rew: offered for the discovery and conviction of the murderer or murderers of the Chini- quvs, ney the jury were instructed to bring in a verdict of not guilty, which they did without leaving the box.remanded ¢o jail to await a trial on the second indictment, which charges b'm with having killed Mrs.Chiniquy.MYBTERY SURROUNDING IT STILL UNSOLVED.The readers of the ' Witness\u2019 will re member the murder of Mr.Emile Chini- which occur- lsat, in Ba.time later x and bis wife, Some wes \"detective ve discov- A Chic he state chiefly relied upon witnesses secured by bim to convict the negro.Grest was the disappointment of rate Aitor- ney Cooper when it was found that their evidence was totally unreliable.Chicago witnesses deposed that they hall met Ringo in a Chicago saloon lest Neo vember and that he had confessed hav ing murdered the Chiniquys of Be.Anne for their money.The defence es tablished that Ringo couid not have been seen in Chicago last November ss he had been arrested on Oct.31, Lodged in Balem jai! and kept there until Jam.The » It was therefore evident that Gold- ves On motion of the State Attor- Ringo was The Chicago witnesses were then ar rested for perjury and lodged in jail, and as they could not furnish the $3,000 bail required, they will probably have to remain there until the next term of the court in October, unless the judge should immediately jesue a call for a special grand jury, and then, if indicted, their trials would occur at the present term.Ringo has issued a statement in which he declares himself entirely innocent of the crime charged against him.ADVERTISEMENTS.the person of the Right Hon.John Byng, | Annual Sales over 8,000,000 Boxes one of the most distinguished command: ers in the Peninsular War, who wag raised to the peerage as Ilaron Strafford.May 12, 1835, and was created Viscount Enfield snd Far! of Strafford on Sept.18, 1847.This gentleman wan the great grandfather of the present earl.He was likewise the grand-nephew of another John Byng, even better known to history, the iil fated admiral who for Lis failure to relieve Minorca and his repulse acquitted of the charge of cowardice and treachery, but was found guilty of cul IN TWENTY MINUTES.Every BEETS FOR BILIOUS AND NERVOUS DISORDERS such as Wind and Pain in the Stomach, Giddiness, Fuloess after mesls, Read.ache, Dizziness, Drowstîtres, Fiushings of Heat, Loss of Appet Biotches on the Bkin, Cold Chilla, Dis- by a French feet on May 20, 1756, was | tarbed Sleep.tried by an Eaglich court-martial, was) Nervous and ite, Costiveneas, hifal Dreams and all bling Sensations.THE FIRST DOSE WILL GIVB RELIEF sufferer pable negligence and condemned to death, | will acknowledge them to be with a recommendation to mercy.The King, bowing to popular clamor, just aa Charles I.had bowed in 1641, refused to interfere, snd Byng was shot on board the \u2018Monarque,\u2019 in Portamouth, March 14, 1787.A phrase as famous as that first used A WONDERFUL MEDICINE BEECHAM'S PILLS, taken as directed, will guickly restore Females to complete healt obetructionsorirregularitiesof the sad eure Bick Headache.Ts They promptly remove by Strafford grew out of this tragedy.| Weak Stomach Voltaire, who had doue hin best to save hia friend Bvng, sarcastically ssid that the English had slain an admiral * pour encourager les autres\u2019 (to encourage the! 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such fine, cigar eyes looking straight into one\u2019s own, and frank bearing, an English woman's honesty, with à French woman's courtesy.She spoke of you with great warmth of regard ; remembered every: thing you had said, and wanted to know alt ut your sculpture studies in Rome.1 said it had encouraged me to intrude on her to hope I might persuade her to faifil her promise of stopping with you next winter, and added how very much you wished it, and described the association she would have with you, sketching excursions, \u201cbovi\u201d and Thafabs (Miss Lioyd\u2019s Arsb horse).* \u201cSomehow, from palking of Italy we to talking of the North, which \u2026 Bonheur thinks hes a d r po etry than the South, and then to Ireland, where she wishes to go next summer, a: of.which Sountry rahe said Such beautiful, dreamy things that even grew poe! \u2018brumes,\u2019 to which she quickly about the epithet \u2018grandiose,\u2019 sud our spl said, fee an angel's eye with a tear in it.At this simile she wis 0 that vee quite friends, and I ean only hope will not see that sea on à grey day, and think me an impostor! .Her one-eyed friend sat by palating al the time.She o 2 \u201cJe vous plains alors! in a tone of conviction showing that, in her case at ail events, friendship was a very pleasant thing.\u2018 \u201cMdlle.Bonheur showed me three or four fine nictures she is painting, and some prints, but of course [ was as atn- pid as usual in studios.and only remarked (ss a buffalo might have done) that Roman \u2018bovi\u2019 were more muestc and like Homeric Junos than those wiry little Scoteh short-horns her soul delighi- eth to honor, But, O! she fins done a dog.such a dog ! the inner soul of him more profoundly, unutterably wise than tongue may tell! A Dog to he set up and worshipped as Anubis.Certainly.Mdlle.Bonheur is a finer artist than Landseer in this, his own, line.I wish the would Jeave the cattle and \u2018go to the dogs.\u2018 *° .ac.THE WORLD MOVES.Anti-Alcoholic Congress.REMARKABLE STATEMENTS AND IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS.\u2014 The \u2018Minerve\u2019 publishes the following aiticle:\u2014\u2018A congress inet alcoholism, the seventh of ite Kind, bas just been hdd in Paris.Good speeches were made, and excellent reporte, the product of interesting statistics, wers submitted.Some of these statistics are even quite pungent, especially one which eatablinhed the fact that.of all the countries in the world, France is the one which pays the largest tribute to alcoholism.It consumes, it appears, over M litres of alcohol at 100 degrees, per year, for ench inhshitant, while the I ne and the Germans only consume 10 litres per head, the Knglish, nine; the Italians, six; the Swedes, four; the Canadians, two.\u201cThese figares sre, at least, Sattering to ue, if they not eo to France.They are à proof religions infuence is owr zation.\u2018At the Paria congress, as elsewhere, the anti-alcoholiste were divided into two camps; on one side were the temper arce people, and on the other the abstainers, whom we call here prohibitionists; the latter rlesclutely prohibiting beer, cider, wine.and all spirituous liquors ; the former admitting the use of certain hygienic liquors, \u2018The great majority of those at the con- gites pronounced themselves in favor of total abstinence from all fermented and distilled liquors.For them.alcohol is always injurious.in whatever shape or doss it may be absorbed; the only thing, then, to be done ia to completely abstain from it.\u2018We feel the benefita of doing 80,\u201d they my, \u201cand onr descendants wil feel them still more.\u201d \u2018In support of that doctrine remark: able facts were quoted.In a memoir resented to the congress, (ieneral Gal- lieni, governor of ndagascar, writes textually: \u201cBead water is better than ony kind of alcoholic liquor.\u201d As regarde himself he has been living in the colonies for twelve years, and drinks water only, and he declares that, from his experience, anemia prevails no more among the waterdrinkers than among the wine-drinkers, and the former are less attacked by other forms of disease than the latter.\u2018A curious feature of the congress is the part taken therein by women., Numerous ladies were seen going to the tribune, English, Uermans, Dutch, Swiss, Roumanians, Finlanders, Danes, Americans.Everywhere women are at the head of the anti-alcoholic movement, for they consider, as declared by one of them, thet it is a patriotie duty for mothers, sisters and wives to show all those who surround them the ravages of the plague and to try and preserve them agninm it, Amerimn women have or gpnized a campaign of prayers, of proces sions through the streets, of hymne at the doors of of personal interviews with the liquor sellers end driok- ers, and have formed a lengne which has already secured 7,000,000 adherents, in favor of total prohitition.Heally, one 4 i notable diminuation in the number of drinking-places, and more severe restrictive bylaws.On the other band, the congress adopted an address having for {ts object to obtain from all the governments complete prohibition of the mle of spirituous liquors throughout, the whole of Africa.\u2019 \u2014_\u2014 [For the \u2018 Witness.\u2019 AN EVENING HYMN.Now, as the silent shades come forth And robe with night the drowsy earth, Father aboye, our hearta we raies To Thee, the Giver of our days.We praise Thee for the hours of light, And all that has rejoiced our sight,\u2014 For care of body, and extol Thy gifts to mind and heart and soul.We thank Thee for what good we may Have done throughout the passing day; For tasks performed, resolves fulfilled, Experiences gained, improvement willed.O Holy Father, we confess These hours have sega us much trans grees : Give va repentance for the win, And cleanse ws from the stain within.O grant us now the serions thought To judge our actions as we ought, A right with backward glance to sean This short life's latest daily span.Grant us to see where we have failed, Or hardly in the strife prevailed; And gather wisdom from the view, The fight more ably to renew.Take us this night into Thy care, And if our lives thy mercy share, Grant ws tomorrow to obey And serve Thee better than to-day .W.N.MACKERACHER.AORIVULTURA LA EORMIULTURAL LWe invite communionsions from farmers givèng Beir mmparience on matters interssila ; te them aa 6 clase; and also enqu.rise, te sohieh, (f tce cannot Gamer them ours oetean, voue af our readers may be able to railed ats factory replies, Questions must always be acormpanied ty name and addres, though net nessaartiy for publé- ration, FARM GLEANINGS.The potato, like wheat, needs a virgin soil, \u2018The soil must be new or rested by s proper rotation of clover or grass crops, if we expect a good yield, and potatoes of good quality, Do not be afraid of a light harrow on corn.| use one that covers five rows and two horses do not know they are drawing a thing.The barrow must be used before the weeds leaf out, We plant artichokes very similar to Irish potatoes, keeping up frequent.shallow cultivation until they sre two to three feet high.To kill the plants out plough under in August or cut them down to prevent flowering.A ture will provide more feed dur ag be summer if it is not fed off too short early in the spring.Cows should not be compelled to work hard tramping over a short pasture all day to get enough to eat.Clover is the moat persistent of all forage crops to \u2018claim the earth\u201d Where it grows in its full strength and vigor, weeds have no show ; hence, if we want clean corn fields, the oftener we can have those fields in full possession of clover the less weeds we will have to fight in cultivating the corn.The application of lime in some Ala teats to soils devoted to corn, tomatoes, lettuce and tobacco grestly increased the yield and the quality of the crops.With the tomatoes it was noticed that heavily limed plats were remarkably free from blight and other fungous diseases.The soil was limed at the rate of from 15 to 45 barrels per acre.Bird day is being generally observed in all the city schools to-day.This isa new departure for the schools of the city, but it is given prominence for the purpose of impressing on the children the evil results of the wanton killing of birds and robbing nests.There is no fixed programme, each teacher devoting two hours of the afternoon to the obeervance of the day.~\u2014Denver \u2018Times.* The Farmers\u2019 National Con; the most powerful agricuiturel body the United States, resolutions last December strongly endorsing state aid as the solution of the roads problem, and commending the efforte of the league of American Wheelmen to bring about its general introduction.The National Road Parliament, consieting almost entirely of farmers, passed similar resvlutions at ite last annual meeting.It is safe to say that potatoes should never follow potatoes.A leading hin- dranos to potato culture is the enemies which the tuber bas, both insect and fungous.Blight, rot.scab, beetles, bugs, ete, have a large share of the responsi- | count for the low average yield of the country.Nearly all these pests gradually take possession of the soil and live over in it when potatoes are gro year j after year on the same ground.No farmer in this country who kespe cattle of any kind can afford to be without à corn crop.It will pay every farmer on 3 hundred acres of land to grow each year from five to ten acres of corn, the ares depending upon the number of cattle kept.A ten-acre corn crop, if rightly handled, will give more good feed for stock than can be procured in any other way from the same amount of land.It has-tken some of our farmers several yours to find this out.\u2014 LIVE STOCK NOTES, If American horses, suitable for omnibus work, will readily command $150 in Liverpool and London, it will pay on American farms to raise the kind of horses that is desired.In May tbe nights are liable to be cool and sometimes frosty enough to make cows uncomfortable out of doors, therefore, they will do better if they are kept in the stable during nearly all the month.Do not turn the young calves that are being fed milk out on the fresh They will do much better to be kept m a yard with & stable that they can go into or when it is cod or stormy, and they should also have good bay, oats and bran.I believe colts usually come too early.It would be better to have the colts come after the hardest of the work is over or before it begins.I have a mare colt that came the first day of Septem: ber.When she was six months old she weighed 008 pounds, but she had not been fed at » wheat straw stack.readers I will give the following remedy for killing lice on horses and cattle :\u2014 Bet some buttermilk away for a week until it gets sour, and the older it in the better, then wash the animal with it.Rub back and forth until you are sure the animal is wet through to the skin.This never fails to kill the lice and usually only one application will be found neceæary\u2014F.B.Torrin.Breeding for quelity in the horse is like all other business on the farm.If we are careless in selecting our seed corn one crop will be poor.If we select a scrub male hog we will suffer a lows by setting = poor lot of pigs.flo it is with breeding and rearing of horses; a scrub stallion will get a rerub colt and make & money lose for the man who ome the oo while a sed stallion will get à good t, « money pin to the owner snd & thing of beauty the family.: From the time the Sreeder csatem- For the benefit of * Prairie Fermer\u2018 The7 June 6, 1899, plates breeding & colt ke nist begin to carefully study al}-the conditions.In the first place he must breed to a first cluss, well-bred, stylish, -gaited atal- lion and when the uce arrives he must count on giving it the best possible oppurtunity to develop as quickly as sible and be ready for market, he growing and developing pracess is just as important as the breeding and unless both are judiciously looked after and wisely performed the result will not prove satiafuctory, There i vast difference between sheep ticks and sheep lice.The ti& is from one-eighth to onequarter inch in length, of « dark red color, and is liable to give the sheep a great deal of trouble, The sheep lowe is about the sise of an ordinary louse; it ie a very troublesome parasite, and not nearly as common as the tick, but much harder to destroy.Dipping the sheep in some reliable di about ten days after they are sheared, and again just before going into winter quarters, is the best remedy for these peste, as well as ail skin diseases.Mat five or aix weeka old the young pig are eating and growing well increase their feed, giving them all that they will take and decrease the feed of the sow gradually for nearly two weeks.At the end of this time the two strongest youngsters of the litter are taken away.Again, after two days another pair, and so on till all are weaned.\u2018This tends to even up the different pigs of the Sitter if there is any variation in size and uniformity in a and adds fo their selling value.By following thia course the sow is given the very .best chance and any danger of spoiling her milking qualities is prevented, which is very important if she is to continue to be à brood sow.Even if you own a dosen calves that you sre raising for milkers, have them all up to the homestead two or three times a week 50 that they may become familiar with the forms, movements and voices of human beings.After à few weeks of captious movement among them, y gra dually enticing them to lick meal out of your hand yo can soon get each individual calf to permit you to walk right up to it and touch it.It takes time and patience snd good judgment to do this but it can always be done.A young heifer of splendid producing qualities, but without early training, put into the hands of an impatient person during the first milking season can be, and oftes ia, made ao vicious and restless that she must be sold for beef, as it would not pay to spend sufficient time on ber to reform her.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 WASHING SHEEP.Washing and shearing time is approaching, and shepherds are looking forward to their customary routine for the season.In most cases this consists of & drive of the combined flocks for half » rile or ¥° mile.along a dusty road, by two or thres neighbors, with all hands on deck, each catrying an extra pair of trousers aud peir of old boots.The benefits of shoep-washing are generally understood to be that it prevents the useless transportation of large quantities of dirt with the wool, and that it raires the value of the wool in the mare ket.The advantages of not washing, on the other band, are considerable, snd re late principally to the ment side of sheep busbandry\u2014the more important side in Canads, as our sheep are practically all of the mutton breeds.Sheep-washing cannot safely be dome in our running creeks until neur the end of June.This means a great discomfort to the sheep.It has been demonstrated by careful ez- periment that aheep feed better after the removal of the fleece in early spring than they do with it on.This applies particularly to the case of yearling wi or ewes to be sold early in the spring, but applies to some extent to all sheep indiscriminately.At whatever time shear ing takes place, it of course means a more or less violent change, as it means the exchange of the whole fleece for practically no wool at all.Our excessive climate, however, seems to accord well with this, The season of spring ie s change from cold to sudden warmth, and it would seem more natural to take the floece off the sheep as soon as the temperature admits of vegetable growth rather than leave the animal to carry it during six weeks more of increasingly hot weather, \u2014_\u2014 BENZINE FOR LAMB PARASITES.Among the remedies for paramtic worms and stomach worms of all kinds.benzine has been recommended.Some flaxseed is taken and boiled in water, and then allowed to cool down into a thin jelly, when a teaspoonful of benrine is added, and being well shaken it is given to the lamb.An American breeder thus records his experience in the \u2018Breeders\u2019 Gazette\u2019 : \u2018The effects seem hardly noticeable ; there is a trifle of drowsiness for à few minutes ; that is all that I could see.are as well as before being dosed.After three doses given in three days the lambs seemed to me to present a wonder ful improvement.They rounded out, ate greedily, their skins surely looked better, and I felt quite sure that they were vastly better.Ome in particular that world gnaw bark snd earth, a good indication of stomach worms, does not now have that habit.Not one lamb wae injured in the least by the treatment.To some large lambs I gave à double dose, a dessert-epoonful, with no apparent ill effect.1 am inclined to think that the tesspoonful dose is too smell for a lamb that will weigh seventy-five pounds, To « sucking lamb of forty-five days\u2019 age 1 gave a full spoonful, and no ill effects appeared.\u2019 This is a simple remedy, and if it wi) do what the sheep-breedar above mentioned says, every farmer who keeps sheep should try it.The remedy ia à safe one, and does not cost much.Five cents\u2019 worth of benzine will dose\\a bun.dred lambs.If flaxseed is Dot hand linseed meal will anower. Joxs 6, 1899, QUESTIONS & ANSWERS LIVie énotte questions mn all posible sulonts of ganera éntsrent, te which wo shall do our best to obtain serveur unawert, and hall insert such quer les and replies as + con male room fer.This must wol be wand, Aoweser, 64 en advertiolng coda cv as an ençuiry burcau for matiere nef af publis interest.Bry query mud be accomponieé with (he ass and postal address of the ander, and no noties will be taben of anenymons sem mrundentéons.} GENERAL.MONEY WILLED TO MISSIONS.B.G., Ormstown.\u20141.Does the Quebec ment charge its established parcen- Des jegacies upon money willed fo foreign missions?32.What lu the amount of the tax?Ans.\u20141 aod 3.Yes, all lega- cles are subject to tax of ten percent, within the Province of Quebec.Thess taxes are known as succession duties.Money willed either to domeatio or foreign missions, Le subject to tbe provisions of this tas.GAELIC BIBLE AND OTHER WORKS.Galt, Killarney, Man \u2014State when and at what price the following works in Gaelic may be ol : 1, A Gaolig disttopary: 3, a grammar; a bible, w Testament, Aps\u20141.Nel \u2018Pronounciog Megiieh-Gaelio and Gaslic-English Diotion- * which also contains à comprehonsive Basia grammar, price, 42.75, poutpaid to ti ram ar cents; any address.may be had rate alse the \u2018Engliab-Gnello Maglish,\u2019 for §1.85 each.war's \u2018Dictionary of the Gaelle,\u201d 1007 pages: cloth, with wide margin on page for notes, (LE Macpherson® \u2018Practical Lessons in tlaelie,\u2019 with vocabularies, thirty-five cents.Munre's \u2018New Gaelic Primer,\u2019 vocabularies and short grammar, thirty-five cents; siso eatalna conversations in Gaelic acd Rog- ish.Whyte's \u2018How to read Gaslis,\u2019 In- strectiong snd roading lessons, Thirty-five cents.A.Stywart's \u2018Elements of Gae- lo Grammar,\u2019 very complets, $1.30.\u2018Gaello Texts for Bchools,\u2019 grammar, vocabulary, and parsing, by H.C.Glilies, twenty cents for part 1.3.\u2018Bible in Gaelle,\u2019 3émo.,Arm- erican, cloth, pearl, fifty cents; the same, in, sixty cents; the same, morooeo, gilt edges, ninety-five cents; nonpareil .Bidle, ah in, seventy cents.Bourgeois, Bvo.Bible, cioth, §1.30; the same morocco and gilt edges, $1.80.Baveral New Testaments from twenty-five cents to ninety vents, according to site.Gaelic lon tooke, cloth, red edges, fifty cents.Among the selected religious works in Gsello are le had Baxter's \u2018Call to the Unconvert- thirty-five cents; \u2018Saints Everlasting est,\u201d Bfty cents; Bunyan's \u2018Pligrim's Progress,\u2019 cents: several other of Rus- n'es works, thirty-five ~ents each; \u2018Con.of Falth.' in Gaelle, seventy cents; \u201cPraims end Parapbrases,\u2019 Gaelic and English, thirty-five cents.In Gaelic only, an Of above work, 1y for thirty- type, thirty-five cents.Many poems songs in Oaslic from thirty-five cents to $8.Mmntimn the work as being on James THim's caf e.Order from W.Drrvaals & Ce, James street.Mont- \u2014 NUMISMATIC.A NOVA BOOTIA PENNY, give a short account and Nova Scotian state of It ls In .Ans \u2014Nova BScotts, as sony aan 1821, began to issue copper coins, whirl ene was continued at intervals, as the needs of tbe ince required.Theme enins bore on the obverse the bead of the § k i ereign.and on the reverse a thistia It was the pu to continue tbe same design on the coinage of 1854, but at that time, thers was a strong agitation ear- ried on througbout the province for the adoption of a provincial emblem.The proposed emblem was the trailing srbutus, or may-Sowsr.The leading spirit in this pro- da.was John S.Thom , father of late premter, Sir John Thompson.He 00 influenced the provin:ial secretary, that instructions wers sent to the agents oJ the Be to reselve instructions from the suggest.In the meantime, Mr.son, Aaving made artistic drawin; may-| .sent It to Mr.Hows, who bao: ed It to the eae with the necassary in- struetions.is drawiex by a patriotie Neva Scotian, thus became the design of may-flower penny.As £1.00) worth, 70), was ordered, it is not at all scarce, aa occasional mens are occasional- still found in circulation, it commands ttle, it any, um.A CANADIAN CENT.R.G.\u2014What ts the value of a Canadian cent of 168° It is the same design es that of 1858, showing the Queeu's head, isureated instead of crowned, as in more yoogn: issues.] believe only a few were and that it ls very scarce.Ans.\u2014 It the report of the royal mint is to be re- Hed which states that 10,000,000 cents vers for Canada in 1868, it should be very common.But tbis statement is an error, arising out cf the fact tha! the order for the colnage was received towards the close of 1388, and that after a quantity had bees struck, the opening of the new vear it necessary to change tbe date.This fs shcwn on some specimons, in which t traces of the \u20188° appear undernecth the 4.\" Stil] the oeat of 1856 is not so scares as y believe it to be.One collector had, laying aside sil he came across during two years, secured over a buudred.It is, thercfore, worth little, It avy premium.HOW PUBLISH A STORY.$ I.McC., Mattaws \u2014What journals or paghisbing orms would be likely to accept publ a Sunday school story?Ans.The same rules would apply to a Sunday school story as to any other manuscript.It suitable for their paper Ian subject matter, and not too long.some family paper wight publish ft, provilod that they had pot too large a mass of unpublished and accepted manusiript on hand.Unless the author is well known, ft in not Hkely that any of publishers would issue the story ir book form st their own axpense.Try the \u2018Bvangelical Churchmun\u2019 or the \u2018Missionary News.\u2019 Address Bryant Press.ichmond street, West Toronto, Ont.The \u2018étroit \u2018Free Press,\u2019 Detroit, Michigan, or the \u2018Young Churchman\u2019 Publishing Co., of Wilwaukee, Wisconsin.it you.wish to Bave the manuscript returped be sure to oe a at the rate of one sont for Iv oi lor Canada and the United vathe The manuscript should, of Saree; be very carefully written, only one vide the paper being used.Mesers.W.Drysdale & Co, 222 St.Jemes strost Mont- tral.sometimes accept manugertots 1 they re of exeeptional ae The gempe for ra pcstage shou! verif fo a letter.Editors, however, receire of manuscripts that some of them are lkée Iz to be lost eves when the seader has taken every precaution.such THE APPOINTMENT OF LICENSE INSPECTORS.Subscriber, Cobdon.\u2014~1.How are license of commissioners appointed?2.the provincial government be ing tem) ace men to this na.\u2014i 3.The local mem- irilement should be madeé te temperance men.If the tem- induaed ei peranes sentiment is strong in say lesslity the member should be infisenced 2 gr fnsatauéb as fi \u2018Gorives rév rom the sale of iloenses, Is often unfavorable to the appolntment of an 3 , or comment who is knawn to hold prohibition prinelples.Dut the Joeal member especially if 6 supporter à! the party botd- ing ofies, could make grea use of his in- fluenod If willing to do so.I the case of «& member slected bedause of bis support of temperance legislation, thers should be little di@Æculty in gaiolog his help ln this matter.ADDRESS WANTED.A Bubscriber.\u2014Pleass give the dress of the New York Directory, the latest ons, wd And but one person of the above name 0 is not a schoolmistress.There are three Mry.Browns whose Cbristisn sames at 633 E.190th street, at 106 aod at $54 W.W.38th street.OTHER ADDRESSES.J.P.and C.L.R.\u20141.Olve the address of Mr.Russell Sage.1 The address of Mr.Andrew Carn 3.What is the estimat Repulation of city of Milwaukes, W \u20141.President Rusesil Bage's address, 31 Nassau street, New York, N.Y.Bouse, 608 Fifth mvenue, New York.3.Pittsburg, .Pa., 1s probably sufelent od- dress for Mr.Andrew Carnegie.We have not found his house address.3.280,000, ne- cording to À.G.Wright's Directory of Mil- waukes, Wis.1 CYRANO DE BERGERAC, Enquirer, Milwavkes, Wis.\u2014How should the abore name be prenounceé?Ans.\u2014 Very much the same 84 {t is spelled, namely, \u2018Seerano de Burjerak.\u201d \u2014\u2014\u2014 LEGAL.(QUEBEC.) QUALIFICATIONS FOR J.P'S.tons 7 ior the position Justice ons je pos ce of tl o bate In the Province of Quebec?3, Is chere any Fier qualification?3.By whom are J.P'a appointed?Ans.\u20141 apd 1 À justice of e must be clear of debt, must be a resident of \u2018the district in which he Is appointed, must be a Brit- Ish subject, must own property to the extent of one thousand dollars in real estate, and must bave sufficient education to be able to understand, to write, and to æign any documents to be used in the discharge of his duties.He should also hawe some knowledge of the laws of the Dom.lnion and of the province.But Lhe first four qualifications are absolutely essential.3.J.P.\u2019s are appointed by urder of the Quebec government acting on the advice of persons of reputation and Influence.Any man of influence with the government could probably secure an appointment fdr any parson poes-esing the requisite qualifica- ons.WATER-TAKE\u2014DAMAGE TO LAND.Quebec.\u2014My nelghbor À dug a bole close to line on his aide and put in box for spring water last summer.My spring, in use forty years, 15 about 200 fest from line oo B's side: The down T ter from A's box flows line a little and then crosses on to making bog of piece of land that has cultivation, end finally comes (nto A's land One furrow would take the water off on A'S side down the line, on B's side it would be Wwery dificult owing to some trees and à kpoll.The water did not come on B's cul- tvated land before the bole for a spriug was dug out.1.How can B proceed to have the water rus down the Who would have to dig ditch?érain enough above, before it crosses the line to affeot B's spring?Ans.t A refuses to rectify the matter take an tion against him.The proprietor of t! lower land is obliged by law to receive th natural flow of water from Lee upper but this servitude cannot be ren mors onerous by the propristor of the upper.2.A would have to dig the ditch.2.Ir the water runs through B's land detors supply- he is entitled to use ig A's spring make of it, but subject to the obligation eof allowing it to take its usual bourse when It leaves bis land.\u2014_\u2014 i MORTGAGE\u2014RENEW AL.Subscriber, Que \u2014A lonned B 800 on a mortgage, and bad it registered at the same time.A did not charge any interest nor intends to do 60.However, the time bav- oy expired for paying the Jean, and B not belog able to per it, would like to extend the time (without Interest).it Decea- sary for A to have the mo renewed and registered again or will old s- tered one do?2.If the old will do, how long will it be beld legal?Aus \u2014The mortgage remains valid for thirty years without renewal or stration: so that unless the property was %0id a renewal would be w necessary within that PROMISSORY NOTE\u2014COMPENSA- TION, ETC.Constant Feader.\u2014A buys some goods fro , and gives notes in settlement, snd afterwards ref to pay.C wishes to buy something from A, and is friendly with I, who tells bim of the notes given by À, in payment for bought.If C buys the article from A, can he pay for it with the potes given by A to B, soma time before.The notes are not outlawed.Ana.\u2014It the notes are transferred by B to C the latter will be entitled to apply them to the payment of the article bought from A.Being transferred after maturity C will, however, take them subject any defence which A might be able to up against B, such as Inck of considera pensstion.(ONTARIO) AGREEMENT BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE.Manitobs Subrcriber.\u2014A makes AS agres- ment with his wife to divide certain prop- .Papers are drawn cut by A, stating same.Would such papers with A's #ig- natcre, \u2018also witness,\u2019 protect the wife and hold good in law?If not, please state what are necessary to make such agree he laura Ans Ne cana tell without seeing the papers and kuowing mo: ti cumstances, and especially whether it is protection for the wife as againet Ler hus.end.as against bis creditors that is In- ten VALIDITY OF WILLS.M., Ont.\u2014le it legal for a beneficiary to draw ur a will, or In other words, in a for a father by his sem who TITLE TO CHATTRL FROPERTY.He bo ta BB Bever \u2018pers \u2018shribias e J a Fasssegors Tor BE on It, put has It In bis Trades ol bolier aad e Con @ legal bill of sale to D.1.portable saw mill: he selle It to ©, with the understanding that it is to be bis when he pays for it.B has it in kis pos~ \"ies spears It bey also sf trades baer and sogine.poid an ele y six years, and calls it his own.\u2018s mill, B bas never hing cn sald will.Cam B give ful bill of sale to D?Ane\u20141 aoû à ming that D le not aware of A's MEDICAL.(Leters for tâle department ohou'd be addressed \u201cNedieal Litter ' Witness,\u2019 Moniveal.\u201d Bodid o oubacr five ask ang question which és nat suitable for publisétion, à reply will be ornt by mail 4/8 sampod nédreseed enctloge and $1, physieian\u2019s fos, de emolesed with such question | CUTTING TEETH.Bubseriber.\u2014I have a little months old, who bas conside: in cutting ber teeth.In the afternoon snd evening she Is very \u2018eriah and fretful; in the morning, she ju better.In very drowsy, but does not sleep soundly, being very restless, and waking often.Can thers be anything dono to relieve her?Please prescribe.Ans.\u2014It will be safe to take advice of your family douter, while cutting eye and stomach testh, whinh wer- ally caune iliness, and come about this nge.RHEUMATTSM.Bubecriber.\u2014-1 am suffering great pais, trom muscular rheumatism io my right arm fram the elbow joint up to Lhe nu ider 1 am sixty-five yours, but sa active workor for that age.My som, also, Is say troubled with the same thing : sometimes In his wrists, cometimes in bis ankles and in his back.We will be trul, grateful to you for any advice yeu will tive us.Ans.\u2014Bee the article to-day on rheumatism.rl, Afteen ble difficulty DYSURIA.J.Y.8.sends an account of « friend eut- tering intepssly sfier passing water, Ans.\u2014Any one suffering #0 much should call In « doctor.The agony after urine is passed suggosts the possibliity of star 1) the locaticn of the palu, which Is character istic of stone.The case should be investi gated.Cortalnty If a sto: is may be obtained by sound metal rod.If the pain arises \u2018rom some other cause it la just as necessary in relieve it us quickly as possible, which can only be attempted when assured of the source frcm which it sprirgs.An {nstrument to crush the stomo into gravel Is sometimes used, and \u2018he gravel can then pass throu, the natural ehan- aei.- In the case of littl euch « st should get immediate attention, as they are apt to injure themselves In thefr ignorance and anguish.Liquid extract of bamamelis, equal parts, with water, may be used as a lotion, If 7 external byper- aemin occurs, apply wit! a compress of Hpen.DYSMENORRHOFA.Reader.\u20141.What is the cause of the fleshy discharge?2.Is It dangerous.and what might it lead to?3.Would it likely wear away itself, without consulting a physician?4.Would it be possible for the tanay-tes to cause any evil effects?5.you prescribe a remedy\u2019 §.Pleass give advice.Ans.-L Probably clots, possibly shreds of msmbrane lining the cavity.2.Prcbably a chronic upheal condition tending to grow worse.13 and 4.Tansy-tea will not cure, but may relieve a little; fiot probably harmful.5.Bas: to attention and treatment If needed, directiy.6 Home such, aymptoms as theme have often boen cured.PARALYSIS, Enquirer, \u2014 Affictbé « year ago by & stroke; sixty-three years of age.| Lo power to move my hand, fingers or of the right side.e my Is.1 sit up in a chalr, but very tired.What should [ do?Is rubbiug good?Aus.Rubbing is very good to improve circuls- tion, and so make a paralysed patient more comfortable.A little soap linisaent may be on hand.It Is best to get @ little exercise in any way possibly, and he gentle rubbing and kneading belpe uite à Ht- tie; so does batbing the iy.ily nade wheeled chairs are mice, If they can Le afforded.If not, an invalid should ba pulled ln a rocking chair, or arm chalr, into different rocme, and outside, so as to get change.Variety Is almost es \u2018seful ae thu fresher air obtained in this way.Per laps, with a cane, you could walk out, and have a chair ready outside with seversi cushions, and a foot rest.Wadding.cr clean straw, covered with some kind of wash goods, makes into curbions very well.By having a number of them you can change the shape of your chair to prevent tiredness.If they have £tel thoy can be tied to a chair to prevent slipping.The system should be kept open by cerealn, barley, oatmeal, and the various prepai tlona now sold In \u201chages, and mile Nicely cockgd vegetables, with white sauce, are useful., ANTI-FAT CURE.N.H.G.\u2014In your question and answer column, you are asked to give \u2018regime, or cure for obesity?When forty-five years of age I weighed 208 pours; my height Is five fect seven fnches, an ting heavier yearly.My father weighed 300 pounds.1 tried averyibing ! heard of to help me, without success, till I was advised *o try the \"Wm.Banting trestment for obesity.\u2019 1 the little book of his, for which I 4 twenty-five cents.It Is purely a lietary cure, and a comolets success In my case.I lost four pounds the first forty- eight hours, and reduced my weight thirty nds in two months, and have been a ter man ever since, kesplug myself at frem 175 to 180 pounds.Ans.\u2014Dantiog's Enti-fat method of diet reduced the whole amount.Liquide were restricted, and no fat or starch ailowed.In this it was lke a diabetic diet.Yeo, physiologiat.advises very littl?starch, but allows cily food.He gives enough water at meals to dissolve the food, but advises the use of hot aromatic drinks between msals, especially in cares inclined to gout.The fluid needed by the body, and for purposes of flushing, Is considerable.When secretions become too thick they deposit erystalilne saits, #bich are injurious.HEART TROUBLE.A Subecriber.\u2014I have a friend who has been alling the ter part of the past Last fall he thought he ha?the the Any exertion causes him brea heavily; has a pain in loft side, and a cough.During one cough- Ing apeil, be raised some blood; that was about two months ago.all right, but that his stomach was out © crder,and that there was some water aron his heart, and bis heart was (n had shapo.The doctor gave him three different kinds of medicine, ons for his riomach, one for his heart; the other for the pain In Kis side.Since then he has given him something to rub on bis side, but his side la swel ing above his heart.The \u2018doctor only sliows Bim certain thingy to sat, and he Is losing flesh every day, which acems To dis courage him.Do you think that the doctor te treating bim properly?Do you consider his condition very serous, ar do you think that with care be will recov- or?! 1 see something In the \u2018Witnëés of May D, about food called protels, or pro- tose.Would you recommend it in man\u2019s cése, (bat I have just descrided, and could you tel me wbo to procure Jt trom, sad how It is to be sold.ft worth?This friend of mine ts.a married man adont thirty years old; Va busi- nes: is store keeping.Water round the heart ts a trouble that must be relieved, or it will Impede the heart its power.Remedies to raue- ab- ÉD, Pactnat ad no eonerurnce eu 180 but that la of no consequence sa the oss of weight will mat injure & 1.an whose heart ta not equal to the neoda of the ays- tern.Loss of weight may be a , but If not, dose not signify Ts 200.dééiiete) as lt may in some aiimeu\u2018».In serious cases of heart difficulty.or in pericarditis, a doctor should bave complete cb of the case, wha fan listen lo the héart and know Its condition.\u2018The stomach in heart diseases often gets out of order from congestion and light food io small Quantities should be taken, ec sa to prevent distrws.Get your friend to ask his doctor about piteis As to two or three remedies being pernicious, that depends upo.what they are.Many useful remedies cannot be mired with others, and m-ny lon! equire something the glandular ce, iron, which is a food of the blood, om Îte autringevcy, works better with .It seams best not to meddle Iraases of severe (lines with regularly «p- proved of treatment.CONCERNING A PRESCRIPTION-A BERIOUS MISTAKE.A.B.C.\u2014~Would it bs a sin to use a pre- |.scription (which § send) to prevent conception?Ans\u2014You de not give the amount of water or the number of times (bis rem- ody Is su to be used.It ls Ia ilselt barmises used in a quart of water, and, only occasionaliy, for cleanliness, but who cag estimate the sin of Intention to take Ife?Heartisss mothers may destroy God's kindest plas for their later years In this way.The gentle patient love necessary a boar, carry, train and watch a number of chlidren will appear as an inheritance in tbe younger childres of a good mothsr au probably as any other of her characteristics.Many a parent has been lovingly cared for at last by the very child who would bave been destroyed by a selfish snd timid icy.Le it not reasovable to suD- poss that much cam be inherited from® an experienced and disciplined parentage which renid not appesr in the older children bora when the parents were less themselves?[t may be noticed also that the strongest character and the finest mind tn a family circle cannot ba arranged for but by this plan might be lest.A delicate mother may rather seek extra nourishment, such as vilik, à fresh egg, a [amb chop for tea, Of some such thing, with restful ways and getting outdoors as much as possible, thus to give her possible children avery aid to lite than by allowl callous and roslly murderous .thougkts overn the sacred subject of maternity, thus to infliet a wrong upon tbe moral nature.Women thus forget their Orestor must expect spiritual retributien In the want of conscience resulting from this continued and wilful .A person who goes round teach- Ing some \u2018barmiess\u2019 method ¢f this nature la a to society although fancyisg her otherwise.RHEUMATISM.A Sufferer.\u2014Thirty-five years old, mother of six children; have ays worked hard.I got very wet while berry-picking ave years and did not change my things for & whils, being busy.In the night I awake in the mosey severe pain { ever felt, which affected my back, right bip, knee, ankie and toe joluts.Two days afterwards a finiment relleved me so that 1 could sleep.It has been coming on nt times ever since, until about \u2018eighteen months ago it came to stay.Sore stings and soreness, better after working a while.Pruminences have appeared on the side, under the arm and on the bip, also a flattening at the back.The right elbow and Songer joints are also sore.feel th: in when using the joints.1 sometimes ha: peculiar burcing feeling and sometimes a cold sensation in my lower limbs.I cannot button my boot or bear pressure on my great toe font.| always have a good appetite, but am not 8 strong as I! was.Ans.\u2014This seems to be rheumatism and the nerve of the leg Wo involved in It.It is not essy to cere chronle rheumatism and sciatica, but care should be taken lest it get worse.Rheumatic persons should live on dry well drained soll.They sbould be comfortably dressed in woollen or mixed wool and cotton underwear.Flannelette or ali-wool flannel over cotton may de worn at night.Clothing must be changed if it gets damp, po standing on cellar foors or sitting In baxement of ground floor rooms is wise.The rooms should have a flat below them warmed and dried by a fire and alred regularly.Every one cannot go to a warm equable climate to live, but most people will find it cheaper to arrange for dry evenly heated rooms, admitting sir and sunsbing, and to get the soil well (ned, or move to where it is #0, than to meet the expenses of invalidigm.It le jmpertant not to rum down your health by swallowing much medicine.By bathing and gentle continued rubbing and kneading the paiatet parte of the body, circulation will be kept In good order aud tbe soreness relieved.ction, massage or simple rubbing is more useful than electricity and fortunately within the reach of ail.It, after taling cold acute pain comes ou, flannels wrung out of hot sods water may be applied, followed by a cold douche on the place, of by a lniment and layer of rotton bound on to prevent taking cold.The diet shuld be moderate, snd such as can be perfectly digested.Milk, ceresl food, green vegetables, oniens nnd carrots, fish, chicken, lamb, with tatoos, and milk pudding.are suitable.Eat five hours apart, and take care not to be quiet after à meal.LINIMENT., Todide of potassium, six drachms; curd soap, one ounce: glycerine, four draclims; oll of lemon, ball a drachm ; water five ounces.is is called iodide of potassium and sosp liniment.It may be used freely every day or two, on the paintul places.INTERNAL REMEDY FOR CHRONIC .RHEUMATISNM.Gualac, one drechm:; potassium todids, two drachme:; tincture of colchicum, three drachme; clonamon water, gum water and syrup, {wo ounces of each.Dissolved and mixed.À dessertapconful three tfmes .3 FOR A FRESH ATTACK.Salicylate of sodlume,iS grains three times a day for two days.est in bed, bot ap- lcations and « 1 liniment for pain.tniment of belladonna snd liniment of chloroform four drachms of esch mixed with one ounce of um linfment.Tale whould be marked ,' and also \u2018externat use.\u2019 AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL.\u2014 #Oondusted by WF.F.Clorte, \u201c Lindenkeak,\" Guslgh.) GINSENG.Greensdielés, the true ginseng\u201d If eo, y give the address of les who purchase the roots?! About what price per pound will it brirg?Lthiak you an- ewered these questions some Lime ago, but if ne, ! cannot find them.§ have either ured the paper, or given it away.Tleass enswer and oblige.Ans.\u2014Severnl articlce have appeared In the agricultural department the \u2018Witness\u2019 on the subject of gin- sng, one a very full one iliusteated by nu cut of the plant, dated Feb.14, 184.Another, more brief, was published on Nov.§, 188.I bave River sem a live specimen to know ft, and cannot (dentify the owe vent by this correczontont.lr.ftacton, of Summit Mation, N.Y, 1s ti best authority on gloseng culture on the North-Amertean continent, and takes & great interest (n snawering questions con- corntog Being à lurge grower of the plant himself, he wonid zt once decile whetber à spocimen eent to bios fe true gia.seng or pet.I névise Mre.À.B.tn sont one to Mm.1 do not know where Mr.nee sale for his crop +2 rema i ber - not biilave 1n but last statement of his I remem! soft, soppy fout at of his sold seventses al), The fowls should away frem the poun: roots, Yor ich he got four trocgb Uneatisfied and Should thes serk éollers per pound.thelr food, getting It in by n, pn \u2014 ing 18 heai:by exo: in ol to T 18 THE R WITH OUR Mariam rlitcul vange, thir massing Todd RHUBARB?should consist of a warm mash.made from W.ILE,, Solway Ferm, Btonewsll, Man.\u2014 |&9 Ars corn meal, wheat brad, 1 'suoulé \u201cÎike lo mow.through the |ETund oats It is eustomery co mis ve \u2018Witness\u2019 columns, what \u20ac the matter yd n the morn Pere re et barb.Tha kind le laras.créss Jung what vos thion {a about Ud No matter where we buy It La th and let them try to nd ves to thin stalks after tae [19 picid os.tit: red.7 rat y ur land is rather ston femaloing quantity \u201c 1 would urge ev is generally the poultry riser on the farm, to resolve that she will rales none hut pure bred poultry; end baving so decided select the bread she thinke best suited to ber needs, and by purchasing a few birds % .few settings of , of Sure a start, stiek to it in ole what the neighbors wil] say, for there Js always some ons t decry à mow venture anyway.Iaving esse started 1 am sure wil say, as | do, It pars te keep pure bred poullry on \u2018be fais.ft there were no profits, the Plessuro eng éerivea from sesing & flock of pul Linde.so near slike that one can pot tél \u2018whieh from tother,\u2019 is so .made rench two fest deep sud area k with rotten stably manure.Thie (6 in a billy pl wa give water every day In summer.We have black currants on the same pleco of land, which do well, | should like to know if any other appies besides crab, will in Manitoba: If so, what kind would be suitable; house aad den is about Sve rcres inside by little lufts of poplar.I shall be thankful if you will angwer through your valuable paper and oblige.Aus.\u2014I only know of two cuves for rhubarb running to thin stalks: Ta tha other poverty of soil.Clumps x an: ja other, poverty of soll.ul rhubarb shold be divided often enough to TE ae morale apindiing in thelr OMDIZE the purebred, oce would with ares rejuctance, go back to the flock of mongrele habit of growth.This is very hungry .1} rooster.vegetable, snd many people starve \\t to beaded by à common dung ki death.Only the otber day | saw a rhu- AS you barb bed which the owner ronsidered he bad manured, but each plant had only dose sufficient for a large Sover Por as mere flea bite for a Sresty 1 A stony soll Is not good ope for rh the manure beigg apt to leach away.would advise a dressing of clay soll, if it is practicable, and mere liberal manuring.nls plant 1a like the borse lesch, ever cry- ng \u2018Give, , w , and y ., #0 oan easily understand t fowls treated a like mancer cannot be any more able.For Muetration, we that 8 farmer has ten hogs fu 8 pep te wishes to turn into pork.Does be Rew them where they ere almost frosen and go to them orce à duy and throw thems 8 bushel of peas, perhaps into the filth, at the same time Sivog them a drick of water?Me T.McR., Port Sigin.\u2014WIill you, or some knows beter than to 5, beosnde these of y&ir many = , please give inferma- are abd pay to feed properly.but tion to one who is in ignorance as ta the hens that are wy a aulsnce an best and cheapest way of supplying water Dover pay, when be goes to for stock fn stable, both for winter and their fithy cold salle De will threw own summer ups.There are some who maka |A lot of wheat in the Bit once s day shd memented cisterns with a kind of patent [let them eat soow for water.No wi Yalve, 50 as to let the water flow à certain these hens don\u2019t pay.hetent, without any force, but the pressure fie LIVE STOCK.WATER! WATER! if je water.Others.use 8 hydrau- tic ram recommend it, while others use a windmill to pump the water out of a well or cistern.I understand there ls an For vévertising in this éepartment reduesd prices vill be sent on ap] mathod by means of an air-tight pipo,cail- ed, ! think, & syphon, by which water can be tsken s considerable distance, even over an elevation.Full parti-ulars about thess different ways, and others, of which I do not koow, and the cost of each.And aiso the partieular circumstance fn whish each.(ne might be meat profitable over the other.Answers to the above will be considered a great favor, not only to this subscriber aod reader of the \u2018Witness,\u2019 but I am sure will be valusble information to many cf your readers.Ans.\u2014This la too big 2 contract for eme query to cover.It would take a volume on hydraulics to furnish \u20ac reply.And, by tho way, would It not be = good plin to get n manual on that aub- feet and atuéy It up suffictentiy to find out which would be the most feasible way of getting à water supply in the writer's circumstances?For example, it world bd ot no use to get à hydraulic ram without a rut ning stream of sufficient sise and fat! to drive it.Tell me what era your water facilities, aoû I will try to suggest what would de the best and cheapest way of sup- LUMP JAW CURE.Tt cures soy case of lamp Jew that le worth grise Dos it autre sod for good dreds cases cured during your.Bally Safe to use, sod sold vmder this GUARANTEE: { lying water to your stesk.Or write to That if it fsile your money la to be returned.aterons, of Brantford, for a windmill cir- Price, #3 à bottle.Sect by mail recois a euler.A windmili will work any place amount.Kliustrated trestise on ser where the wind blows.FREE to resders of WU TrertmontaL: Duan 6: Dares mad\u2018 arvoral pictios of = n BIR,\u2014 re POULTRY AND PETS.résines Lünp Je Ours.and can omtify #18 Jump fa 20 fi Levaaced.\u201cD'have carsû the [This deportaunt & wader the chavye of Xv.8.J, young and ald cat.oa Andres, whe will newer any questions sexs through wit cure say aes a: wn sary age C3 « Witness.Jliostions never no longer necemerz \u201c ?re Fomine Lamy ve.POULTRY PARAGRAPHS.Fv ous wha Lis aon ronte to Tab fo LARK, To ki @ ben in geod condition fer lnylag rate Cr ie .a ea, of warm mized food In tbe morning, 1 do New \u2018Witness\u2019 Sewing Machine.A nie Machine, is maputectares for ws by oe of acturers on this ben: fully teed, would not name it after the \u2018Wi \u201ci It 1s equal to the high-priced machines in fuish and workmansbip, will de = work, and last just 3 leas.The regular price of thie mac! 0 ls 466, and 1 requently sold at .a special arrangement we are enabled té e very low offer to \u2018Witness\u2019 subscribers.Remember, this Machine is ns advertised : Bete 15 bo FISK, a3 each vurchaser is guaranteed if the Machine in noi as represented the best sewi and must be a good article er we \u2018when sess, It can be returded.and the money will be refunded.\u2018The machine embodies all the points found in other machines.The - far as ble, are made of st & bardened at liable to wear.1s provided ac tbat any wesr that may oscur eas taken up by simply turning o screw, The machine is specially sdapted to genern! famfly use, dreesmakors, mantufaetur- ore of shiris, underwear, etc.It is a quick and fight running Machine,apd hes the very latest improvements.Is Strong, Duradle and This Sewing Macnine Uses straight self.eetting needle.and iv so sample apd easy te mme ee A EE ae Le Root directes, WIE seiomptsles such * practice by ni Mecutse, 29 at no teacher In required.The machine will be delivered threaded.resdy jon, (pe fotos outfit Is euppisod: One Cutter.wbich we adjust before Setvery.cher, with Osuge, showing correct th of tucks, from one-eighth of aa toch, thus obviating the tedious \u2018plcking out\u2019 of early Ove Ruffier and Sairring Plate, a Bratder, (feet and slide), Narrow Hemmer sad Piler Poot, ome plece, and n set of Hemmera, four widths, A Binder, alse 8 Quilter, which ts 80 stmpie to attach, ft will be found a great convenience fn country euhscribers homes.The book of Instructions gives explicit directions and an (Tlustration of mek of the above as npersted Besides the abov re suppiled, 11 assorted needles, § bobbing, 1 sevew driver, and | oi} can.The table fuished wood, having a drep leaf extemston with a es aupport.end fou were.In fuel ody who Bas tried the he rote Ret me part is exactly similar to à 900 time use in ber home.We have shipped & aumber ot machines all over the minion, and whererer they bave gone becriber bas been well pleased.© any Bouvewite Gesiring & sewio machine, thid le an epportunity te get cn tree of cost.GIVEN ONLY TO \u2018WITNESS\u2019 SUBSCRIBERS for twelve new te ti Witness' at 23.00 each: Or for six mew subecriptions to the at 70.00 x ol: of for two a lubscriptions & 00 each and $90.00; or new So au to the \u201cWeekly Witness'at 61.00 eh 18: hecript! + the \u2018Weekly\u2019 at $1.0 fac 01.00 additional: or for \u20ac mew Fubesriptions tv the Gus ce and $80 additions]; or for 3 Rew subueriptions te the \u201cWeekly lm 1 pet 1 rate.Brey Gh Mon see .5 pa 3 = this Machine je simply soles gt AL Ay eu or for 18 nev su +) 18 THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.x 6, 1800, r .INTELLIGENCE FIGURES.Sing ri Theor th Ft oa a\u201d \"mF Fg debi ono he ry hotel being sent Fou appeared \u2018and \u2018dimed 4 Tarte Le folied.\u2018are the lu Mr.J.Stewart Miter, clerk in H.Man agreement to transfer the property of vears of study and investigation.Customs, who resided at 20 Buckingham became interested in the study of par chology through teaching it in c work at Alma College and five or six Years axo 1 became convinced not that the current theory regarding spiritualism was correct, but that underneath all the deception and artifices practised throughout the country under the name of spiritualism there was a great dea! of natu.val phenomena.As principal of Alma Collexe 1 becams specially interested in 4.Ups and Downs in Stock Exchange Business During Five Months.[at on.Afterwards ir will be Leopenes under the new management, A PLEBISCITE RESOLUTION.The Palmerston district of the Methodist Church at its recent meeting passed the following resolutions regarding the ite 1\u2014 trafic bay asumed ouch praportiosa.ier scam \u201cto territy gov- avenue, fell into the Lachine cana), near the Montreal Warehousing Company's building, on Thursday morning.Ie was\u2019 drowned, though the body was taken | trom the water in a very short, time after the accident.Mr.Miller was 65 years old.A COMPLETE TABLE OF MISCELLANEQUS SHARES, MINES, STREET RAILS, BANKS AND BONDS\u2014MORE THAN THREE MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND SHARES CHANGE HANDS, The Rev.Dr.Amaron has received à ! cal Ito the pastorate of the Preebyterian Church of St.Ann, Illinois.The mat Now that five months of a phenomenal pear on the local stock exchange have elapsed, the several weekly and monthly tables, started by the \u2018Witness\u2019 in January, and continued periodically, are here made use of to register the range of local securities, from the beginning of the year tables will be found useful by all who are interested in the course of the market, and especially by those who base their operations upon the intelligence of fig: ures.Tables of this kind are, of course, of value only so far as they are reliable, and no effort has been spared to make month the general tendency of values was downward, caused by tight money and previous inflation, but towards tho end a better tone prevailed.Royal Flee tric made a gain of 12 points, Richelieu of 4% points, Colored Cotton of 17 points.Dominion Cotton of 5% points, Dominion Coal Common, 7 pots, and Montreal Street, 5 points, comparing the openings with the closings.Gas lost 8 points, Canadian Pacific 2% points, Payne 25 cents, and Montreal and London 13% cents, again comparing openings with closings.The April sles exceeded those of Jany.ary, but were less than those of any other month.The principal changes in the miscellaneous list were in Canadian Pa- points; New Stock, do., 31 points; To routo Street, 4 points; Twin City, 4% pots; and Halifax Street, 5 pointe The main features of the mouth were the heavy trailing and strength of Canadian Pacifie, the large turnover in mines, and the slump in Montreal Street.The principal business was Canadian Pacific, 84,066 shares; Gas, 6,053 shares; Richelieu, 8,251 shares; War Eagle, 147.375 shares; ['ayne, 126,000 shares; Republic, \u2018379,530 shares; Montreal Street, now and old stock, 21,117 shares; Toronto Street, 14,065 shares, and Twiu City, 13,062 ahares The sales by months are as follows: \u2014 January \u201470,488, miscellaneous; 315,050, mines; 47,496, street rails; 1,088, banks; total, 444,018 shares.Honds, $40,900.srnments and members of parliament, and, Whereas, Lord Wolsely's words that \u2018There are yo noms great battles to be fought: soms oat enemies to bs encountered, by the United Kingdom.\u2019 But the most Rressizg enemy In drink.It kills more than all our newest weapons of warfare, and not only destroyn the body, but the mind and the soul also,\u201d are still terri: bly true: and, Whereas, the ple of this Dominion have apoken, with no uncertain sound, thelr ant Iam to this body and soul-destroy- Ing siners, giving outside Quebec Province, over 107,000 mnjority for prohi- carrying outside of Quebec Province, 130 constituencies by, fn most cases, large majorities; Therefore, be It resolved, that tn the opinion of this district meeting, the goveru- ment +re bound bd the people's mandate, to act, and that nothing short of provineial probibition, will satisfy the e bition, and investigating mental sciences, both theo retically and experimentally, and T fina) ly became convinced that telepathy and clairvovance were positive facts, and that there were many phenomens that were not explained even by them.The question of the origin of these phenomena \u2018hen arose.One theory held by a great many people in the church is that it io all deviley; then there is Carpenter's theory of mental cerebration, and the other theory that the phenomena are caused by the spirits of dead or so called desd.Investigation and study convinced me that the last was the only theory to fit the case.I was led up eradually to a firm conviction in this truth, and the statements made that I named Joseph whose home is on ter has been referred to the Ch Presbytery, and will also come before tl Montreal Presbytery at its The intentions ceptance, or otherwise, of the call, sre not yet known.next meeting.of Dr.Amaron as to ac- Avery Lanoix a tailor, living on St.Lawrence street, was arrested at 5.45 on Raturday morning by Detective Cold ot: warrant, charging him with having stolen a horse and buggy belonging to Mr, A.Meunier, street, a short time ago.drove the animal 60 miles in five hours, liverymen, 45 Bonsecours It appears he tterly ruining it.About noon on Wednesday a man in, a atone-mason, t.Dominique street, cific, which opened at 87% and closed at 97%, a gam of 10% points : Duluth Pre ferred, which opened at 8% and closed at 134, an advance of 4% points, and Duluth Common, which opened at 3% and closed at 5%.a gain of 14 point, or fifty percent.The feature in mining stocke was the listing of Republic, which opened at $1.31 and closed at $1.41, a gain of 9% cents, on sales of nearly 13%, 000 shares.War Eagle advanced 18 cents and Payne 13% cents, while Montreal and London receded 2 cents on heavy realiz- iug sales.Montreal Street again forged ahead, and made a net advance of 14 pointe.The advances of the last days of April iTeceived a check very early in May, ow.was convinced by a single exhibition of clairvoyance in Detroit are most ab- turd.That is my position in the mat- The Rev.B.F.Austin, MA, BD, late principal of Alma Ladies\u2019 College, St as, was born on Sept.21, 1830, in the Township of Brighton, County of Northumberland, and was married on June 16, 1881, to Miss Frances Amanda Conuell.Mr.Austin was educated at Albert University, Belleville, having received hin preparatory training at the Brighton Grammar and common schools.At the age of sixteen he began teaching ia the Township of Brighton, where Le fell off a scaffold on which he was working, at a new building on Rachel street.He apparently sustained no very serious injury.In the fall he struck « plank, breaking it in two, and sustained a cut and bruise on the forehead and cheek by striking a stone.He was unconscious for a short time.The ambulance took him home.a At he freight levator of the Cane.ian Sugar Refinery Company, Point Bt.Charles, at nine o'clock on Wednesday | night, Jos.Lecavalier, of Gordon avenue, Verdun, and Geo.West, Chateauguay street, were seriously injured.The for mer had his chest badly crushed, and died on Saturday.West has a bro- \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 AUSTIN HERESY CASB, LATE PRINCIPAL OF ALMA COL LEGE THINKS THAT HE HAS NOT BEEN FAIRLY TREATED, | to date, in monthly sequence.These | i these figures as aocurate as possible.The figures practically tell their own story, but a brief commentary may be useful- ln January nearly half a million shares bands.In that month Canadian Pacitic, tGiss, Richelieu, Toronto Street, Montreal Street, Royal Electric, Dominion Cotton and War Eagle were the most active stocks, and ali made good profite.Over three hundred and fifteen thousand shares of the latter were sold, and the difference between the highest and lowest price was 44% cents.Twin City was listed, but only 125 shares were sold.February was the banner month of the year, so far as the volume of business was concerned, nearly a million shares February\u201478,303, miscellaneous; 8%, 335, nunes; 67,788, street rails; 961, bauxs; total, J77.417 shares; boads, $56, 600.March\u201489,315, miscellaneous; 448,218, mines; 41,497, street rails; 1.016, banks; total, 580.041 shares.Bonds, $18,700.April\u201474,887, miscellaneous; 377,243, mines; 46,913, street rails; 1,233, hanks; total, 500.220 shares.Bonds, $12,000, May\u201479,638, miscellaneous; 734,900, mines; 49,154 street rails: 843 banks; total, 863.983; bonds, $17,000.Thus, May was the second active month of the year in spite of the money difficulty, and this amount of business in one month woul! have been considered remarkable Windsor.Ont., June 1.\u2014The trial of the Rev.B.F.Austin, ex-principal of Alma College, St.Thomas, cn à charge of heresy before the London Methodist Conference in session at Windsor, to-day, proved to be very sensational.De.Austin threw a bomb into the conforence y th à doll: rth of to th i under the most favorable conditions a \" : ' remained three and a half years.In ken jaw, and there is à euspicion of à Pods a ed rhe \u201cpredomi: and the pion York, year ago.by declari himself in Unequivonal terms 3871 he entered the ministry of the [fractured skull, but hope is given of his nauce was again in mines, of which more but excepting in Montreal Street, one, Total for the five months\u2014381,637, mis- 7 ardent ren in modern me Methodist Episcopal Church, and was or- recovery.than 830.000 shares were sold, divided {or two of the mines and some of the min cellaneous i 2,006,043, mines; 252,880, ism.Four charges of heresy were dained in 1877.During his sttendacce The death occurred on Thursday at his residence, 275 St, Denia street, of Mr, D.Wilfrid Brunet, senior partner of the firm of D.W.& A.E.Brunet, 30 .8t.James street.The deceascd was in his .sixty-seventh year.He had been for over thirty years connected with the Jacques Cartier Bank, for some time as | manager of the Ontario street hranch.Lately he became treasurer of the Mont- fort Railway.The striking trackmen on the Grand Trunk Railway have gone to work again.There was much inconvenience to the company in many ways, the men have to some extent lost their time, and perhaps it may take some time for them to forget the troubles.One feature of the whole strike cannot fail to be noticed, and it is highly creditable to the strikers \u2014not an accident oceurred on the line.The carefulness of the company is also epic ™™ dent in this fact.There was no lawless cellaneous list, values have shown no time ago preferred against Dr.Austin marked declines, and, indeed, in several instances, gains have to he recorded.Thus, Canadian Pacific, which closed last month at 97%, closed yesterday at 99%, an advance of 1% point on the large business of nearly 55,000 shares; and by the same comparison, Richelieu made a gain of 2% points; Telephone, 3%points; Montreal Cotton, 1% point; Windsor Hotel, 5 points; War Eagle, 5 cents; Merchants\u2019 Bank, 5 points; and Bank of Toronto, 1 point.Hy the same comparison, on the other hand, Royal Electne declined 6% points; Gas, 3 pointe; Cable, 1% point: Dominion Cotton, 3 points; Duluth Preferred, 1y point; and Duluth Canmon, % point; Payne Mine, declined 13 cents; Montreal the diminution in the activity in mining |& London, 16 cents; and Republic, 9 points; New Stock, do., 28 points; and securities.During the early part of the cents; Montreal Street, declined 20% Toronto Street, 7 points.Table ebowing the fluctuations in stocksand No.of shares sold for the five months ending May 3i: amongst War Eagle, Payne and Montreal and London, the latter two having been listed in this month.Canadian Pacific was again active and higher, followed by Gas, Electric, Cable, Duluth and Montreal Street Railway.The noticeable differences between highest and lowest were : Montreal Street, 29 points ; Elec: tric, 14% points ; Gas, 6% points ; Du: luth Pr>ferred, 3% points: Dominion Cotton, 4% points ; Montreal Cotton, 8 points ; War Eagle.22 cents; Payne, $1.20 ; Montreal and London, 22 cents, and Twin City on sales of nearly 29,000 shares, 8% points.March was less active than February, but more so than January, the falling off in the total of March compared with February being caused to a large extent by street rails; 65,129, banks; bonds, $146, 400, Grand total for the five months\u20143,308,- 650, shares; 3148,400, bonds.À comparison of the figures which the various stocks were considered to be worth at the beginning of the year with tha closing figures of yesterday, shows some conmderable inflations, in spite of the hammering some of the securities have received recently.The most noticeable of these are, Canadian Paci- (fie, 13% points; Royal Electric, 18% points; Richelieu, 8K pointe; Telephone, 8 points; Colored Cotton, D points; Vu luth Preferred, 4 points; Duluth Common, 1% points; Dominion Coal, Common, 22 points; War Eagle, 76 cents; Payne, 69 cents; Montreal Street, 244 at the university he edited the \u2018Temperance Union,\u2019 and in vacation time lee tured and organized lodges.He graduated B.A.in 1877 and BD.in 1881, preached a year in the Brighton circuit, 8 year in Frankfort circuit, one year each in Cobourg and Ottawa, three years in Prescott, and then went to Metropolitan Church in Ottawa, from which, after three months\u2019 pastorate, he was taken to his late position in Alma College.Mr.Austin has been busy with his pen for many years, In 1879 he published a volume of sermons by various ministers, under the title of \u2018The M.E.Pu) the profits being devoted to minions.In 1880 he published a small volume entitled \u2018Sins of the Times\u2019; in IR84, \u201cThe Gonorl to the Poor va.Pew Kents\u2019: in 18%, à pamphlet on \u201cThe Jesuits,\u2019 which has already run through four editions and in the same vear he edited a handsome \\ January.Feb March.A .Open .ness on the part of the strikers, and such Miscellareous\u2014 High Low.High Low, High.\u201cLow.High Low.rd Low.oF as.pore, sharon volume.entitled : Woman: Her Charec-| outbresks as did occur of popular feeling Canadimo Pacific sl BY BY sk ITY i NA 90 85% i 197,20 THE REV.B.F.AUSTIN, M.A.B.D.|[ter, Culture and Calling.were easily checked.Royal Blectric 176% 363 88%, ds 187 my a 10% 162 180 28,784 .\u2014_\u2014\u2014 Murd itted in the bh py moe EE HE me BEE HE ue hea Woe of Po sn or Fano teh hoe Cable .mm \"in 18 14 de, IB x ow ess [ley.The most important charge was MONTREAL NEWS, o omothle street on Wednes- Tel h 18 15 am 16 4 8 y bol fraudulent of epirit- ° day afternoon.The victim was Mrs, egrapl 7 7 % 177 174% 16 138 11324 1% 2898 upholding a fraudulent system spi hie Gregoire Hebe, ; id Telephone lis Jen ie.GX mT my ad a Lid uglism, and où this and two others Dr.\u2014_ Soa rary cavire Hebert, qrice a widow, Lominion Cott % 1] ne 1 Fa 15% 13 116 107 x4 16 Wad 16788 Austin was found guilty by a committee Hancock Post, No.105, G.A.R., on \u201cout forts ive years 3 se who kept à Montreal Cotton ©.WOE Ue, 16 180d 101 usw Lex wow 157 eK Lai of the St.Thomas district and suspended Tuesday decorated the graves of the deed yall store at No.338 St, othe street, Datuth Eroserced wow My he Gn Hy UE \u201choi i § UW of [until the next meeting of the confer of \u2018the United States army who lie in the found on à sofa st feet o'er.abet Domislon Con) Protorrel oe nx ur ris 1303 ni 19 * me sm + ui* 1 noe Dr.Austin did not appear before this Fromme Semeteries.Me.H.C.8 fortunate és br Bi skull had been crushed Dominiou Coal Com.54 5 OH uy ow we LL Nh ne B® 138 committee, but sent a brief written de | 0 Rifles in camp last i pt ur from 2 heavy bot- New tp 1x atix \u2026- hy 1M et 106 110 ue nx ow a fence.a todays versie n be Three week, and concluded their ari by Tn in- last seer alive at about half gant ter Len pr dos BROOM orn hE i EWR ped down ed Seinen re a he ai btn ne ave Bid Bi re LENE und Toad Trust ÿ 50: i a + six HK WM NM NH [missed with a few words the minor Thich were highly praised by the inspect: Pere bore: yimese say an elderly man en- North-West Land ._.A A : 17 17 5 ns on P I HY charges brought, péuimet him, sud Pod The Rev.Mearns x se v1 Crossley during the frerimon and there wan North-West Land s 5 .- .; : = i itl te ti .ui a .Now Loy, and | .14 : \u201c = = : 8 154 1» Greded witt ation \u201cHe in course of their evangelistic services once a quarrel between the unknown and Pre re no ° PR Er (ee Je qu | Pi, Chr tk nly me Ph aa he pie of hi that apirituali sane.ci e soci y 3 i nes\u2014 nee Tome by ible Venchiag, | He' gave a ment in fre parlor, or, as it is called, the tn cust-bound or on Ontario street, which = 2 \" number of his own personal experiences modern dance.e ran to catch, e police are ing Pre DS 51.06 H05 18 is on i ie 32 A jme 3a sas 1a which be claimed had converted him to The annual Fete Dieu procession on the murderer._ -\u2014 * Montreal & \u2026 5676 SU 3x 5 a 26 Sl% 85 Géxa Mea; the doctrine.He had, he said, visited a Sunday of the Roman Catholic Church THE FALLEN AT RIDGEWAY, Republic .ne .Coo LOM 16 18 13% 10% 18 SAW woman mind-reader in Detroit, and the was attended with good weather, and im- 41% hd : 2760 information she gave him concerning bim- mense crowds gathered on the line of the Toronto, June 2\u2014Queen's Park was self convinced him that the science was procession, which was from Notre Dame visited by hundreds this afternoon, when.not to be lightly treated.\u2018You may say parish church to St.James Cathedral, {the Volunteer monument erected to those Hid sa that wpiritualism is the work of the) yg.R.C.Smith, B.C.L-, has been 2p who fell ia the Fenian Raid of 1866, was 16 wey devi said Dr.Austin.\u2018that\u2019s an essy pointed to the professorial chair of com- decorated by the Veterans Association.e Ssur6 disposition to make of the matter, but ; il Uni j The veterans paraded at Clarence wquare 138 1335 it does not prove anything.\u2019 mercial law in McGill University to suc- and, accompanied by the drill corps of \" I yl je .n on His concluding words were : \u2018I may Pi ersoonald Macmaster, #< Nor the public schools, and cadets of the col- Tn fall in this fight; I may have to abandon olson in the chair of mechanical engineer.legiate institutes, marched by way of 350 the old [eligion for a broader one, but ing in the same university.Spadina avenue and Queen street up the All neuf [recommied by the wore\" \" **| The Chinese have opened s heathen TERE by \u2018the \"Bower patient \"ine 130 \u201853 Throughout his address Dr.Austin was temple, calied s joss house, for the par: various schools, the Battleford and Ba- m 167 continually interrupted, and the chair Healar form of Jeatben ceremonial aed toche columns and members of the city \"1 = bad a difficult time maintaining order, of support or confideuce the Chinoce have regiments, and proceeded to decorate the A th [20 great was the opposition to the speak- | haie dde TE oi likely develop oDUment, after which addresses were 190% = When he had finished, one or two later how far these sent ta exist in delivered.M ni inisters, personal friends of Dr.Austin, M tree] sentiments exis \u2014_\u2014 in 18 tried to appleud, but were met ith loud pi + (Presb ) Church THE MAZET INQUIRY.National .se 81 hisses and cries of \u2018Shame\u2019 from over ey Street yterian) Chu: 5.J 3\u2014During t i Easter Townatips us né |the building, the Rev.Mr.Dewey, celebrated its demi: frite Bor one Hor DV rise the veamion Ditto, Rights io 3 : After some deliberation tbe conference jubilee on Sunday and during the Previ-[noon, the chnirman directed the ser Ville Marie \u2026 ) 10 with but two dissenting votes passed the |ous week by appropriate services.The t-at-erme to remove Mr.Henderson, Ottawa \u2026.9 14 following resolution : \u2014 church was on Sunday declared free of all Captain Prices counsel, because cf bis ry \"That the charges preferred agaiust Dr.| debt, in which both the pastor and peo- defiant attitude towards the committee.Boa 9 Austin, having been sustained and prov- ple rejoice exceedingly.the officer approsc him, Hq ds sn ) As the officer approsched him, Hender- Colored Cottu® .\u2026 \u2026 wo a0 oe ou.00% 1014 $3.000 jen, he be deposed from the ministry of Me, Liboire Nault.a bicycle rider, in son drew à clasp knife from his pocket, Bal melcphone .Ji Hse ho the Methodist Church! an effort to avoid running into some Mr.Mazet yelled to him to nut ft up, Corgoration | jus 10% ; Dr, Austin made a brief address, in jadies on wherls on Thursday evening at and everyone in the room epretig to his City 7 percent fm 1% 20e which he said he had but voiced the eon.(1, corer of Notre Deme and Dupré |feet.The place was in wild confusion, Cable Regist + o% 184 12m0 victions of an honest man.He declared étreeta, chose the alternative of colliding Henderson still resisting the gergeant.as.Halifax Liebe and Heat 107 107 1:00 [that he hed no enmity against any mem.with a garbage cart.He was so severely arma, put the knife away and denied he Gable -Corpon .ou re ve vo wenn or 10% A we ber of the conference, and wished Meth.hurt that he died on Friday afternoon at had deawn it.Mr.Mazet appealed to === [odiem every success.Notre Dame Hospital.Captain Price, as an officer of the law, * Kz-Dividend.312.500 Toronto.June 3.\u2014The Rev.Dr.Aus- Jouis Heausciour, an aged herder, fel) and at his request Henderson left the tin.the former principal of Alma Methodist College.5t, Thomas, who wes do.room.Mr.Maset had the incident rot over dead on Wednesday aft hile y afternoon whi sitting talking to some companiona in à SHEFFORD Wore T.U.CONVEN- N.The seventh annual convention of Shel.Rockwell, Waterioo, foré County W.C.T.U.will be held is the Universalist Church, Waterloo, gates, and sll requiring billets will please send their names at once to Mrs.N.O, convener of billeting committee.Mrs, Sanderson, provincial president; Mise Dougall, of Montreal.and other prominent temperance pris ry Thursday and Friday, June 16! workers, will be present during the con- ORMBTOWN PEOPLE DRCIDED.At a meeting of the temperanos people of Ormatown and vicinity, held on Wednesday evening, in MeDougal Hall, pre sided over by Mr.Alex.Mills, it was posed from the ministry of the Method- fat Church by the London Conference at Windsor.arrived home yesterday, and at his residence last night discussed briefly the finding of the committee in the chargeb of hereay preferred agninet him.Dr.Austin said that had he allowed his pasture near Park avenue and Van Horne street, He was thought to be a, victim to the unusual best.The remains were taken to his home, 00 McGuire street.Three well-known citizens were among the Montreal dead last week.Major Mil.loy died on Friday at his home in Mont.ed in the \u2014\u2014 J VE ,; \\ vi | \u2014 \u2014 ., ~e 7 >, < \u201cNC rn j CAN I ÿ AY i A vs 3 ta tk | AL ER | 14 nips mm me = WALL STREET METHODIST CHURCH WHERE THE CON- IN SESSION.renceville, Knowlton, Clarenceville, Bed- ford, Frelighsburg and Cowanarille, He was continuously for 21 years in the Waterloo district, and in 1887 waa elected chairman, being stationed at Clarence- ville at the time.In 1800 he went to Brockville as pastor of St.George Street Church, and after being there a year was elected chairman of the district.That wae the year in which the Montreal Conference last met in Brockville.Three years later he was removed to Pembroke, remaining five years in that district, all of which time he was chairman.Last year he went to Cornwall, and was elected chairman of the Matilda district.As & pastor he has met with great snc- cens wherever he has labored, and few men in the Methodist Church are held in higher esteem by all classes of the community who have had the plessure of bis acquaintance than Mr.Cairns.The same year in which he was or dained Mr.Cairns married Mim Mountain, of Ulverton.She died in 1877, and «bout & year after he was married to Miss Smalley, of Richmond, Que.He has « family of three children.His son is in the printing business in Toronto, one daughter is taking a musical course 3 Whitty College, and the other is at e.Brockville, June 2\u2014When the confer enap resummed its session yesterday afternoon, the first order of business was the presentation of the report of the super.annustion fund, by the Rev.Dr.Hunter.The subscriptions have been almost entirely paid up.The estimated income had been ized, and the debt reduced by nearly $3,000.The investments amounted to $230,208.The available re sourcos are, however, not sufficient, and ail allowances to superannated ministers are subject to à discount of ten percent.The Rev.Dr.Griffith, late president, made a report of the rulings on the administration of discipline during the year, The Rev.Dr.Courtice, editor of the \u2018Christian Guardian,\u2019 presented a re of the publishing house.CONFERENCE COMMITTEES.The nominating committee ted ts report, recommending that standing committess of conference be as fol ws: Eduveations] -\u2014 Ministers, Dr.Shaw (treasurer), Salem Bland (secretary), Dr.Mauley Benson, Dr.Ryckmen, J.B.Hicks, W.8.Jameson; laymen, Dr.La- \u201cTing, ling,\u201d goes the Bell-flower, Standing Just as if they all didn't know the hour When the sermon is begun ! straight and tall in the sun, 19 \u201c+ GHMPEL IN THE\u201d WooDSi-i- \u201c All's ready, and Jack's-in-the-Pulpit Ha grew there, by-the-way, .And the sounding-h And the Standing upright, and the nicest fit, Till the middle of June, from May! Of dark brown satin his cost is It's the fashion here, you know, 's turned over his head, He is shy, and likes it so! The birds are flighty and never mind, Dr.Greenleaf preaches to them, They sometimes sing in the choir\u2014it's kind But they seldom isten\u2014\u2014ahem Li wd w'rs are uetti sun with shade, ooquetting And laughing the livelong day.For a blossom can not be serious made, Whatever you do or say, Bo the breezes the purple Bell-flowers away, The morn and the eve between, And Jack's forgotten what he should say In his pulpit of brown and green ! KAY LIVINGSTONE vell, Chas.Morton, Wm.Glidden, Col.MaLaren.State of Work\u2014Ministers, W.H.Ems- ley, J.B.Robeson, Joseph Hagar, W.F.Perley, Arthur Wikinson, J.M.Tre dres, F.G.Lett, L.M.England, Wm.Henderson, W.W.Chantler, W.A.Hannah; laymen, J.M.Elliott, Jes.Bessell, Joseph Moorehouse, G.C.Ault, Robert Booth, J.L.McCullough, W.E.Hunt, 8.Stevens, John Brymner, Henry Winter, Gordon R.Putnam.Contingent Fund\u2014Ministers, F.C.Brown, D.C.Banderson, W.H.Sper ling, Q.M.Delong, G.McRitchie, Rich- ord Corrigan, Ass O.Watt; laymen, J.Macdonald Oxley, A.McDougall, William Thompson, Edward Clark, Alfred Crack, W.WV.Dalgleish, David England.Temperance\u2014Ministers, G.Huxtahle, George Stafford, Wm.Pyke, Wm.Craig, F.Chisholm, Jobn Grenell, James Lawson, F.A.Reach, J.H.Murray, W.B.Tucker, Ph.D., F.W.A.Meyer; laymen, Joseph H.Carson, W.Uaverley, J.Edwards, Robert Scott, .=.Zoyle, David McElroy, Wm.H.Lambly, 8am.J.W.A.Bradford, W.W.Dal- The following resolution, moved by the Rev.T.G.Williams, D.D., seconded by the Rev.Wm.Jackson, D.D., gave rise to some sherp discussion, and was finally passed unanimously: \u2014 \u2018That this conference hereby expresses that our brethren, members of the Methodist Church within the bounds of the Montreal Conference, residing on the Island of Anticosti, have, by the veiled expression \u201cnatural and fair inference,\u201d been accused of one of the most heinous crimes of ancient or modern times, vis., that of luring vessels upos rocky cousts that the wreckers might profit by che loss of the property of others, even though this lose is almost certain to involve the sacrifice of human life.And inasmuch as the awful crime has been indignantly denied and proof of the alleged crime demanded by the persons accused, ard inasmuch as the attempt to reply to the challenge for proof is not only irrelevant, but entirely\u2019 incondusive, which served to exhibit openly the weakness and utter groundiessness of the charge made by a minister of the Crown ou the floor of the House of Commons, we do not hesitate to charwcterize these accusations against Methodists and named as members of our church by the Hon.Israel Tarte as unjust and untrue, and affirm that a gross insult hes been offered our church by the Minister of Public Works; \u2018Agd farther, we hold that in view of the failure to prove that the accused have been guilty of this heinous crime, not only against Christianity, but also against the sentiment of all who are rot hopeleedy sunk in barbarism, the Hon.Tsrael Torte is bound to retract his words and apologise for them as publicly the members of a church which holds a proud eminence among the law-abiding citizens of our Dominion, and upon which the Hon.Isreal Tarte has with such au- dacity cast an unprovoked inswit, And as during the months which os be made his unproven charge against\u2019 have elapsed since he uttered what we consider a base slander no apology has been offered nor any retraction bes been made, we now beg to call the attention of the brethren of our church throughout the Dominion to this matter and ask that they join with us in demanding an apdogy for the groes attack on our beloved Methodiam, and to which we here affirm we will not tamely submit, no matter by what spirit it may be inspired or from what source it may come.\u2018And further, that a copy of the resolution be forwarded to Bir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of the Dominion, by the secretary of the conference.We also bereby most heartily approve of and endorse the manly course of our ex-presi- dent, Dr.Griffith, in what we consider his vindication of the innocence of our brethren against the cowardly attack on the floor of the House of Commons.\u2019 The session then closed with the benediction by the Rev.McRitchie.MONTREAL THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE.The evening session was taken up wath reports of the committee on education and missions and an address on missions by the Rev.O.L.Kilborn, M.D., of the China mission.The Rev.Dr.Jackson presided, and after the usual opening exercises the Rev.Dr.Shew, principal of the Wesleyan Theological College, Montreal, presented his report of that institution for the past year.tedorring to the Educational Fund of tbe Montreal Conference, Dr.Shaw pointed out that there had been « gratifying increase in contributions during the past year.The total is $3,004.79, an increase of 9266.52 over the previous year.Of loans advanced to students in Mcotreal Conference during the year there bad been refunded $340.05.By students from all conferences there had been refunded $3,- 638.08, and during the last quadrennium the refunds amounted to over $8,000.Principal Fianders presented a report from Stanstead College.The work of the college had been carried on most har moniously and with marked features of encouragement.The total number of students registered during the three terms was 140, of which 61 were girls and 70 boys.Of these, 51 were residential.with an average attendance of ** The Rev.Dr.Kilborn, missionary to China, who is bome on furlough, after an absence of eight years, gave a very interesting address on the work being done at the missions in that land.Île deait at length with the characteristics and peculiarities of the people, their religion and the difficulties the missionaries bad to contend with in presenting the relizion of Jesus Christ to them.The interesting session then closed with the benediction.Rrockville, Ont, June 2.\u2014The confer ence opened this moruing at 9.30 with devotional exercises conducted by the Rev.Dr.Rose.The minutes of yesterday were read and approved, for services were voted to the Rev.W.Philip, B.A, BD.\u201cMoved by the Bev.D.C.Bundersca, mcopded by the Rev.Dr.Jackson, that this conference desires to place on record ita high appresistion of the services of the Rev.W.Philp, B.A., B.D., who has gives fifteen years\u2019 continuous services im the clerical work of the couference.With the pen of a ready writer, the brain of an expert statisticisn and the literary culture of an essayist, be has taken charge of the records of this conferenee and we hereby recognise his very valua.bie work and tender to him our hearty thanks.\u2019 REVERTING TO ANTICOSTL It was moved by the Rev.Dr.Wil liams, seconded by the Rev.Principal Shaw and iesolved that: \u2018Having heard the statement of our late president, the Rev.T.Griffith concerning our work in Anticosti the conference hereby expresses its deep sympathy with our Anticosti brethren in their peculiar difficulties and trials and is glad to bear from Dr.Griffith of the considerations, promptness and fairness of the Hon.Mr.Merchand, the Premier of Quebec, and of the Hon.H.T.Duffy, Minister of Public Works, in their action relative to the matter.This ecnference is also grateful to God and glad to assure the Methodists of Canpda that through our ministers who bave been sent to Fox Bey and during last year through the labors of Bro.Argue, the privilege of education and tbe ad vantages and blessings of Christian wor ship bave been maintained for the settlers with manifest token of the divine approval and that a copy of the former part of this resolution be communicated to the Hon.Premier of Quebec.An invitation was received from Gananoque to hold the conference of 1900 at that place, which was accepted.WALL STREET CHURCH.beri has now two fine Methodist churcl \u2018ail Street and George Street, with large and influential congregations.The first Methodist Church (now Wall street) was erected in 18%.This was followed by a more pretentious strec ture in 1862, and remodelled in 1875 and 1880.In 1906 the present handsome structure was erected, the Rev.Dr.Grif.fiths, the retiring president of the Com ference, being pastor.The first settled pastor was the Rev.Anson Green, and those who have succeeded him are Mesers.Frunklin Meteof, Henry Shaler, John Black, Wm.Ryerson, Wm.Smith, Wm.Coleman, Wellington Jeffers, John Carroll, W.H.Williams, E.Healey, Con rad Henderson, Henry Wilkinson, Wma.Haw, Wm.Andrews, Joseph Elliott, Mulkins, W, Garrett, John Bredin, Ryerson, Richard Whitney, Brock Howard, W.H.Pool, Wm.Scott, James Elliott, Wm.Galbraith, T.G.Williams, James Allen, W.H.Fmoley.Dr.figua- ders, Dr.Grifith end the Rev.Dr.was ised in 1876, and in the folio: the present -chureh edifice \u2014 rd under the pastorate of the Rev, Traveller, now of Chicago, and DQMINION PARLIAMENT.__ | Drummond Counties Railway Bill Again Discussed in the House, SENATOR DANDURAND'S BILL TO LIMIT USURY.Some Awful Instances Qiven of the Rapacity of Montreal's Financial Blood Suckers.THE ALASKA BOUNDARY QUESTION AND THE HIGH JOINT COM- .MISSION, It was announced in the House of Commons, on Monday evening, May 3, that the government had in course of preparation a bill to provide for the ap- Pointment of a railway commission.BOUNDARY OF ALASKA.Lieut.-Col.Prior (Vietoria) quoted the Washington despatch of May 29, widely published, which alleged that Canada had preferred a demand that in the terms of arbitration on the Alaskan boundary, whatever the result, Canada shall be entitled to Pyramid Harbor and a strip of territory along the Lynn caust and that, further, the receipt of this demand on our part had practically broken off an) agreement which was already under way.The Prime Minister was at a loss to ac- eount for the series of articles appesring in the American press, whose purpose seems to be to create the impression that Canada has assumed an attitude of Lu- ressonablenees in the negotistions.It had been suggested that the Washington authorities must be interested in their publication, but it was his duty to ssy that they are free from blame.and cannot possibly sanction the expression of such opinions since they know otherwise.The position of the negotiations to-day exactly what it was when they were journed last winter.The government's proposition was the same to-day as it was then, and so far as this government was concerned there would be no change.BONE OF CONTENTION.In reply to the question of Col.Prior, the Prime Minister stated that he was not in a position at this moment to give any information with regard to the contention maintained by Canada on the Alaskan boundary question.Without making any definite promise, he was in hope that the negotiations on this point may be laid before parliament during the present session, including the views entertained by the commission and the point upon which they had disagreed.Without revealing any secret he might say that according to the Canadian construction of the treaty of 1825 the boundary line should follow the crests of the mountains nearest the coast passing over bays and creeks and inlets, which are ter- Titorial waters.The American contention, on the other hand, has all slong been that the line should be placed so as to place in American territory the atrip of territory given to Russia under the treaty of 1825, beyond and above all head waters.The differences being such that it was difficult to come to an understanding, an effort was made to reach a settlement by compromise.This was found to be impossible, and a conclusion was accordingly reached that the only thing to be done was to refer the ques tion to arbitration.Briefly, the position aesumed by the Canadian representatives was that the arbitration should Jroceed upon the precise lines of the \u2018enezuelan precedent.All statements that this was coupled with any other conditions were absolutely erroneons.This was the set statement of the case which be bad to make, and he hoped that it would be sufficiently clear to be under stood by everybody.SIR CHARLES TUPPER.Sir Charles Tupper felt sure that the House was obliged to the leader of the government for his explanation: It seemed to him that it was a serious matter to adopt the Venezuelan precedent, as the British Government had agreed in that case to surrender any portion of the Venezuelan territory that could not be shown to have been in the possession of Britain for over fifty years.RAILWAY COMMISSION.Mr.Bostock (Yale and Cariboo) resumed the debate on Mr.Rutherford\u2019s résolution for the sppointment of a board railway commissioners clothed with full powers to enforce the provisions of the Railway Act and to prescribe and enforce such regulations as may be neces eary in the public interest.Sir Charles Tupper came out flat against the commission idea.The government had had enough experience of government ownership of raitways in controlling ite $68,000,000 worth of railways without being asked, as some memhers have suggested to take the $401,000,000 worth of railways in the country.The system as it exists seemed to him satis factory enough.He moved that the debate be adjourned.The Prime Minister repiied that he did not thank the leader of the Opposition for the advice which he claimed to give the government in this matter, and no doubt a reilwsy commission constituted as it is in England would be able to deal #0 advantage with such questions as discrimination in rates and the sidetracking of trains, otc, He noinved out the reductions which have been made in freight rates in the west.The Minister of Railways intimated that a government bill to give effect to the idew of à commission is in course of tion.As the draft, however, je not what je wanted, tbe bill will nob y he ready thie session, owing to lask of time for its preparation.Mr.Davie (Raskstchewam), also eup- ported the reselution.The resolution vas then withdrawn.On Tuesday afternoon, when the Houne met, the Prime Minister gave Sir Charles Tupper his reply in regard to the latter's proposition for the withdrawal of the Redistribution bill until the next session of Parliament.He suid: \u2018My colleagues and myself are bound to give these views every consideration with a view to meeting the wishes of my honorable friend, but I must say that after having given to his suggestion the best attention at our command, we have come to the con: clusior that there 18 no renson really why we should not proceed with the bill at this session.THE DUNKIN ACT.Mr.M.K.Cowan (Nouth Essex) introduced a bill to amend the Canada Temperance act (1864).Under the provi: sions of this statute still in force the repeal of the Dunkiu act, it is generally .known can only take place by open voting, and it is further provided that the voting take place at some central point in the municipality, one day's polling for each four hundred votes.As it was de sired to take proceedings for the repeal of this act in one of the municipalities of Essex, Mr.Cowan explained that his bill was devised to provide for voting by ballot in the ordinary way.SABBATH OBSERVANCE.Mr.Hector McDougall (Cape Breton) struck terror into the hearts of the \u2018Han.sard' reporters by quoting from a Gaelic newspaper, which complained of the running of Sunday trains on the Intercol- onial Railway from Sydney, C.B., and complained against the Sabbath desecration, Mr.Guillet (West Northumberland) asked if it was true that men are compelled to work in the government printing bureau on Sunday.The Prime Minister had never heard that any men are so employed.INLAND REVENUE ACT.\u2018The Minister of Inland Revenue\u2019s bill which is to provide for a rearrangement of the computation of the taxes on \u2018pot\u2019 whiskey, and for a new inland revenue stamp, was put through its third read- 1 ng.SIZE OF APPLE BARRELS.The Minister of Inland Revenue proposed the second reading of his bill to amend the Weighta and Measures act.In committee on that measure, which is designed to amend and regulate the size of apple barrels, he explained that the difference in size was only three cubie inches between the new standard and the old.The idea in to do sway in time with the present style of harrel and to substitute one without any bilge, Considerable opposition was manifested to the bill, and it stands over to allow of members having further time to consider its provisions, Mr.McMullen asked the Minister to include in his bill a provision in the interest of the Canadian egg trade that a dozen of eggs shall weigh à pound and a hall.Bir Henri promised to give this suggestion his consideration.At the suggestion of Bir Charles Tup- per, the second reading of the Drum- mond Counties Railway was postponed.The House then went into committee on the government bill to amend and consolidate the acts relating to the Harbor Commissioners of Qiehec.The measure was put through committee with certain minor amendments in the wording of the clauses.The House rose at 11.55 p.m.À feature of the proceedings of Wed- needa yin the House was the discussion of a proposition for the enforcement.of the alien labor act aginst the partics who are being imported by the Grand Trunk Railway to il the places of the striking section men.The enforcement of the alien labor law was u nat men from ihe United Btates, imported by the Grand Trunk to fill the places of trainmen on trike in Canadas.No action was taken, and the matter was finally dro .MINI: RIAL RESPONSIBILITY.Sir Charles Tupper submitted a resolution which he felt sure would meet with the views of membe-s on both sides in expressing a principle which lay at the very root of the Parliamentary system- the principle of ministerial responsibility.He asked the Premier to accept the motion and allow it to go on record as 8 matter on which all would agree.His resolution wne:\u2014\"The House is of opin- fon that it is required by the Parliamentary system that every branch of the public service should be represented directly or indirectly in the House of Par- linment, and this House is further of the opini>n that the political heads who perform their duty «re themselves solely responsible for every act of administra tion done to the minutest details of official routine.\u2018This House in further of the opinion that the Ministers of the Crown baring entire control over the public departments, they are bound to assume respon.eibility for every official net.\u201cThis House is further of the opinion that ministers of the Crown should not is to be to any smb- The House adjeurmed at 10.45 nom.$ + permi ieputed ordinate (dr the way fa which the busi \\ TL MONTREAL ness of the country in transacted, except tonin, da-casss of personal misconduct, for which the political leaders have the remedy in their own hands, If ministers tind that the permanent officers of the department, do not work well under them, then it is their duty to devise some remedy for this inconvenience; but the responsibility should not be divided, it should be imposed only upon those who are able to answer for themselves in the Houses of Parliament.\u201d Bir Wilfrid Laurier remarked that he had noted with pleasure that whenever Sir Charles had a sound proposition to make he offered it in a very few words.He had no objection to the principle of the resolution, though he could not see Any new reason for ibs passage.Sir Wilfrid, by quoting, made the point that Sir Hibbert Tupper, had, by his attack upon the personal character of Major Walsh, attempted to besmirch the government, which could not in any way be responsible therefor.These charges might have been believed in places where Major Walsh was not known; but elsewhere, and nowhere more thau in Hrook- ville, they bad becn discarded with contempt.Sir Charles Tupper\u2014\"Would you regard every vote cast in Brockville for the Conservative candidate as declaring that the chargos against Major Walsh were true?The Prime Minister\u2014\u2018E consider the vote given in Brockville by Conservatives who left their party on that occasion as a vindication of the character of Major Walsh, snd all the more so since; the honorable gentleman who preferred thess charges on the floor of Parliament had not the couraze to rpeat his ace cusitions in Brockville.While the government was not desirous of shirking responsibility it was notorious that the late government had dune s0 in the Wellington street bridge | scandal, though the worke were under the very eve of the government.In the present resolution was to be found | the indication of the position assumed WEEKLY WITNESS be striotly neutral between the two roads on penalty of dismissal.Mu than this, the general manager of the RC.R.! had reported that the regulation had been enforred vver and over again.The government officiale then, were to remain neutral in the face of this active soliciting of the C.P.R.agents, Kir Charles Tupper and Mr.laggart both took the position that there \u2018was something wrong in the agreement.The neutrality was to be between the CIR.and the G.T.R.The Minister of Railways pointed out that this was the mame thing.Would the leader of the Opposition say that it was all the sanie thing to have a long baul to the G.T.R.connection at Jevia and a short haul to manage the C.P, It.connection at St, John.A circular of January, 1801, openly advised I.C.R.station and ticket agents to divide the traffic por between the C.P.R.and G.T.R., Surely, here was discrimination against the government's own line, THE MONTREAL EXTENSION.Coming down to the question of the propasal for the exteusion of the I.C.N.line to Montreal, Mr.Blair could not ac cept Mr, Huggart's assertion that the move was not a paying one, and showed how the Montreal connection will act as a gateway to provide new buriness such as could not have been had under other circumstanons.The line now reaches the commercial metropolis of the country and can take |, its chance in the growing trafic there.During the last ten years of Coneerva- tive rule, from 1886 to 1806, there had |, been one single vear in which the re eeipts were unusually high and one when they were low.In 1802, the year, | the income wsa $3,005,000, an in 1804, to say, the lo-gest varistion was $125,000 But since then there has been an increase ç of fourteen percent on the Intercolonial mileage, while the year 1890 saw an inti CR SENATOR DANDURAND.\u2018 e ti t t t t by the Liberal party of that day.After some further discussion the resolution was agreed to and the House paseed into committee of supply on the marine estimates, in which some progress was made before the adjournment at 12.20 a.m.MAY BE A CANADIAN.Lieut.Col.Domville, (King's, N.11.), introduced a Lill to amend the Militia act, which is designed to set a: st all doubt as to the competesey of Cacadion officers to command the forces of thia country, and to remove »ll question as to the relative position of the Minister of Militia and the generil olfecr commanding.THE GRAND TRUNK JEASE.The Minister of Itailways *tid on tbe table of the House à r:ap cf the Ure:.d Trenk terminals at Montreal, a statement of all payments cn submdy account to the Drommond County Reilway,and a copy of the agreement made with the Grand Trunk last year, when the House went inte comihittee on the government resolution dociaring tlhe exje- diency of confirming the lease of a per tion of the Grand Trunk Railway line which is to be utilized for Je extension of the Intercolonis! *> Montreel.In opening, the Minister of Railwaye devoted attention to Mr.'lagmart's denuals that the I.C.R.officials, including station and ticket agents east of St.John, were to maîntain strict neutraisey sçainst the Canadian Pacific Vadway.(fr.Heg- gart had denied the existence of wny such understanding.The Minister of Railways then proceeded with bis proof of these ordern, which, he said, had operated to handicap and injure the business prospects of the ment road, as compared with ita chief competitor.The first paper which he cited was a memorandum from the chief engineer of the department to the effect that under this trafic agreement with the C.P.R.for running righte over the LC.R.from Bt.Jokn to Halifax, em- ployess of the government road were to à crease of $800,000 over 1807.While, then, the mileage wuws iucressed by fourtecn percent the business had gone up twes- 1y-eight percent.THE FINANCIAL ASPECT.The receipts for the tem months, to the end of April, this year, on the In- tercolonial Railway reached $3,063,768 and working expenses $3,001,998, or a balance to the good of 962,500.In 1004-05 the deficit was $84,300.This year, them, in addition to paying rental and charges of maintenance, there was an improvement of $150,000 in its general position.The|t increase, too.had come from the one source and that was the extension to Montrest.The more this nt was known sod understood the more it would ap- pesl to the approval of the country, and when a few years have passed there will be a concensus of opinion throughout the country that this is the best railway arrengement ever made by the Government of Canada.The line between St.Rreulie and St.Lambert was ss good ne sny on the continent, running through one of the most productive and wealthy sections of Canada, and in getting a balf interest in that piece of the govera- ment would pick up much business.Mr.Foster\u2014On through trains only.Mr.Blair\u2014On every train that is run.It is as free to the I.C.R.to run its trains as often as it plesses.The I.C.Rie well equipped and con cry passengers and freight cheaply and expeditious lv, and can share in that business.The G.T.R.properties in which the I.C.R.|j bave & share had cost twenty million dollars and who would ask for a station at a lems convenient point in Montreal?Denling with the nancial Mr.Blair intimated that the G.T.R.real connection, Mr.Blair that he is now engaged in an endeavor to arrange with the Canada Atlantic, Railway for a palace coach on the Ot] ih tawa train which will connect with the T.C.R.at Montreal, giving à through service without change from Ottawe to Malifax by the government road.sumed after recess he again dealt with the financial aspect of the case.497,500 which the government is called on to pay for its half interest in the road from Ft.Rosalie to Kt.Lambert wan surely reasonable enough.ply represented five percent on one hall what the line had cost the G.T.R, and although it may be said that the government can borrow money at three percent it will yet be found that the difference of two percent will be more than made up by the increased business.been suggested that the government might have built an independent con- notion of its own.would have been a most unwise proceeding from the experience which the gor- ernment had had with the payment of immenss land damages cleewhere, notahly in the case of the St.Cinrles branch.But in addition to all this the government would cither have to erect another bridge over the Rt.Lawrence, at |, cost of six million dollars, or else pay « proportion on the ten-million-dollar cost of the Victoria Bridge.Calculating of propartionats use, Mr.Rlair found that if the payments were as large as oné-thirteenth as long as the Victoria bridge, it would amount to $70,000 per he one, it was 2,040,000.That ir pes in the present contract is only Montreal and produced a calculation based on an estimate by his department the T.C.R.to Montreal if a nev line were being constructed, to say nothing of the cost of terminalm the Minister of Railways stated that the Canade Atlantic Railway has been negotiating for two vears with the Grand Trunk for the right to use the thirty- real and cntrance to the G.T.R.terminals there on a similar arrangement to that onial Railway.ment of $150,000 à year.not been accepted to date, but the Grand Trunk will take no less, and when the value of this little strip of line in considered, as compared with that over which the government line will pass, it will be seen how favorable is the comparison in favor of the present contract.the minor features of the contraet, Mr.Blair dealt with the payment of one-half of five percent per annum on the cost of small one, he said, for the reason that outlay.dertaken without the government's sanc- of the road and this extension to Montreal, it would be above all else of the terms upon which that extension had been obtained.gart, could not agree with Mr.Blair's view of the Canadian Pacitio Railway's arrangement for running rights over the 1.C.R.from St.John to Halifax.also denied the accuracy of Mr.Blair's calculations and statements as to the financia side of the contract and of the {for the building of a line from St, Lambert to Caughuawaga, and thence by Ls- chine into Montreal.He declared that à bridge could be built for $1,200,000, and for a road from Lachine to Montreal the government line could run free alongside the canal.What was the use of the present 1.C.R.entry to Montreal when there is Bo connection with the cattle Yards ?the C.P.R.and G.T.R.the government could build a double track line to Montreal, owning both the road and terminals, for less money than is being paid the Grand Trunk.The rental of $140,000 capitalized represented over $5,000,100, be built for $2,000,000, leaving $2,400,000 for the Montreal terminals, gart asserted that the government is being charged on a capital of over à hundred million dollars.man in Canada who did pot thank the Benate for its action in 1807 in stopping the Drummond County steal.Position bore on it not only the marks of rascality but of stupidity as well.the stupid man there was no hope.lution was declared carried on division.mons wae yesterday favored with n further explanation in connection with the Alaskan: boundary question, from which je concerned, it is longer pending be- aunouaced When the Minister of Itailwaye re- The It sim.It had But to do this he coat of the privilege upon the basis kat paid on the Niagara bridge, only mnoum.The actusl payment conten.wi Mr.Blair also dealt with the cost of le alternite propositions for reaching hat the £4.300,000 capital represented in he present lease would not even bring A CANADA ATLANTIC MOVE, In the course of his further remarks ight miles of line from Cotcan to Mont.al.roposed in the present Intercol- pl The G.T.R.asks a pay- This offer has Coming down to what he considered he betterments.The matter was a he betterments cannot involve any large Tn any case, they cannot be un- w ion and concurrence.In concluding, Mr.Blair stated that in he time to come if ne was proud of any- hing in connection with his management MR.HAGGART CRITICISES.The ex-Minister of Railways, Mr.Hag- * He .finances generally.Mr.Haggart rted Lieut.Col.McLennan's plan By his plan they would reach his and have connection, too, with both He believed road and bridge could Mr.Hag- There was not a This pro- For After some further discussion the reso- THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY.Ottawa, June 3.\u2014The House of Com- t appears that\u2018so far as the commission ment here had been kept fully in.tions referred te it, not in a ment.hat an oficial statement\u2019 of Canada's : position would : land and would like to be able to make it for a good deal of anxiety now prevailing in some quarters would be relieved.continue he would not he in a position to give out anything to the public.However, au the Yukon boundary had been removed from the questions with which it nad to deal and referred to the res pective governments, liritish and American, therefore, so far as the commission ie concerned the matter is no longer pending before it, and he was not without hope that before the session coneludes the last perhaps many cases forced payment.real the practice was to bring of $400 had been paid.other case of a member of the Press Gsl- Jery in the Jouse of Commons who.four or five years ago, borrowed 73.could not pay, and judgment was given, and to free himself he made a second note for $700, and at present on the original debt of $73 he owed in all $1,806.In England the same questicn had been raised in the House of Commons by Mr.Garrow, and a commission was appointed in 1897, which resulted in a bill, which {had passed the Lords and was now before the Lower Chamber there.The evidence tuken showed that such legislation was necessary.pronounced that not only was usury a plague, but to their knowledge not one citizen had been helped by it.George Lewis had characterized usurers £8 vermin, which should be wiped off the face of the earth.anid it was the worst thing a man could do to get into the hands of these money lenders, as he seldom quoted Sir Geo Hawkins, and said that one of the uvarers examined declared that they had to desl with rogues, who did all in their to get more money out of them.were two ways of providing a remedy for this very serious evil.giving tribunals power to recpem the contracts and fix the rate of interest, and the other was in the interest of commerce, to fix the rate of interest 20 as to kill the usurer.PROVISIONS OF TRE MEASURE.Juxe 6, 1800, However, sition in make auch'a state- le fully appreclated the view be appreciated in Hut no long as the negotistious protocol on the conference might laid on the table.IN THB SENATE.SENATOR DANDURAND'S BILL TO CRUSH USURIOUS J'RACTICES.In the Senate at last Monday after noon\u2019s seasion, Senator Dandursnd moved the second reading of his bill res) usury.that in 187 an act was introduced fixing ting Speaking to the motion, said minimum rete of interest, That bill was the result of the exposure of a case of usury, in which a loan of $280 was made at the rate of five pereent month.vf 1807, fixed the rate ul interest at eight percent, but that wae thught tyrannical and too far-reaching, aimi ration of the usury laws, in the House of Commons, at any rate, it Bir Oliver Mowat, in the at the resto Public opinion as not ripe for such a measure.and Sir Oliver wiped out everything except that the rate of interest should be stated on the face of the instrument, eo as to bring the borrower face to face with his indebtedness.The hope was expressed at the time that this would be sufficient to prevent cases of usury, but it has aot.Usurers in Montreal still drove their trade Frery day was bringing fresh cases of extortion to life.They dent young men, and them forced pey- ment.doors of the court house, for every day they entered, and in the name of the Queen took out summonses to force payment of loans made at the rate of as high as ten percent per month.in the most manner, lent to improvi- The usurer did not stop at the Nor did they ways stop at securing judgment, but in Is Mont- the em- loyer of the debtor to the court house every month and make him swear that he owed his employees nothing.Then the following month the wsurer would seize, and keep on seizing, until the employer grew weary.The usurer did not wait for his prey, but sent out circulars enticing young men to barrow.He read newspaper articles and circulars contai ing their advertisements.The Mon - usurer generally asked for two aigna- tures, as with a maker and an endorser they generally felt safe.calculated the chances of their victime being able to payer swam, an from five to six hundred percent.borrowers were mostly young men, who They shrewdly If one sank the oth- they were sure to make The ere always in stringent circumstances, but who could do without money, as they had to before and after.He knew young men who had been driven to be criminals by these modern Bhylocks.known were guilty of embexsiement dut- ing the last two years and were now in the United States.He knew of a fifth who was in the penitentiary.He quot-d Four young potaries he had case in which on a loan of $90 the sum He cited an- The witnesses were most Bir Mr.Justice Owens t out again.He Tevwis and Mr.Justice There One was by The first clause of the bill fixes the maximum rate of interest which could be charged at 20 percent.that in Montres] some of the Judges were opprre(l to giving more than aix percent on judgments.Judge GIR had stated that he had been compelled der the law to give aa high ne twelve percent per diem, snd characterized the proceedings an a disgrace that should be He voticed fore that body.stopped.If the senators thought twen- The Prime Minister replied to a ques ty percent too high, he had no prejudice tion, tion by Sir Chacles Tupper, that the against reducing it.Clause three of the bill provided that had first held out for o rental of $180,000 formed by the Colonial offee aa to the when it a in proc respont.8 your, but finally eame down to the negotietions with Mr.Chcate.Nothing ing loans the rate of | was government offer of $140,000, would give hitn greater p'sasure than to more than twenty percent, the court A NEW I.C.R.CONNECTION.be able to lay before parliament all the could reopen the whole irsnesction wp As an instanes of the advantages which papers in the cass and the the to the original contract If therd had been the I.C.R.je te obtain from ite Mont: government bad exprersed on the ques renewals, and determine the of in ! \u2019 Jonn 6, 1800, terest to be paid by taking an accoms ween rijes and computing the Firs par and emi.that the lender who has been found to have collected more than twenty percent, shall be compelled to repay such over charges and that judgment shall be enforced even by coercive imprisonment, He had mentioned coercive imprisonment because the money lender might put on the face of the note the nume of an lo- solvent and when the debtor sought to reduce the rate he would find himself ace to face with an insolvent.Clause five applied to negotiable instruments which bad not matured.It provided that the principal of any sum of money due before the passing of the act under any negotiable instrument contract or agreement shall not after the said date, bear a rate of interest greater than twenty percent, and from and alter the mid date mo \u2018rete of interest greater than ten percent shall he recoverable under judgment before nid date at a greater rate than ten percent per annum.Clause six provided that in the case of negotiable instruments maturing after the passing of the act to be lormed after n said date the provis- me of the act shall apply only from .the date of maturity.Clause seven provided thab the act should not affect the banks.VIEWS OF THE SENATORS.The Hon.David Mills said the bill dealt with à very important subject.It was one which had received attention in the United.Kingdom, where the bill had been introduced by Lord James.Bens.tor Dandurand had called his attention to the existence of the usury evil in Montreal, ro that in pressing the bill they were not adopting ideal legislation, but were moving towards the mppression of an existing evil, Senator Dandurand hed shown cause for his bill.Senator Bellerose thought the bill was meceamry.For yesrs it had been well known that there were great abuses in every part of Canada.i NEEDED IN MANTTOBA.Senator Bernier thought the object of the bill was good, but the evil which was intended to be cured by the Lill was general.It had many victims in Manitoba.The rate of twenty percent was too high.Senator Dendurand admittad this when he made the rate after judgment ten percent.He thought eight percent should be the maximum limit.The bill was read a second time and referred to committee, after which the Senate adjourned.JOAN COMPANIES.In the Senate, on Vednesday, à number of bills from ihe Commons were re ceived and advanced a stage, after which the Hoa.David Mills introduced a bill re specting loan companies.This bill, he explained, was much the same es the bill introduced last session, and gives che erpor-infCouncil power to incorpot- \"loan panies by letters patent on the application of five persons.The bill provides that there must be & provision al board of directors, three of whom must be mentioned.It provides that « company may be formed by the amaiga- mation of one or more companies in existence, and in all cases where sufficient has been subscribed, the company shall orgamize and elect or appoint 8 permanent board of directors.It spect: fes the mode in which loan companies may invest, giving them wide latitude, but providing that no one loan company ohall invest in stock of smother loan company.It provides that loan com- ponies may issue preference stock, but if so the stock must be charged ss de bentures, and contains provisions for the amalgamation of \\wo or more loan companies, established under the act, and for en increase or decrease of the capital of the companies, There had, he said, been some improvements suggested since the lust seesion in the bill, and the provin-ial authorities had objected that their rights might be interfered with by the leginla- tion.He bed altered the bill in this connection.It was a proper thing to imcorporate loan companies, as they were allied to the banks on the one nand, snd to trade end commerce on the other.1f the bill became law he thought it wonid Jessen the necessity for application for individual acts of incorporation.Sir Mackenzie Bowell judged from what the minister had said that it wus provided in the bill for the amalgamation of several companies, without their coming to partiament.This, he believed, DREYFUS REVISION.soe cream) ogy fue RATER et Decision of the Court Well Received.The Dreyfus aflsir, says a Puris des patch of Last Tuesday sppesrs to bave lost the power of producing any unusual excitement.The some in the Court of Cassstion hed all the as preta of & solemn religious ceremony, snd the elaborate precautions to prevent the expected riotous demonstrations proved quite unnecessary.Nothing indicated thas anything unusual waa happening in the assembly.The judges in their crimson ermine robss and gold-encireled caps were extremely picturesque.President Maseau and .Ballot-Besupré, with their clean-shaven countenances, resembled fine types of high ecclesiastics.On either side of them were spread out twenty red-robed councillors.The æn- trance of the judges reminded one of a cathedral procession.A group of sum- mer-costumed ladies gave a touch of bright color to the scene.Among the emali audience that could be accommodated were (ieneral Chanvine, former minister of ware, and the mother of Dreyfus, who was dressed in black.M.Bal- lot-Beaupré read his report amid religious silence and in tones of singular cl snd distinctness .The most characteris tie feature of his address was a scrupulous impartiality.His first day's task \u2018was to summarise the ground and to clas sify and explain the documents in his bulky portfolio.His aim appeared to be to let the evidence, wo far as possible, speak for itself.After very plainly recalling the conditions under which the prosecution against Dreyfus was insti- tated in 1804.and dealing with the contradictory evidence of the experts in handwriting and the protest of innocence by the accused, reviewed the judicial history of the case, and said it now rested with the court to pronounce judgment.He upheld the statement that there was sufficient presumption that moat serious errors and doulits existed, and that they justified & revision of the case.He had examined the different cases in which the court could ennul sentence without retrial, and in his opinion the court should only consider « revision of it.A revision, he contended, was imperative.ESTERHAZY'S CONNECTION.M.Bailot-Beaupré then reviewed Major Count Enterhazy's conntction with the case, an already known.After reading M.Mesnard\u2019s defence, which concluded by maintaining that the material evidence of the bordereau and the moral evidence cropping out during the inquiry pointed not to Dreyfus.but Esterhazv, an the culprit.M.Ballot-Beau- pré dealt with the question of motive.He read the palice report furnished by M.Guenée, the detective, all unfavorable to Dreyfus, and reports of the prefecture of police, pointing out that there bad been à confusion of Dreyfus with others of the same name.who had been mixed up with gambling and disreputable female amociation.The latter reports were not produced at the trial in 1804.M.Ballot-Beaupré then pointed out that Dreyfus could not have acted as & traitor from anger or disappointment, as he had the finest prospects of an excel lent military career.On the other hand, Fsterhazy, the reporter alleged, wan a soldier of fortune, slways begging from the money-lenders.Continuing, the reporter read letters written by Esterhazy, abusing France and the French army, these producing a deep impression upon the audience.He referred to a letter written by Esterhazy to Baron Rothschild, dated June 21, 1804, to the effect that if his application for money wera refused, would have no resource but to kill his family and then commit suicide.Buch, said the reporter, was Esterbary\u2019s language on the eve of the date.when the bordereau was \u201cplaced.\u201d The inference to be drawn was that Katerhasy \u2018sought in treason resources neccesary to carry on 8 life of dissipation.At this poiut, with the evident approval of all who listened, M.Ballot-Beaupré quoted from M.Mesnard's statement as follows : \u2018Although justice has been rendered more or less important with regard to Esterhazy by the latter's acquit tal of the charge of being the suthor of tbe bordereau, it is none the less tbe duty of the Supreme Court to restore to liberty an innocent man unjustly oot wap à power claimed by the provinces.demned Ro doubt the government had consider od the question well.The Hom.Duvid Mills asked that the bill to amend the Criminal Code, Mr.Charlton's bill, be allowed to stand, as be expected to introduce a bill to covet that point.\u2018The two bills would be considered together.\u2018The Dowling Divorce bill was read a time.RAILWAY BILLS.Bills resd a third time: Respecting the Pontiac & Pacific Railway Company, respecting the Alberta Irrigation Com- por, respecting the Brandon & South- estern Railway Company, respecting the Céntral Counties Railway Company, sespecting the Ruesell, Dundas & Gren- ville Counties Railway Company, respecting the Cabourg, Northumberland & Pacifie Railway Company.respecting the Lindsay, Bobcaygeon & Pentypool Railway Company, respecting the Compagnie du Chemin de fer du Nord, respecting the Lindsay, Haliburton & Mattaws Railway and respecting the Northern Company, Pacific & Manitoba Railway Company.me CEBSIONDF I8L.ANDS TO GERMANY The Q: Hegrt ; the Corts ot Madriÿ on Friday with the ueunl inf, and in the speech f; the rone none that the Marianne, aud Pelew Idands were sedod to G by the late Spanish Cabinet.ned.- ARREST OF DU PATY DE CLAM.Paris, June 3.\u2014Lieut.-Colonel Du Paty de Clam, seriously implicated by the re- \u2018cent proceedings before the Court of Cassation as the probable instigator of some of the forgeries that have figured in the Dreyfus affair.was placed under arrest at half-past seven last evening, and tsken to the Chercha-Midi military prison.The \u2018Echo de Paris\u2019 this morning says that General Zurlinden, the military governor of Paris, has consented to the pro- vinional release of Col.Picquert, who is in prison on the charge of revesling documents concerning the national defence on the demand of General Marquis De Gallifet.The \u2018Petit Republique\u2019 has a report that LieutCol.Du Paty de Clam, who was arrested and sent to the Cherche- Midi prison last night, has attempted to commit suicide in prison.London, June 2\u2014The Rome correspondent of the 'Deily Mail\u2019 says: \u2018Lieut.- Col.Panissardi, military attache of the Italian Embasey in Paris when us was condemoed.informs me that the Italian Em always knew that Esterbazy wrote the borderesu.\u2019 London, June 3.\u2014The \u2018Daily Chronicle\u2019 says that Major Count Ferdinand Walsin Eater calied at its office late last eveni (Friday) with a confidentisl friend Bnd made the following state ment : Uêhe chiels of the army have dis- ifn.wilt da anna INNOCENT, OR THE AWAKENING OF FRANCE.gracefully abandoned me.My eup Is full, and I shall speak out.Yes (raising his voice and glaring around), it was who wrote the bordereau.I wrote\u201d 1c] upon orders from Sandherr.Esterhazy, the \u2018Chronicle\u2019 says, then proceeded to explain that for months before 1803 moral proofs had been obtained of leakages which were only pos COUNT ESTERHAZY.sible through an officer belonging to the Ministry of War, and it was necessary to catch the guilty pasty by material evi dence.Hence the borderesu.When asked what the chiefs of the French gencral stall would us to this confession, Fsterhazy.shrugging his shoul- dars, disdainfully replied : \u201cThey will lie, as they know how to lie; but I have them tight.1 have proofs that they know the whole thing and share the re sponsitility with me, and 1 will produce the proofs.\u2019 TEXT OF THE VERDICT-M.ZOLA HAPPY.Paris, June 5\u2014The verdiet of the Court of Camation granting a new trisl to Dreyfus, resd by M.Mazeau, preri- dent, was in the following terms: \u2014 The court, after hearing the report of the premier president of the civil chamber, the prosecutor-general's finding, nd the application of Maire M (counsel for Madame Dreyfus), te the effect that revision of judgment can be demanded when new facts are proluced, or unknown documents showing the in: nocence of the condemned, and in view of the prescntation to the court-martial of à secret document besring the words, \u201cLe Canaille de D,\u201d which was evpable of influencing their minds, and which is mot now regarded an applicable to Dreyfus, constitutes a new fact osicu- lated to establish the innocenes of Drey- fun; and seeing that two authenticated letters, written on the identical paper, dated contem with the bor dereau, were discovered in the hanes of Esterhaxy, the writing upon which experts have declared to be the mme as that of the bordereau, which facts were and seeing that the alleged confessions of Dreyfus to Ceptain le Berun-Itenaud are disprored\u2014in view of thos argu- san and \u201cwithout sabmitting chers the Court quashes and annuls the verdict of condemnation of December, 1804, against Alfred Dreyfus, by the first court-martial of the military government of Paris, and sends the accused before = court-martial at Rennes, to be specially appointed to conduct the new trial.\u201cThia judgment is to be printed and transcribed on the docket of the first courtemattial, alongside the decision which is annulled.\u2019 The court then adjourned.DECISION WELL RECEIVED.Paris, June 5.\u2014It is rumored that the government will ask the postponement until Friday of all interpellations in the Chamber of Deputies on the Dreylus case in order to allow the ministry to deliberate on its course of action.Mme.Dreyfus is overjoyed at the Je- cision of the Court of Cassstion.She bas received mesmges of congratulation from all parts of the country and abroad.Of the forty-seven daily newspapers which appear to-day in Paris, only six oppose revision.\u2018The consensus of the .press and conversations with represents- tive men like Ribot, Rouvier, Jules Roche, Hebrard, Waldeck-Rousseau, Tir- wan, tht Duc D'Andiffret, and Pasquier prove that the public mind is prepared for the return to France and re-trial of Dreyfus.Even Deroulède is reported to be open to doubt.Emile Drumont, Lucien Millevoyt, and Henri Rochefort atill continue to launch broadsides of invective agsinet President Loubet and against the \u2018syndicate of Jews and for signers who are cpmpaming the ruin of France.\u2019 An amusing incident is reported by a Paris paper, illustrating the struggle be tween the militarists and anti-militarists.A little boy, five or six years old, ac companied by a nurse maid, wes walking on the Boulevard de Clichy, dressed in the sky-blue uniform of the Hussars.Four dirty street arabs, meeting him cried: \u201cAh, à forger.Are you to be v .Assassin, when shall you be shot.General?\u201d The boy and the nursemaid were res ewed by she police from their tormentors.A more serious incident corurred at where the fo hissed and hooted 8 military 8 Similar disgreesble incidents have occurred at Marwsilles, Grenoble and Arniens.ZOLA PLEASED.London, June 5.\u2014~A representative of the Associated Press sscured a brief interview with M.Emile Zola, who returned yesterday to Paris, snd who wes naturally overjoyed at the outeome of the Dreyfus revimon proceedings, and in the course of the interview said: \u2018I bnew the light wae finally bound to bresk through the mass of falsehood, ealumny and forgery and that Dreyfus would be restored to liberty snd honor and mr- well no longer forced to live in exile\u2019 tend He wan greatly pleased at she prospect | unknown to the cowrt-martiel, snd to establish the lonocence of Dreyfus; of a speedy return to France, and de t clared he felt assured all would acknowledge that bis actions were justified by events.\u2018Armed with the truth,\u2019 said M.Zola, \u2018I knew all must come right.\u2019 M.Zola bas written asking the public prosecutor to send to his residence a notification of the sentence which the Ver- mailles court passed upon him in the libel action growing out of the charges he brought against the officers who cun- ducted the Esterhasy court-martial.RETURN OF DREYFUS.Paris, June 5.\u2014The cabinet council this morning decided that the French pec- ond-claes criiver \u2018Sfax,\u2019 now st Fort de France, Martinique, should proceed immediately and bring Dreyfus from Devil's Island to France.The cruiser expected to armive at Brest about June 26, when Dreyfus will be handed to she wilitary authorities and lodged in the military prison at Rennes.His conviction having been annulled by the united chambers of the Court of Cawa- tion, bis military rank and title are restored to him.He will occupy an officer's cabin on board the 'Sfax\u2019 und will be allowed on deck from one to four o'clock every afternoon.The decree of the court was communicated to Madame Dreyfus at the houme of her father.&he immediately sent the fol- lewing dessatch to ber husband: \u201cThe Court of Cassation proclaims revision, with a new trial by court-martial.Our hearts and thoughts ere with you.Tet us share your immense happiness.Tenderest kimes from all\u2019 The \u2018Figaro\u2019 says that throughout the day congratulatory telegrams have been fi wing in upon Madame Dreyfus, M.Mathieu Dreyfus and Maitre Mornan!, their couneel.Lieut.-Col.Picquart, on being informel of the court's decision, said: There is nothing better to be boped far\u201d Paris, June 5.\u2014The \u2018Matin\u2019 today publishes an interview with Major Count Eaterhazy, in which the latter accuses Lieut.Colonel du Paty de Clam of having, for safety, placed in bis mother-u- law's house, at Brussels, extrsordioary documents, which protect them both.+ erm\u2014\u2014\u2014 DOWNFALL DUE TO WHISKEY.Kai B.C.June 2.\u2014Casimir, the Rawish Indian who murdered Philip Walker, was hanged at 8.06 this morning.Casimir ay made a confession of the crime and attributed his present position to whiskey, and advised his comrades on the reservation to keep away from liquor.Casimir shot Philip Walker, who was standing at his own door at Kamloops, B.C., on Saturday, April 18.Walker died forty minutes later.The shooting was considered tated, the result of an old feud e murderer escaped to the Indian reservation, but returned to the city on the following Wednesday and gave himself up.He was subsequently tried and fousd guilty of wonder, Efforts were made to have the sentence comm but the Gover nar-Generslin-Couneil ded te allow the law to take its course.lloraNGEMEN bé CANADA.Persons Engaged in the Sals or Manufacture of Liquor mo Longer Eligible For Membership The annual meeting of the Grand Black Chapter of the Orsnge Grand Lodge of British North America was opened in Toronto on Tuesday afternoon last.The Worshipfui Grand Master cf the Urand Black Chapter, Major A.J.Armatrong, of St.John, N.B., presided.He culled attention to the Manitoba Behool ques tion, deprecating any breaking of eleo- tion prumises and also remarked thet Her Majesty's representative gover: ror in Newfoundland bad refused te receive a loyal Orange address, v-hich would not be forgotten; neither woud the insult offered them by the same oifi- cial.The agitation to change the cor- onstion oath was severely condemned.Toronto, June 1.\u2014The Urange Urané Lodge of British America closed its am nusl convention last night, to mcet next year at London, Ont.All the busines before the meeting was disposed of eight o'clock in the evening, when journment was made to the Hortieultural Pavilion, where the delegates were ban queted by the City Council.For the place of meeting for next year invitations were received from Narnia London, Winnipez, Charlottetown, P.E.14 Fredericton, N-B., and several othee cities and towns.London seemed to be the most desirable.and after nome discussion the vote to hold the meeting there was made unanimous.The change in sentiment in the Grand Lodge in regard to the temperance ques tion was illustrated by the ing of à resolution, moved and seconded by Bros.Pitts, of Fredericton, N.B., and Schults, of Baldur, Manitoba, that no man em gaged in the sale or manufacture of spirituous liquors shall be eligible for membership in the order.A wam di J followed the introduction of the resolution, which was, however, carried.The standing of present members of the order will not, of course, be affected.Dr.Noble, of Toronto, introduced the following resolution, which was over ruled on a technicality : \u2018That this Grand lodge view.with extreme regret the growth of Homanizing influences in the Episcopalian Church in the Old Land.and more recently in our fair Dominion and the United States, the more wo 28 this Church has alweye been considered as the bulwark of Protestantism, and we sincerely hope that prompt measures will be taken by the Imperial Parliament and , the authorities of the Ch to eradicate | these Jesmitioal practices, in which can | be plainly seen the machinations of The executive committee of the Orange Mutual fund was re-elected as follows :\u2014 Captain Sinclair, Mr.Beattie Nesbitt, Dr.Noble, Toronto, and Major Armstrong, St.John, N.B.Dr.Noble was also re elected medical referee.The following officers were elected, the first five being re-elections : Grand Master, the Hon.(larke Wallace, Wood- bridge, Ont ; D.G.M., Major A.J.Armstrong, St.John.N.B.: Grand Chaplain, the Rev.W.F.Wilson, Hamilton ; grand secretary, Mr.W.M.Lockhart, Al- liston, Ont.; grand treasurer, Mr.W.J.Parkhill, Midland, Ont.: grand lectarer, Mr.F.Sobultz, Baldur, Maa, ; grand director of ceremonien, Mr.R.H.Watson ; deputy grand chaplains, the Rev.Charles E.Perry, Toronto ; the Rev.R.J.Jones.Avening ; the Rev.J.C.Madill, Toronto; the Rev.D.Might, Springhill, N.R.; the Rev.H.C.Dixon, Toronto : the Rev.C.J.Wilson, Toronto ; Dr, Rproale.M.P., Markdale; the Rev.William Walsh, Brampton ; the Rev.W.C.Depreus, Consecon ; the Rev.H.A.Thomas, La- can ; the Rer.B.J.Chambers, Toronto; the Rev.J.J.Haylock, Baldor, Man.; deputy grand lecturers, W.M.Fits gerald (western Ontario).W.J.Wright, of Brockville (eastern Ontario), J.M.Mason, of Montrea! (Quebec).\u2014\u2014\u2014 IN THE PHILIPPINES.Recent telegrama from Manills state that there has been severe fighting om the Island of Mindanao, The principal city on the sland, Zar boango, has been bombarded and buræ ed, and is in ruins.The same despatch reports trouble in Sulu.The Americans have blockaded the port.A British steamer was denied admimion and wa escorted ses-ward by the U.8.gunbost \u2018Castine.\u2019 Washington, D.C., June 1.\u2014Replying to the inquiries of the 8 of War, General Oui telegraphed that \u201che in will of the opinion that 38,000 troops will be necessary for the effective contral of the Philippines\" * Mamils, June 2\u2014I110 a.m\u2014The United States Philippine commission iss night gave one of the mosh brilliant bells Manills has ever seen.It was ome of à series of enterteinments intended to foster friendship between the Amerimes and the natives.Rap Francisco, June 2.\u2014BrigadierGea- eral Charles King, who returned home from Manilla on the transport \u2018Ci Puebla\u2019 because of ifl health, in an inter view says : \u201cThe situstion in the Philippines is most serious people thoee islands will keep up a guarills fire, and there ie 80 telling when hostilities will erase.Whes whipped they retire to tc sisting on practically nethi: no need for « base of suppl necensitats & Jorge lores Pla, them comp à ippines is by no A ? THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS + Mess.Robertson, Lindsay & Co.'s de- pertmental store in St.Thomas, Out, was destroyed by fire vn May 29.Isaac Wilson's barn in Bloomfield, Out, was struck by lighting and consumed on the! same evening, and at Halifax, N.8., fire destroyed the historical residence of Mr.Joba Young, the author of the \u2018Agricola\u2019 letters and the father of Sir William Young Dawson advices of April 20 state that about five thousand men were awaiting the boate to take them out up the niver, Half of them are miners, with from $1,000 to $30,000 each with them, The White Pass & Yukon Railway has ise sued bills of Jading on more than a mil lion dollars of gold that is to come out on one of the first ateumers.About two thousand people at Lake Bennett awaited the first steamers when the let: ter was written.Two lads in Cobourg, Ont., Willie, son of Mr.W.H.Floyd, merchant, and Gordon Wilson, son of ex-Mayor Pich- ard Wilson, druggist, went sailing in a canoe on Tuesday morning last.Mr.William Butler sand Mr.Owen Markey noticed that the boys were in trouble, and started for them in a boat.When the would-be rescurs were within fifty yards of the boys their cance upect, and bath disappeared.Search was at once made for the bodies.Mayor Tectzel, of Hamilton, headed a deputation from that city on Wednes day, to ask the Dominion Government for a subsidy to the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo line between Welland and Drantiord, and running through Hamil ton.The same deputation asked for the enforcentent of the Alien Lator law in Hamilton, where outsiders had been introduced from New York state to take the place of strikers.Sir Wilfrid Laurier replied that the High Joint Com.migion had agreed to suspend the law on both sides of the line; but he would call attention to the recent enforcenwnt of it by de Barry in Buffalo.Mr.Jacob M.Paterson, president of the State Boerd of Quarantine (\u2018ammis- sioners, New York, was found dead at Lis home in Fordham on Wednesday morning.Sir Wilfrid Laurier\u2019s denial as to the position alleged to have been taken hy Canada before the High Joint Commission in demanding fresh territory before yielding to arbitration produced a good effect in London and took the edge off the ruthiess assertions wade by American correspondents®that Canada was in an unreasonable and unworthy position.The acaling steamer \u2018Diana chartered for the relief of Pearys North Poule party, will leave Newfoundland about July 15, expecting to join Peary\u2019s steamer \u2018Windward\u2019 at Whale Sound.Mr.McLeod Stewart is back in Ottawa, from London, and he says that the Montreal, Ottawa & Georgian Bay ship canal will be commenced in August bh?a company that has already subscribed two million dollars, if the needed cn- couragement is given in Canada.He tays the necessary two hundred thous and dollars in order to legally form the company is in Lloyds\u2019 Bank, with instructions to pay it into the Cansdian Bank of Commerce, and the engincers, including Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, Bart.are coming out to complete the surveys of the route.The Quebec Boerd of Trade has tiken action against the Ship Laborers\u2019 Fo- ciety of that port, because of ther tyrannical action toward the steamelup \u2018Lord Iveagh,\u2019 recently at that port.A negro British subject, who resides in Chatham, Ont., was arrested while in Detroit, charged with inciting a white woman, and the evidence in the trial showed that he had been wrongfully az- rested by mistake for someone else.He had been cuffed and beaten by the vo- lice who arrested him, and was confined to bed for some days afterwards.Hix case will, it is said, be represented to the Washington authorities by the British minister.The burglars who broke into the office of Atkinson's Mills at Etechemin, Que, last week, got but twenty dollars.The two-thousand doller , package they were looking for had by accident been left out of the safe and they did not get it, though it lay on top of the safe all time.the A Ex-Mayor Robertson, of St.John, N:B., was in Ottawa on Thursday seeking a subsidy for the proposed dry dock at that city.It is expected to be the laggest in Canada.À convention of delegates from On.tario-boards of trade is expected to meet in Toronto to-day to consider technical education and ite immediate bearing upon trade and commerce.At Trinity University medical faculty convocation on Wednesday, in Toronto, fifty-one young men and six young wu: men were declared doctors of medicit Canadian canned meats have been x vanced in price one percent and the members of the Canadian Canni Packing.ion promise to advance price catraed fruit also.The price of the cans is given &¥ a reason for the advance.Miss O'Neil, a Canadian nur in Lon: England, tried to kill herself by Stocking a oe Hotel Metropole on y.recovery is boped for.Overetudy is said to have been the of her reshness.#wo Gelidans, Czuby and Ouscrak, Winnipeg at eight .They bad murdered, with atrocious cireum- Ÿ LENS FN A on ZEN .©) \u2014> Ness \u2018Woodman, spare that tree, Touch not a single bough ; It sheltered me in youth, And I'll defend it now.\u2019 to rob him of sixty dollars.The awiul, decd was committed at the Galician set: tlement near Stuartburn, Man.Mr.R.C.Smith, the well known Montreal lawyer, haa gone to England, for the Dominion Alilance, to plead its cause in the great Dunkin act case of Duncan against Mathieu, a Sherbrooke liguor-selling druggist, before the Privy Council, The Liverpool, Engiand, Presbytery has sanctioned the «all of the Rev.Dr.Armstrong Black to St.Andrews Church, Toronto, Ont.Dr.Black 14 not expected in Toronto until September, The legislature of Jamaica has voted an appropriation for a West India trade agency at Ottawa to promcte commer cial relations between Canada and Ja- maiea, It was announced by the Gov ernor that negotiations would be opened for the es\u2018ablishment of a line of fast sieamers between Kingston and Halifax, for which a subetantial subsidy has been sssumed by the legislature.A Winnipeg telegram of Thursday says that Messrs.Gault Bros.& Co., of Montreal, ave to open a branch of their Montreal dry goods house in Winnipeg, where they will build a block for their store \u2014 BRITISH AND FOREIGN.The Emperor of China had an audience on Trresday at Pekin with the Emperor of China.and the German Minister was to be given audience in order to decorate His Imperial Majesty with the Grand Croes of the Order of the Dlack Engle, and to present him with two magnificent girandoles, or chandeliers, made in Germany.A curious outcome of the Chinese puzzle is described in a Shanghai despatch to the London * Mail,\u2019 in which Japan shows sympathy with China and hostility to Russia.The British squadron has been ordered to assemble at Wei-Hai- Wei, and the story that that place is Lo be surrendered to Germany by Britain for concessions in Africa, is denied.Mr.Balfour's nephew was defeated in the election for the Routhport division of South-west Lancashire on Tuesday, by Sir George Augustus Pilkington, by 683 votes.M.Deroulède and M.Habert, who have been on trial for trying to excite French soldiers to mutiny, were acquitted of the charge on Wednesday, the court was not attended by a large crowd, and there was not much excitement.A despatch from Odessa, of last Tues day, states that the winter whest crop of Southern Russia ban been destroyed by drought, and that the spring wheat is in danger fram the same cause.\u201cIr.Biyden, a native Liberian etates- man, £ stated by the London Chron icle\u2019s\u2019 Liverpool correspondent to now on his way'to the United States empow- ered to ask for an American protector i ate.Failing to get thin, he is to seek a protectorate from (ireat Britain.Ernest Tersh Hooley, the notorions company promoter, of London, England, whose failure caused eo great a wnma- tion some time ago, has excaped pub lie prosecution for hie iniquity.It is stated that Sir Julian Panncefote, Minister for Great Britain at Washing: ton, will be elevated to the peerage.\u2014_\u2014 UNITED STATES.Seven Chinamen smuggled into the United States from Canada as so much dead freight in boxes, and afterwards conveyed in like manner from Malone, N.Y.to Hudson.are to be sent out of the country.The Chinamen remain in the Chemung county jail at Elmira until they are sent off.A Chicago despatch of Wednesday gives & story Ly Gen.Anderson, commanding the Departments of the Lakes, that he hae ordered Company E, Seventh United States Infantry, to Alaska.The General ie represented as having said that he was in Alaska a year ago, and found the Dominion uniformed police in charge of Ska.guay\u2014that he ordered the officer in command to take his meu across the bord-r immediately, and that the police having retired, the United States troops had since then held the ground.The war steamer \u2018Brooklyn\u2019 struck some submerged obstruction off the Battery.New York, on Tuesday afternoon, while on her way up the North river to fire a salute at General Grant's tomb.She fired it, and then went into the dry dock at Brooklyn for examination and repairs.A hust of Henry George wae unveiled \u201c the People\u2019s Club on Tuesday night it.In course of the Investigation into the loss of the steamer \u2018Starbuck,\u2019 which belonged to the Pacific mail line, and which went ashore on a reef about four months ago, Captain C.C.Brugulere testified that there was no rock on the chart within a mile of where the steamer struck.He was holding the regular course all steamers follow, and the reel must have been of recent voleanic upheaval.Forty persons were hurt on Tuesday afternoon last by a rear-end collision in Chicago between a Harlem race track special and a Forty-eighth street train on the Lake street elevated road.Senator McMillan, of Michigan, had 8 conference with Necretary Gage at Washington last Tuesday, with a view to having a retaliatory law practically pre- hibicing Canadian lumber from being imported into the United Bttes from any part of Canada, Decorstion Day in tbe United States was observed with due solemnity, snd all publie and much private business was mispended all over the country.The Grand Army of the Republic assembled in stroux force, and the ceremonial espe: 1 cially at Arlington cemetery, Washington, D.C., was in every inatance impr-e- sive.At this cemetery President Me- Kinley, the Cabinet members and staff ofiicers of the War Department attended.Rome fifty graves were decorated in Mount Royal and (ote des Neiges cemeteries.in Montreal, and these are not the whole number of United States vet- crans who were Canadians, and who joined the army of the United States during the Southern war.General Gomez, of Cuba, wos very ill last week, and it is feared recent work and wory, along with asthma, will wear him out.The Lincoln Park Board of Chicago has decided to erect a monument to Admiral Dewey, to cost $100,000.The amount is to be raised by subscription.Sioux City, Iowa ; Jefferson, S-D., M l'a eounty, lowa, and Mineola, in the same state.all suffered severely from a tornade which passed over the Jocalities named on Tuesday night.John Robnburg, farmer, of Mincola, had his child killed.The vicinity of Linco'n, Ill, was also visited by a tornado on Thursday, which swept a teritory 130 yards wide by ten miles long, bare and marked wth destruction, though no lives were lost, The death of Mr.Albert Pack, of Detroit, on Wednesday is announrsd.He was heavily interested in the Everett street railway system, which controls the street railways of Montreal, Toronte, London.and some United States cities.He was à mifionnaire.T, head of the Nicaragua canal commission, specifies $118,113,790 as the sum necessary to huild a canal across the isthmus on the lines surveyed.A case of yellow fever wan reported at New Orleans on Wednesday.\u2014_\u2014 BISHOP CLOUTIER.The announcument came from Rome last week that the Rev.Canon F.X.Cloutier has been appointed Bishop of Three Rivers.June 29 has been fixed for the day of consecration.Mgr.Cloutier is not much over fifty years of age.He was ordained in 1872, and has always been connected with the diocene of Three Rivers.He in one of twelve brothers and sisters, all living.Three of the brothers are priests and oven sisters have entered religious or- ers.ee THE REV.DR.CARMAN AND THE PLEBISCITE.Belleville, June 2\u2014Before the roll cal a! yesterday morning's meeting of the Bay of Quinte Conference, and referring directly to the plebiscite Dr.Carman eaid :\u2014-\u2018 There may be room for a variety of ji ents on this question but on the British side, the side of government by majorities, there can be no question of what was the right thing to do, Sweeping, readies], universal and instantaneous bition mag not be expedient, but Apswer Promisor haa grieved os, ait Sn Po majorities seed and majoritios here and west,it would not have been beneath the dignity of the Premier and his government to have looked at both sides of the question, It would be some satisfaction to make temperance power felt at the polls.If we rise above a contemptible party spirit, become so powerful an to put one party out and therefore put another party in, we shall have prohibition (Applause.) _\u2014\u2014\u2014 CASE OF DR.WORKMAN, HEARING BY THE BAY OF QUINTE CONFERENCE SHELVED ON A POINT OF ORDER.Belleville, Ont, June 1.\u2014The case of Dr.Workman was reached yesterday afternoon in the Hay of Quinte Conference by the calling for the report of the committee appointed last year to examine into his teaching regarding Messianic prophecy.Dr.Carman, as presiding officer, asked for the record of last year's resolution appointing the committee, being read.¢ ruled that as the committee was extra-disciplinary, it had no stats as a church court, and therefore the report could not be received by the conference.It was noticeable throughout the discumion that there was warmth of feeling, and Dr.Burwaah, in an able speech, charged the general superintendent, Dr.Carman, with having added to the feeling in the conference and throughout the country by his references to Dr.Workman and his books from the platform.of different conferences.He mid that though Dr.Carman did not mention any name, yet it wan well known to whom he referred.Dr.Carman, though in the chair, declared his intention of speaking always according to his eonvio- tions.The discussion continued for some time, and was animated.Dg Bur wash gave notice of appeal from the ruling of the gemeral superintendent that the committee had no right to bring the matter again before the conference.When the written ruling of the general superintendent was reed as a part of the minutes the conference, hy a vote of 58 to 41, refused to confirm the minutes on the ground that the preamble of historie facts given as a reason for the ruli was not before the conference in the afternoon, and therefore could not be a part of this business.Dr.Carman re fused to change hia ground for ruling.A warm discussion followed, in which the Rev.Dr.Crothers.the Rev.8.J.Shorey, the Rev.W.R.Young, the Rev.N.A.MeDiarmid, Dr.Burwash.the Rev.C.W.Watch, the Res.T.Manning and others took part, and the minutes were finally confirmed by a resolution disclaiming any responsibility for the words of Dr.Car- man given as a reason for his ruling.The Rev.Dr.Workman received a telegram from two prominent Methodists of Toronto, in the following terme :\u2014 \u2018 Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.That ie the most charitable explanation of yenterday®s fiaaco, which multiplies your friends and shames your enemics.\u2019 MARCHAND'S WELCOME.BRILLIAN RECEPTION ACCORDED TO THE FRENCH HERO BY THE COLONIAL MINISTER.Paris, June 1.\u2014The civil and military authorities and a big crowd of people went to the railway station at Lyons at one o'clock, in order to welcome Major Marchand, the African explorer, on his way to Paris from Toulon, and a great concourse begin amembling around the depot here of the Lyons-Poris railway ac an early hour to-day.Members of the League of Patriots arrived in wag- gonettes decorated with garlands and flags.A tremendous shout of \u2018Vive Marchand\u2019 announced the arrival of the popular idol'a train at 0.10 am.A Vie toria was sent by the Minister of Marine, M.» to corvey tlie Major to the Ministry of Marine, where a lunch was given in his honor.The carriage was literally covered with flowers and bad a tri-colored flag nt enc corner, while the coschman's whip was tied with tri-color ribbons.Major Marchand and the representative of the Minister of Marine, Lieut.Darriens, entsced the vehicle, which, on emerging from the roilway station, was greeted with stormn of cheering.All present, with the exception of the officers and nun- comr-issioned officers on the sidewall, uncovered their heads as the explorer jassed.The military men saluted in militery fashion.Delirious enthusiaum marked every step of Marchand's progress along the Boulevard Dideret, to the Henn Quatre bridge.On either step of the curringe stood & policeman, who kept the explor er's frantic admirers from entering the vehicle.Paris, June 3.\u2014Major Marchand was given a brilliant reception by M.Guil- Iain, the Colonial Minister, last night in the Pavilion de Flore.Among the guests were Prince Henri of Orleans, as an ex- ploter; Prince Roland Bonaparte, as a patron of geographical explorations, and three sons of President Carnot, as tre- ditionally interested in all the glories of France, and M.Alfred Mesieres, of the Academy, as bead of the parliamentary committee which carried in the Chamber of Deputies the Marchand medal voto.Not to give Rugland another \u2018pinprick\u2019 the government would only have rd- ed the mission for traversirg Af the Oougo to a point weet of but M.Mexieres insisted on the Mestifying that the mission had from the Atlantic ta the Red Ben, thus including the Nile.A coincidence was that Mr.Delcasye\u2019s Anglo-French convention was presented to the Senate on the ssme date as the Merchand mission received the medal, In a speech at the Military Club on the cocon of his reception on Thursday evening, Major Marchand said: \u201cThe Con- go-Nile expedition did not suffer or inflict any loss, nor did it fire a shot, but it instilled into the natives a love for France, and effected a conquest by humanity and military honor which inspired us with discipline.Without these you can have battalions marshalled, but you will not have an army.An army will save our country.It has no enemies except those who do not or will not understand it\u2019 (Enthusiastic cheers.) Turning to General Zurlinden, Major Marchand said: \u2018Hear you tbe acclamations of the patriotio crowd?I decline to accept them for myself.I pass them all on to you.\u2019 \u2014\u2014 CLARK BABY RECOVERED, FOUND AT SLOATSBURG IN THE POSSESSION OF MRS.JENNIE WILSON.New York, June 1.\u2014Marion Clark, the 21 months\u2019 old infant kidnapped from her parents, Mr.and Mra Arthur Clark, of New York city, on May 21, was yesterday iscovered two miles south of Sloataburg.was found at the farm house of Charles Youmans, and was in the cus tody of Mrs Jennie Wilson, who took the baby to that plsce during the early part of last week, Mre.Wilson was accompanied by her husband, and stated to Mrs.Youmans that she wanted board for the little girl for the summer.As soon as the notices of the abduction reached the neighborhood the people began to suspect that the child was Marion Clark.They felt positive of it, becaues the child wore tbe same clothes as at the time when she was stolen, As soon as Deputy Sheriff William H.Charleston learned of the abduction he.taking his clues from pictures of the child, and the descriptions given him by people who saw her, went to the Youmans farmhouse and found Mrs.Wilson, from whom be demanded the child.Mrs.Wilson at once became indignant, and claimed she knew nothing whatever of the child.Previous to going to the house, the Deputy Sherifl had procured a warrant for the arrest of Mre.Wilson for abduction.He produced the warrant, arrested the woman, and demanded information as to the whereabouts of the child.At th Mrs.Wilson weakened, and made s cof.~ fession.The baby was then produced, and the sheriff took both prisoner and child to Magistrate Herbert at West Haverstraw, and notified the father of the child of her whereabouts.Mr, Clark reached the village in the evening, and at once returned home with his child.On May 10 the Clarks engaged a pew nurse girl.She gave her name as Carrie Jones, and appeared to be a very quiet and unobtrusive young woman, who knew her place and her business, On Sunday afternoon, May 21, the girl left the house.taking the baby in its carriage to Central Park, as usual.She did not return at the usual hour, and the parents, becoming alarmed, instituted a search.The result was the discovery of the empty baby carriage in a deserted portion of the park.The next day the father received a letter written in a dis guised hand, telling him that the baby was safe, not to look for it, and that it would be returned in due time.The letter was signed Three Since that time the police have traced fonumerable el the New York press have published columns daily about the case, and a motion was made in the City Council to grant a reward of $10,000 for the retura of the baby and the arrest or the abductors, Little Rock, Ark.June 3.\u2014George Beauregard Barrow, alias J.A.Wilson, the mun arrested in New York State, charged with kidnapping little Marion Clark, is well known in Little Rock, and the news of his arrest is the topic of the hour.George Harrow belongs to one of the most prominent families in the state.His father, Judge J.C.Barorw, is among the oldest and wealthiest members of the Little Rock bar, and his brother, Mr.John Barrow, is a member of the Arken- sas Legislature, and a prominent attor- ney-at-law.The prisoner is himself a lawyer, having been admitted to the ber in Little Rock four or five years ao He is about 20 years of age and well educated.He has been in many boyish scrapes, and once or twice in serious difficulties.About four years ago he returned, after a long absence, and began the practice of law.He sought admis sion to membership in a local athletic and social club, but was black-balled.A few days later an attempt was made to blow up the club-house with dynemite, and Barrow was arrested charged with the crime, He was acquitted, and went to New York, where he wocured a salaried position with Tammany Hall.His movements since then are not known.MRS.WILSON'S STORY.New York, June 3.\u2014It was reported that the woman Wilson told Detective Herlihy that on the Bunday of the kid- ing she met Carrie Jones in New Yor somewhere on the East Side, and that Carrie Jones told her the child was sick and in nerd of country air, and arked her if she would take the chîd to the country.Mrs Wilson said ie Jones off to pay her well for hdr trouble.She agreed to the propositionf and took charge of the baby.The an t her conaiderable money and she Nile; | the child | -.a + Joxe 6, 1809.COMMERCIAL.| 5 hed sdany ntinalbé ad* pan TTT mm ET LOCAL STOCKS.s, \u2014_\u2014 MARKET STRONG WITH NO SPECIALTY \u2014 At this morning's session of tbe Exchange the market was again strong, and, &s on Friday, though there were a number of advances there was but a siogle decline.Today's advances totalled #1 points The only decline was that of one point in Re- publie.The four principle advances were io.Domiulon Cotton, War Eagle, Montreal Gtrest and the Canadian Bank of Com- meres, MORNING GALES.Cn.Pac.\u2014100 at WY, 78 at 9%, 100 at sou, #0 nt 99%.Com.Cable\u2014T6 at 184%, 95 at 196.| Twin City pfé.\u2014130 at 236.Toronto Ry.\u201425 nt 11744, 25 at 118, 10 at ny.M.8.R.\u201435 at 116.Twin Oity\u20143 at 68, 50 at 01%.=.\u2018War Eagle x-6.\u20141,000 at 287.Montreal-London x-6.-500 at 57, 100 at OT.Doni.Cotton\u201450 at 108%, 50 at 108%, 26 at 108.Republic x-8.\u2014500 at 133, 500 at 133%.Can.Bank of Com.-3 at 153%, 20 at 154%.Bank of Montres! \u20146 at 350%, 35 at 250%.New M.B.R.\u201425 at 344.Cup.Col.Cot.Bonds\u2014§5,000 at 101%, 5,000 at 101%, 500 ad 101%.: Reported for the \u2018Witness by Mr.G.R.Matter, Beaker sad Broker, 1731 Notre Dame BA Buyers, Belles Counter.Now York Punds.338 L1sdis % le {prom se Ww 0 le mo Breritog Cables.116 #4 MONTREAL STOCK REPORT.(Furnished by Macdousell Bros.Brokers) : Moctresl, June 2.Btocks.Canadian Pacific Rail De LG Boots th Com\u201d, MINING EXCHANGE (Reported by A.W.Morris, Mianlog Broker, Rooms 63 and Gi, Canade Life Building.) MORNING SALES.Virtue\u2014600 at 49, 40) at 50%.Golden Ster\u20141,000 at 71%, 1,000 at 71%, 2,000 at 71.Can.Gold Fields\u201418,000 at 6.Repubise 200 at $1.33, 600 at 31.3% Cd lrongides\u20141,000 at 31.10.Big Three\u20141,000 at 19, 1,000 at 19, Montreal and Loudon\u2014108 at 57.AFTERNOON SALES, Big Three\u2014800 at 18, 500 at 18, 60 at 18 Virtue\u20141,000 at 47, 1,000 at #7.600 at $3.83 Mogrison\u2014500 at 16.Golden Btar\u20141,000 ut 73.TORONTO MINING EXCHANGE.Toronto, June 6.\u2014Morning sales: Golden Htar\u2014500 at 73%, at 71%, 800, 000 at 75.Waterloo\u2014800 at Fu 100 at 10.: vggler-1,000, at iy.\u2018onderful\u20141,000 at 6, 500 at 6%.N.Belle\u2014800 at 2.Golden Star\u2014500, 500, 600, GOS, 308, 500 at %, Alice A.\u20141,00 at 7.Virginia\u2014600 at 19.3° ROSSLAND ORE SHIPMENTS.Roseland, B.C., June Ar Le Rol, 1! week; War Eagle, 1,78 ; Iron Mask, 774: Centre Star, 145: total for the week, i total tons for the $1,617, The shipments of ore thia week Lo- tal 8913 tons as against 3,484 tons last weok, LONDON CLOSING PRICES.London, June 5\u2014Closink\u2014Consols, for ter 108 11-16; do, for ths.account, 108 16-16 Canadian PaciRc,1084; Grand Trunk, 9; Kris, 11%; Erie, fret preferred, 38; 11- linols Central, 114%: Northern Pacific pfd., Tr; St.Paui, common.1264; New York Central, Pensylvania.6%; Reading, 104; Union fle, preferred, TO: Atchi- oo, 1%: Louisville, 68%: bar silver, NK; money, 1% percent.The rate of discount 16 the open market for abort bills, 3 to 3 18-16 percent; de., for three months\u2019 bills, 1% to M pereat.NEW TORK BANK STATEMENT.New YT statement Surplus June &\u2014The weekly bank LT GRAIN , : BR Se ue cit Be atendy at Yo w je receipts to-day were: By rail.By canal, T°U1 Wheat , +4.0 -183,007 Cort, uv os 1, 3 478,144 Oats.es 81, MONTREAL BTOCKS IN STORE.\u2018The stocke in store in Montreal are as fol.ows: May #1, J 4 ay 17, June ia.Wheat, bush 54 208.009 434,228 Corn, bush .719 81,847 151,76 Peas, bush ., .059 94,013 343,69 Oats, bush .444,588 B85 1,017,428 Darley, bush .11.688 om 31.396 Rye, bush .3988 3983 61 Buckwheat, bush .64ST som 86.000 Flour, bria .30,501 20,888 18,837 Mial, bris .\u2026 \u2026 14 m 357 FLOUR White wheat has advanced as much as nine cents above the bottom price, Marito- ba mitiors have only goce 5 ten cents per harrel on flour.As whoat in koeping very flimly at the advance, mtliers have decided to make a further advance of thirty to forty cents, 60 bringing the prices Jour and wheat to pearly a parity.Th Th ors, ent ications ure $4.00 for strong apd 34.40 for Manitoba patents.Ontarte grades are also active.\u2018The receipts to-day were 5,850 barrele.Egas.\u2018Though eggs are now a ilttle stronger on the other side, they are still only worth about 12c per dozen.As they are firm hers at lic to 11%4c, no fnreign trade could de donu at a lose of less than vue cent per doson.Some dealers are laying down exgs at these fgures, though it 1s hard to see whore thelr profits are come is.The receipts this morning were 1,691 cases.PROVISIONS.Liverpool uotations show no change.The Chicago hog market is reported strong and a shade higher for light grades; others weak to 2%c lower.We quote choice refined iard, compound, in tubs, at 54a; In wooden palls at Xe: extra pure lard In tubs at 7e; In wooden pails at 7c; heavy Canada short cut mess pork at $16; heavy Canals mess pork.long out, at $15; Gnest quality, extra mild, cur.2 large sine hams, at 10c; small size, al 6 receipts to-day were 458 boxes of bame and 225 barrels of tallow.BUTTER The exsepllonally large make of butter does not scem ty be peculiar to Canada but common to all countries, and the Englisu market ta therefore very well supplied Prices here now range from 16%c to 17c.\u2018The receipts to-day were 1.190 packages.The ahipments of butter from the port of Montreal for the past week were 6,292 packages as against 2,468 for the same week of last year.This makes & total ship ment since the firat of May of 21,027 packages, while for the corresponding period of last year the shipments only amounted to 620 packages.CHEESE.\u2018Thers is another decline fo Liverpool quotations on colored cheese to-dsy of 64 to 48s 6d.While remains steady at (0s.The receipts *o-day were 1N661 boxes.The shbijments of chessa from the port of Montreal for the past wesk amounted to 42,063 boxes as against 36,111 for the corres- ponting week of last year.This makes a total sbipmeat since the first of y of 134,776 bozes, while for the eerrespouslng pericd of last year the shipments were but 51,7@ boxes.CHICAGO MARKETS The following table shows the prices in Chicago to-day, and Juotatioas as col erday:\u2014 Saturday's To-day\u2019s Close.Open.High.Lew.Closes of 7 XX OR TR NO HR how ome he HR \u201c Me Nu de HO à M OLA DY MN NY .\u2026 nn LIT 43 BN LUE 817 (is 85 Kn im iw» July 500 50 506 Bos Se Bept B13 612 617 622 RIS Short « July 467 465 465 48 40 Bent &T ATT AT 4B 4m LIVE STOCK MARKET-\u2014June 1.\u2018There were about 560 bend of butchers\u2019 cattle, $50 calves and 600 sh and lsmbs offered for sale at the East End Abattoir to-day.The Ddutchers were out in full force, but secing the abundant supplies, they were in no hurry to buy uatll prices declined abqut one-quarter of a cent per Ib, from those paid here on Monday.\u2018he decline was xreatest among the common and Jond of cholce steers wera bought by shippers at Bc per i nd the butchers bought ® aumber of the hers ad from 4Ke to Be do.; pretty goof stock sold at trom $c to 4%,c per 1b, and the common and inferior beasts at from 34c to 3c per Ib.A let of six large rough bulls were sold at fige per 1b.Calves were rather plentiful and lower In price, or from $1.50 to $3 each.Fhippers pay 40 per 1b.for good large Sheep.and the others bring from 34c to 4e bar b.vac! ; lambs snld to-day at from 84 to $4 .__ Fat hogo are plentiful, and there has been quite a drop bn prices, which range from $4.50 to $4.65 per 100 Ibs.for straight lots Jyst come off the cars.LIVE STOCK MARKET\u2014June 5 The attendance at the East Bnd Abattoie market to-day was gool, the weather belug fine, and the prices obtained were on the whole considersd satisfactory.There were about 280 fat cattle offered, and mir 5 of other kinds Best butehary brought from Me to 6e, and few were purchased at bie b.; cther grades, gncludiog « few bulis, from 3c to 4kc per Ib.Bheep.ol there wore only sbout 04, and 150 lambs, brought about thy same prices as on lart market day; sheep, do to $ke per b.; lambs from $3 to 34 each.There were about #00 calves om tho market, which sold at from $3.80 to $13 esch for the most part.but soma were so young and small, it was FARMERS MARKET PRICES-Jwne 3 The market was again cvercrowded with farm stuffs and garden truck this forencon and the prices of graen stuf are low enough to suit the moet stingy buyers.large quantities of uats are offered at from 7c to 5c the bag: potatoes are alm plentiful at She to $c the bag; turnips at Ge to 704 do: carrots at \u20ac \u201che barrel ; Greer oa at 3c to suc {he dozen bunch.eu.The fparket was glutted of foe quility, which sold ne t $0 the ng mpared with thess of yeu | fous bunches; rhubarb Nas oie io ex- basket; dressed hogs 6c [0 $30 per 1b.There seems to be a considerabis sur- Plus of young pigs in the country.and they fre oftsred iu cousiderabie numbers, drove- od, at from 76e to $1.30 each; turkeys are $e to lc Der Ib.; ducks at 100 to 12c G0.; fowls at 760 to 90c the pair: spring chickens at 450 to 60c do.; tub butler at î8e to 17e pe ib; print butter at 18\u201c to 26: 40.; (resh sid ogge In baskets usually sell at lio to 18e per dozen, but some ring 23¢; creams at 3Cc the quart.Apples are about fuished until the now crop begin arrive from the Southern States; oranges J3 to 43 the box; lemons nt #1 to $3 do.bananas le to 91.76 the bunch; from 6c to 130 per box cording to quall- ty.The supply of larger, and pri- cea are declining.or 96 to 39.50 per 100 bundles of 18 tbs.raw, $4 to $5 per 100 bundiss If 13 Ibs.MONTREAL TRADE Dub\u2019e Builetin of Baturdsy, June $, will say of Montreal trade: The wexiher conditions have been much more favorable In the Montreal district, since last writing, 8 fair amount of rala having fallen, with ood Srowiog weather prevailing, and the &merai spptarance of the country ls repn e6 to ba much improved.reported in jinmense nu-ubers in some di tricta, and threaten not, only th D! crop seriously, but it Is feared lit much damage to other trees.The advent of warm weather has given oided fillip to tho demand for )ight descr] tiens of dry goods, aot only from city retailers, but alxo from ths country.and the trade in thls line continues of satisfactory character, neas in boots and shoes 1s rather quiet, this baing 5 sort of between season time: several of the larger houses are engaged In the semi-annual stockhtak- 10g, and the demand for.leather is there- tore light, but all values in this latter Hne are very stegdily held.Hides are dearer, mainly due te the war between competing buyers, which hes broken out ogain with Tenewed virulence.Nine cents Is now the Dormal quotation for No.1 beef hides, but In their keenness to get goods some dealers aro exceeding this figure matertally, though more than nine cents in hard to get from tarners.In raw wool ihe movement is vory light one, owing to the very prices prevailing, which milimen say tb: reatly esnnot pay.As suswing the sfre: of the Market, importer reports that he cannot duplicate goods bought a month a 4 at 15 perce, for less than 20 pence now.In general groceries ther a good seasonable distribution, The sugar trouble Is not wholly settled, but majority of the trade are said to be In accord with the refiners, who have conceded a three percent discount, with the quotaifon fo: standard granulated now advanced to $4.59, and $1.7 the lowest in yellows.M>lassos has essed of somewhat\u201d from recent high figures Same small lots of new Japan teas are to hand, jobbing at from 25 to 40 cents.The high prices of American and domestic pig iron have favored the British murkets,and imperters of Scotch tron will be considerably larger than last year.Summeries is now In fair supply at $20.70.and Carnbroe, $17.60.Importations of Iiritish boîler plats and other lines, which have of late been bout freely In the United States, ars also larger.An advance in Canada, und other plates, is not improbable.Linsesd ol! Is cabled nearly 10 shilllogs a ton higher, and has been put up two cents a gallon.General remittances are of & satisfactory character.but the money market continues very firm.Some of the banks have shown a little more disposition to make call loans the last few days, but this is not genersl.MANITOBA WHEAT.\u2018The local market continues to follow the \u201cps and downs of Chicago, but the large buyers and shippers are mors than bait the time out of.the market, not being able to buy freely at the current quotations because of the dificulty of selling for eBlp- ment at « profit.Last week the price of 1 hard in store Fort William closed at \u201cjc, and on Monday 73%c was paid in the morning, but the market strengthened.and Tige was paid in the afternoon.On Tuesday the price was at 74>.On Wednesday, Tilée in the morning, but outside markets closed with a spurt; The was paid in the afternoon.On Thursday, outside markets \u2018were very strong.and scored an advance of 1%e¢ per bushet, and 1 hard sold at 7ée,but sn the afternoon the feeling was weaker, and no buyers could be found.Yesterday the outside markets declined, and in the morning 1 bard sold for Tic in a small \u2018way, but fu the afternooo 76c was tha best price, with few buyers caring to touch It oven at that.No, 2 bard snd 1 northern remain at Je under ! hard, and ?hard, 2 northern and 1 spring at tic under 1 hard.A car or tro of tough 2 hard has been sold at @c to 6c in store, Fort William, tut this wheat is not wanted, shippers are afraid of it.Dried 2 hari at close of the week to worth 8c under 1 hard, and dried 2 northern 8e under 1 hard.\u2014 Winnipeg \u2018Commercial.\u2019 EXPECTED EXCITEMENT.THE MOLASSES BOOM LIKELY TO REVIVE AND A MONOPOLY POSSIBLE.The recent boom in the molasses market ta likely to De revived shortly.The reason wives is that thers fn only about sit thousand puncheon\u2019s of this year's tmMolesses product left in Barbadoes.À Mnctreai firm has had a representative In the Islands for some time and his report is that If the remaining molasses in rbadoes can be purchased at the present slump from sixteen cents Lo fourteen,the market in Canada will be controlled from three points, namely, 8t.John's, Nd., Halifax and Montreal.Two more sailing boats have just left Barba- does for this port, the barque \u2018Stranger.406 ton craft, the largest yet sailed and the schooner \u2018Alert,\u2019 both with cargoes of molasses.LIVERPOOL STOCKE OF BREADITUFFS AND PROVISIONS.Liverpool, June 1.\u2014Followi! are tbe stocks of Dreadstuffs and prévisions in Liverpool heat, \u2018Ib cortifed warebouses, 1,296,000 centals.wm .In certified warehouses, 893,00 oen- Flour, 136.000 sacks.Bacon, 12.000 buzes.Hai 900 29,000 boxes.eens, 29, Dutter, 54,000 packager.NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.New York, Juve §.\u2014Heaviness in tha for- sign market on account uf the politics) disquiet In Prance was refiected at the opening bere in international stocks, and wes accentuted by s point decline in sugar and tubber, and weakness In other securities.\u2018The strength of the iron and steel ntocke, however, caused uptura to prices after the opening.steel and wire leadign with « gain of & point.NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE New York, June b.\u2014 uring June, July, ot and tember, the cotton exchange open at am, on Monday.THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS, CHEESE fodaRPs.++ Brockville, Ont, June 1.\u2014At the cheese beard to-day 0,33 boxes wers Boards), ef which 2,515 were white, balance eciored.Derbyshire bought 175 white end 187 rolor- ed; Lovell & Christmas, $18 white, Davis, M white and 100 colored: W.A.Johnston, M0 white snd 100 colored: Hodgson Uros.4 1-16c was paid for white and Que, June 5.\u2014There was à large meetinæ of thé cherse board on Mat- urday.The president brought up tbe ques- time of tho incorporstion ot tbe board in order to give it ope! status; aoû sAopt- lon of a trade or brand to be lim sess 30id by the board.The object of the lojter ldes Is \"0 hecp tor the board the benefit of t 00d |nipras- rion created by the finy quality of ch sent out by this section, and to differad- tate it from what isa commonly known as \u2018Quebec\u2019 cheese, which term Is applind to ths product of the French counties A re- Solution was passsd authorising the presi dent aud vice-president to arrange for carrying out the suggestiond, Two ereameriea offered 34 parkages of butter, which were not sold, the highest bid being lélge.Thirty-four factories offered 1,611 box of May cheese.Of these 1,2% boxes were sold.Buyers and prices were: James Gibson, for Lovell & Christmas, 228 boxes st 8 1-16c; 161 boxes at $a; Jemes Burnett, 12 boxes at 8c; P.F, Ferguson, for Hodgson Brothers, 42 boxes at & 1-26u; 367 boxes at Be; Grorge W.Drock, $08 boxes at 7 15-16c.Belleville, Ont., June B.\u2014 At & meeting of the cheess board hetd here to-day 1,009 ba.Ol cheese were boarded, stl white.The following were the sales: MGrath, 27 at Blue; Walkin, 100 rt 8%: balance unsold.All May cheese.Londen, Ont., June 2.\u2014 At the Dalry- men\u2019s Exchange here to-day 2,088 boxes of May cheese were boarded.Sales\u20141.% boxes.as follows: 178 at 8c: 134 at Te; 300 at Tipe; 180 at T 15-160 1.68 nabure, Ny June a mener, lots, J es offered, 1,211 sold at Sie; C14 st $c: 86 nt 8 5-16, nw Belleville, Ont, June $.\u2014There was offered here to-day by eighteen factoriss 1,- 670 boxes of white cheese.Sales, 520 bys.at see end & boxes at 8 1-16.Balance sold.Cowansville, Que., June 3.\u2014At the obeess to-day, M factories offered 1511 bxa.of cherse.Two ereamerirs offered 34 tra.of butter.Sixteen and a hall rents was the highest bid on butter; no sales.Two hundred and thirty-eight boxes of cheens sold to J.Gideon for 8 1-18: 181 boxes sold to J.Glbsen for bc: 42 boxes sold to P.P.Ferguson for 8 1.14e; 72 boxes sold to J.Burnett for Be: M8 boxes sold to 1.W.Brock for T 15-160.Tots] sold 1,1 boxes.Adjourned to June 10 at 1 p.m.: Watertown, June 3 \u2014At the cheesy market to-day salen were 5,000 bu at T%e to \"3c: bulk st T8ge.About 1,500 boxes were taken for Montresi.Cornwall, June 6.\u2014The ruling price on the Cornwall cheese boari on Saturdav was 8 cents: 1.213 boxes were Loarded, all Cana- dan white.McGregor got the fleet call.and bought 464 at Sc: McNeil) got 74, and Watliershon 2(3 at the same figure.The TemWDi factories refuted Bc, but at th Junotu: r.Casselman took a hand in t! me and offered 8 1-16c fcr 100 cheeso.the minimum limit for selections Ix 300 br this bid was = considered, but J.A.Mi Rae got his Beotch up and offered § 1.13 for the balances of tha bird, seeuring 256 hoxes.two factories, with 110 boxes, refusing this price.Ormstown, June 2.\u2014Our cheese board met to-day, and therq wes a little improvement In attendance, two new factories registering produce.Farmers\u2019 Friend creatiery wold 70 boxes of butter to D.A.McPherma at M40, and 28 boxes from the Gore Model Creamery wers bid to li%ec.but not sold.For 75 boxes uf white rheere Sc was bid.and 3 of tho boxes changed hands, going to Ilodgson Nrothers.New York.June *\u2014Cheese\u2014The wind-un of the week is very unsatisfactory, with the late arrivals mot in time for shipment (bi week, and quite a few lots lett nver, {| Tuarket is In & wesk position.Though it 1a claimed that some good stock was snid at Sc, 8c was paid for selsetions of cnlored at the closs.Quotations may be called $c for finest colored.and frem Sc dows for faulty goods.On white.nominally 8%e to 84e.Home trade dill, and but flittle doinx: a vsual Saturday market: ¥Xe for small whits or colored.London, Ont, June 3.\u2014At the market held here to-day 2.983 boxes of May cheese were boarded.Sales, 1.580 ns foilows:\u2014175 at The; 1,034 at 7e; 200 at TI: 166 at 7 15-160.TORONTO MARKETS.Toronto, June 2.\u2014The arrivals at the Weatern Cattle marnet this morning were beavy for the closing market of the week, thers being §7 carloads, made up of 1,000 cattle, 250 shesp and ywarings, (0 calves, 3 miich vows, and 1,19 hogs.At the opening trade was not so brisk as vosterday, but the pens were fairly well cleared eut at the close.Frices for good cattle beid up well to the lovel of the week, with the exception of stockers and shippers, which were aguln a little easier.Cows nd helters were In moderate supply, demand good snd valu frm, \u2018There were Do choice heavy cat! In, but good light jnedium weights were in ample supply, and such found an active demand at times.\\ During the past couple of weeks local drovers who Ud: ments of cattle, bave been compiainiag as to the amount of space In the pens at t murket.A large proportion of the sing pens have been partitioned off and made inte two.This, drovers cialm is not satisfactory to them, as they bave to put their stock In two or three yards, whereas oa previous occasions one pen would answer the purpose.Export Cattle\u2014The market was steady.The arrivals, which mere moderate, were about equal to the demasd.#rr es remalned unchanged from vosterday, and feayy exporters were quoted at 34.8 0 35.00 per cwt.Light were steady st $.90 Lo $4.5 per cwt.The quality was good.Butchers\u2019 Cottle\u2014|.ad.ug In this line was active apd prices were steady.(The \\uquiry for choice grades was rood, but medium end common stock were very mlow at essier (ces.Choice selsctiuns were quoted at 80 to 4.65 per ewt.Mediums, which were In ample supply.fetched $4 to $6.25 per cwt,, and common were 8 fittle lower at 93.25 to 33.76 per cwt.Inferior were slow at 9 per cwt.A few choice beavy export bulls fetched steady prires, or (3.60 to 44 per ewt., and a Tight supply né Hght stock buils were saay at $3.50 to $0.75 per cwt.Stockers and Veeders\u2014Canniian stockers ter Buffalo were again & littio caster, belong uoted About 106 per cwt lower, or $3.80 to per cw.A tow lots of good feeders Jound ready sale at $4.40 to $4.08 per ewi.Bhesp and Kambds\u2014Whils there was no excitement or special activity in this branch yet trade was very good spd prices ruled steady.Local killers were all good buyers aud the pems were cleared out without trouble.Prices were à lltile easier for yearlings, which were very alow sale 8! 2 clipped, for export and butchers\u2019 use, were steady at $2.00 Lo 53.75 per cwt, and sheep, with wool, were quoted at 48.76 to $ cwt.Hucke were quiet at $3 to #23 and à few bunches of spring tambe fetched 82.60 to each.Choice veal caives were frm al to $10 por head.Tw Tots of good r are wanted.Hoge\u2014The reesipts in the apnez te-éay BR ware about equal to the Jemsni everything belug cleared out of the pens ty 100m.Prices remained unchanged trom yesterday, aud choice seleviions were quoted at § per ewt.Light wore steady at 61.50 per cut.ond a light supply of thick fats were Arm at J4.78k4 per owt.Sows were quiet at #2 per cwt.AMERICAN CATTLE MARKSTS.New York, June 3.\u2014Bseves\u2014Racelpts, 4.- 0.trade dull; prices weak, except for prime besve; medium to prime stesrs, at 4.7 to 86.00; common nan at $3.15; bulls at 62.0 to $4.40; cows al $2.60 to $4.Exports to-morrow, #0 cattle and 4,094 quarte\u2019s of beef.Calves\u2014Recsipts, 22; tresh stock in fair demand and Ormer; common to choise veals et $4 to 46.25; buttermilks at 33.00.Sheep and lambs\u2014Reeeipts, 6,413, sheep, slow apd common stock lower; prime year- liugs aud chbolcs Irgibs steady; common, snd medium l£e Lo 35e lower; 24 cars of rheep and yearllugs unsnid: pocr Ww prime shes) at 43 10 $4.75: common to choice ; .8744: lambs at 96.50 \u201c joyé\u2014Receipts, 2,516: dol, ane lower: good western hogs sold at 10.East Buffalo.June 8.\u2014Cattie\u2014There were Do fresh raceipts, but a few loads of rom- mon undesirable stockers, which were weak and irregular.Calves were in liberal si p- ply for the demand and soid lowe ta axtra were quotable at $6 to $5.25: rood to choice at #5 [0 to $4; common to good st $4.50 to $5.Hbesp and lumbde\u2014The offerings wire sboul 30 loads; on wrighty but dry ted lamba the market was weak And ir- rerular; choice to extra dry fed lambe were able at $6.1% to 36.25; good to cholre to 32.16: greasy lamba, rholce to extra, a: $8.50 to $6.75; good to choire at $1% to $8: culls at 33.50 to $4: there was 5 wide of values on the green stock: the be sold at about 96.00.opened with about 20 8e to 10c higher basis: ign \u2018wore 10c higher.and heavy oge Sc high heavy were quotable at $3.8: mixed at $3.96; Yorkers at 5190 to §3.- 9; plu st $3.00: roughs st 33.30 to $3.40: extra st $2.70 to $2.90.BRITISH CATTLE MARKETS.Eélnburgb, May 24.\u2014Khe supplies of fat theep were smaller yesterday than lest week.There was a large attendance of purchasers, and a good trade resulted at quite dast week's prices.Fat cattle were a larger supply, and they siso met a good trade, prices being in exposers\u2019 favor.Halt bred hogs sold at 358 to 46s; do., clipped, at 35a to 4s; crosses, 336 to dis, and tups at 46s.Top price of mutton, 8-4 to sd: nec- ondary at 74 to #4 per Ib.Builocks soid st £19 to £22, and rmaller kinds at £5 Lo £13 a head, or Ma to Tia per cwt., live weight.Number.in the market compared | with Jest week Fat eheep, 390; against 430; fat eatile, against 9.Newcastle.May 24.\u2014Yesterday's numbers: Cattle, 1.673; sheep and lamba, 6.247; and calves, 229; pigs, 435.Prices had an up ward tendency.Prime heifers at 38 to Ps 3d: steers at 73 64 to As: second clam at 8a 64 to 76 6d: coarse and Inferinr at Ge 24 to 6s 64.Pork at 3s 9 to 84 94.Lamb at 104 to 1s: mutton at E{d to 9%d; ves! at s4d to 8%4.Salford, May About Lhe same number of cattle yesterday as last week.Trade rather beter.About 1,00 mors sheep ard lambs, which met good demand.slow trade for calves: poor supply of pigs.Quotations -=Cattle, b to 74 per 1b.; zheep, 74 to #4; lambs, to 1044; pigs, 6 Bd to fe Md per 20 Tbe, GUELPH MARKET.Guelph, Ont.June 3.\u2014Flour, $1.83 to 10; red wheat.éêc to 70: spring wheat, to 70c; bran, $14; rhorts, $15; mié- dilogs, $17; barley, 4c to bc: rye, 43: to 10e; peas, 8c to 700; oats, 3c to 3c: hey, 33 to $7: potatoss, per bag, The to So; live hogs, $4.50 to $4.73.sheepskins, ic to Se: hides, $7 to $1.50; butter, lic to lic; egys, 10c to lic; chickens, per peir, 50- to Tic.INGERSOLL MAKET.Ingersn]l, Ont., June 5.- White wheat st #80 to 70c per bushel: red wheat at Sic to 7e per bushel; spring wheat at Ne To 700 per bushel; herley at 45e Sée per bushel; pras at 60c to @c per bush: oats at Ye to le per buabel, corn at déc Z0c per bush: bran at $12 to $15 per tou; shorts gt $14 to 316 per ton; potatoes at ¥e to 31.10 per bag; onions at 60c to Tic per bushel; lve hcgs at $440 to $4.60 per cwt.four st $1.75 to $2 per ewt: ostmes) at 83 to $2.40 Fer ewt.: cornm-al et 22 to $2.50 per cut; Lutter at lic to ile per Ib.: Uo., creamery, at 3¢ to 2c por 1b.; eggs at 20\u20ac to ale per doen; hay, at $0 to $7 per ton; hides ab $7 LONDON PROVISION MARKET.London, Ont, June 3.\u2014Putter sold at from 18e to 12e per pound for fresh roile, and crock at Île to 1A: o3ge, 10e to Jl4e for fresh latd: wbeat, Têtéc to TBc; oats, ic to Uc; pens, élgc to ééc: rye, Mc; corm, to @c; barley, &3c to 50c; hay at 37.30 to 1.50: potatoes wers well supplied at from to $1 per bag; apples, $1.50 to $3.50 per barrel, and 65e tn $1 per baz: dresscd bogs.wel! supplied ard ranged in price from 36 to $0.35.Butchers\u2019 mest fair supply, and active demand: cows at $6.50 to 96; steers snd helfers at $6.60.mutton, at 46 to 97; vial at $6 to 37; lambs at $4 esch.Live $4.0 to 34.50; stags at 2e to I pigs.per pair, $3 to #5: fat at $4.7 to $3.Wool eold at 10 te le for washed, and Se to Se for vawashed OTTAWA MARKETS.Ottawa, June 3.-An abundance of everything with fair prices were the features of this morning's market.A surprising number of ylung pigs were offered.About one fermer in every four or five had some for sale, and as many of them bad over s dozen in a box: the yourg porkers were strongly in evidence.In consequence of the Jarge number offer:d, the price for them this year is not neariy as high as it wae last season.They sold this morning for from #3 to $4 per pair, according to their size.Potstces were very plentiful.Now that the farmers are through with their seeding they ara bringing in their surplus stock, aad the price bas fallen considerably.They sold for from dc to 0c beg.Butter was offered so freely as to simost a drux.Small psfls of butter were particularly plantitul.It sold at the usus! quotatior.except (hat prints were down to te per pour.There wns such ah supply of vegetable (hat the prices showed 8 decline ln almost every article.Some splendid strawberries could be bou at the rate of two bovea for & quarter.Sale prices were as follows Turnipa, 20e per bag.green omions, 10> pat dozen: Deets at 30e to éûc per Lag: 1¢ per gation weter, pail, at 13e to 160 per 1b.; butter, tuba, st butter, print, at 1c to rolls, at ie to isc per pet doien; per ewt.: 8; lamb, front: Se hiud; spring lamb at 73e to $1.8 a quarter; veal at Bn to Tc por Ib.mutton at Be to de tb.: beef at $3 to 98.50 por col.front, 96.88 to 06.40 owt, binds turkeys at 190 to îte Th: gesse at Mc te Mc each: spring chickens st Lic to 6% per peir; chickens, dead, at Tha per pair: chickens, live, at 40e to \u201cBe per palr; has, at 68 tn Q36 por ton: oats at Me to per bushel; barley at bec pee, Dept: buckwheat at dc to de per bushel: wat te 345 por 108, Potatons, Ma tp Me bas.BJRTHDAY HONORS.London, June 3\u2014In addition to thees following have beem imcluded ia the Queen's birthday hemers.No now pouss have been created, alihough in querters usually inspired it had Leen that all events be raised to thet digmity.Neither are there any pew prwy coun- cillore Such baronetcies, nighthoode and orders as have been conferred, have gone largely to the scientific and learned\" professions, and to members of permanent: civil service.Bir John A.Hoyd is the, only Canadisn honorsd.and Mr.James Reanell Rodd, secretary of the British conpulate-general in sre made Knight Commanders of St Mr.Rodd the honor is bestowed as & cent was honored for his services duriag the recent enarchist conference at ome.Mr.Sanderson, the oconsul-gsuernl st New York, a made & Knight Commander of Bt.Michael and St.George, a Captain Jobn 1.Burr, of the Beit second-class cruiser \u2018Intrepid,\u2019 for his resent service at Bluefields, is made o companion of St.Michael and KR.George.,À baronetcy was bestowed upon Professor John Beool Burden-Sandersem, emeritus professor of medicine of Oxford University.\u2019 Order of Knight Commander of the Bath for Mr.W, H.Preece, president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and Professor Michael Foster, professor of physiology at Cambridge University.The order of Companion of 8t.Michael and Et.George for Captain the Hoa.Maurice Bourke, commodore of the Nesth American fisheriea station, in recognition of his services in protecting the fishery interests of Newfoundland.M.Jean De Remke received the Royal Victorian Urder, fourth clase.SIR JOHN A.BOYD.Sir Jobn Alexander Boyd of the High Court of Ontario, upon the honor of knighthood has been conferred by the Queen, was bom on i 23, 1837, in the city of Toronto.His parents were John and Margaret McCsl- lum Boyd.His father was educated in Glasgow, Scotland, and for some time after coming to Canada he taught the school known as Bay Street Academy, Toronto.The subject of this sketch received careful training at the hands of his father, and afterwards attended Upper Canada College and Toronto University.or SIM JOHN A.BOYD.He studied law and practiced as solicitor and barrister from the year 1863 until 1881, when in May of the latter year be received his present appointment.3 elevated to this important office be brought to the discharge of bis duties à clear intellect and a sound understandin; of law and a well-trained judicial mind, \" and he bar attended to bis duties with singular ability end dignity.In re ligion he is a Haptist.He was in 1885 to Mins Elizabeth, daughter of Mr.David Buchan.the late Bursar of Toronto University.rer ADVERTISEMENTS, pu \u2014 a Cam.Pot.GMA The only Binding of WEAR w FIT 11 want a binding thet will out.weer the others twice over, is thees times es rich and bandeome 7 other, and will positively fit becanse has the anly \u201cNatural Curve,\u201d thea you will buy, and at a few cents more than the cheapest, short-lived blading \"SN LI Tee , an back af over yor Let Too M à M.Ce.96 Proust .oy.ws mentioned in vesterday's despatches ths | 7 Julisu Paunesfete, British Am-_ bassador to the United States, would a= Sir Charles Howard Vincent, MP, Michael and Bt.George.In the cu of reward for bis successful mission to Abye-\" sinie in 1897.Sir Charles Howard Vis i FENIAN RAID MEDALS, 1 SARCASM OF A LONDON JOURNAL ON THE MILITARY AUTHORITIES.(London * Truth,\u2019 May 11, 1880.) The various officers and men who have been Jed to expect the Canadian medal are getting somewhat impatient on the subject, and I have received one or two inquiries about it.Considering, however, that it took our military suthori- ties thirty years or so to decide upon iseuing this medal.it seema only reasonable that they should he allowed à few more years to complete the next stage of the operation.One is sorry.of course, for those who may die in the interval, but, after sll, they are a small number compared with those who -died between the date when the medal wes earned and the date when it wea awarded.\u2014\u2014 DIOCESE OF ONTARIO.Kingston, Ont.June 3.\u2014The 8ynod of the Diocese of Ontsrio has bees summoned to meet on June 19.NOTES AND NOTICES.Tingley, Ringgold Co., Jows, May 18th, 1800.Fleming Bros.Union Stock Yards, Chicago, il.Gentlemen, \u20141 wish to my to cattle raisers and feeders that Fleming's Lump Jaw Cure is all O.K.and all that the proprietors claim for it and 1 can heartily recommend it to be just as you represented it to me.It will cure and hae cured for me one of the most persistent and aggravated cases of Lump Jaw I ever saw.[I ean recommend not only the Lump Jaw Cure but Fleming Bros, as gentlemen who make good the warrant they give on the medicine, and they are in every way reliable and worthy of the confidence of the public in general.I am yours truly, (Signed) T.A.Stevenson, Grand View Stock Farm.rer Kotor of births, marriages and deaths must (arari.ably br rudorard with the name and addres of the aver, or otheracioe no notice cam be salen of them Birth notices arc inarrtrd fov 2c.marriage notion Jor $0, death mettre for 25e prepaidy Tha aa.mowncemend of funeral oppesded to doth notice, tie extra; other extension te obituary, auch es short sivteh of 1b, tww cents por word extra, exvept poetry, which {a 50 cents pre ling extra\u2014prepaéd.Aunval sabecritere may Mooe annousorments of birthe, merriapes and deaihe (without cxtendai obitusr y or rvrers) eceurring in their tmmediate families, roe a/ charge, in which can name and address af tu acréters should be given.BIRTHS.CHOQUETTE\u2014At Farnham, on June 2, 1009, to Mr.and Mrs.L.Ré.Choquetts, a daughter.DENT.\u2014At 13 St.Christopher May 32, 1880, the wife of J.u Bean ot a son MeCURDY\u2014At Spring Road, vessenvie on May 19.1999.n sop to Mr.and Mrs.Archis MeCurdy.McEWEN.\u2014~At 23 York street, Westmount, on May 3, 1895, a daughter to Mr.Fie Mrs.Wm.McEwen.SCRIVER\u2014At Hommingtord.June 1.pe the wife of Serivar, City Passenger Agent LC.ee of à Gaughter.2 MARRIED.ANDERSON-PERRY\u2014At the Temes of the bride's uncle, Mr.8.K.Foster, Me- Qui Collegs avers, on June À, 180, by ancan Andersen, M.A.fatber wn the bridegrocm, Duncan P.Anderson, M.D.to Amy Eleanor Robinson ferry, daughter of the late Dr.H.R.Perry, Montreal.1 CAMPBELL\u2014BUGG\u2014At ihe residence of the bride's father, 58 Grenville street, To- Tonto, on June 1, 1898, by the Rev.G.RN.Turk.Emma Vincent, daughter of Chas Bugg.Esq.to James B.Campbell, all of Torunte.3 CROLL\u2014ROBINSON\u2014In St.Paul's Church, Palmerston, Ont.on May 27, 189, >, the Rev.Canon Gribble, rector, Emil tlle, favahter et Wiliam Robinson, Faimerstoa, to Hubert Alexander io DOWLING\u2014CONDON.\u2014At Point Fortune, en June 3, 1800.at the restGemce of John Middietan, Eaq., 3.P., mayor of the municipality, by the Rev.James Fraser, Mr William Dowling to Miss Jane Condea, both of Montreal.; CLOS-* R.\u2014Oo May 24, 1898, at Rorlington, ne LA he R Rev.H.Jackson, Albert À.M.D.to Cara Teshaer, both\u2019 oo Riitouris Cur.Wa.EVANS\u2014SEBB\u2014At St.Paule Church, Byd- enham, que.on May 21, 1858, by the Rev.J.Sykes, T.Harry Évaus, of Trenhoim- ville, to Lilian Jape, daughter of Thos.© Jedd, Kingery.3 EWING-DRIVER\u2014At fhe residence of the bride's parents, New Loudon, Township of Chyeland, Province Juve 1.189.by the Rav.Richmond, Que, Anthony Frwéden, Qus., to jo.ter of Mr, Aaron Driver.GREGOR\u2014UIBBENS\u2014At Cambridge, Masson June 1, 1889, by the Rev.Edward L.Atkinson, Leigh Richmond Gregor of Mo 61} Cotiege, Montreal, and Margaret Gid- bere, dsugbter of the late Deniel Lewls ot Quebec.on Dr.Kolioek, 3 J.Ewing, Driver, dae; Giddens.* ORVENOR-GAUL.\u2014 At Sacred Heart ° Sus.pew or ain UT n, jus, of Booties \"au new York, to Miss Xuphemis cest, of Ottawa, doughtor of Mr.We.Gaul, ent Pristing Bureau.MIRE\u2014CHAMBERS \u2014 At Churet, nent 0 on June Ca rte Rev .Moore, Clara Caroline, only Sign of Joha Cha Com mimwner ot Parka, Torosts, to T.Fos ter Hive.3 MARTIN\u2014JORDAN-\u2014OS Tharedey, June 1 1800, Jeck Martin, of Montreal of Perth, Ont ts Mes 1 g - ne SEERA ES git A Mebrien, M.D., SE | RE MeCULLOH\u2014BNLL~\u2014A she residence ot Therns Ball, 48 Grove avenue Lu on oa June 1, 1, by Canon Sween) D.D.Miss Elranor Bell, to Robert MeCulloh, of New York city.RIBERTSON-MOONREY On Mar 2, nt the residence of the bride's parent's, Russcll, Manitoba, by the Rev.Mr.McKay, Mr.D.Clarke Robertson, te Mise Berthe B.Mooney, both of Vankleek Mill, Ontario.SHARKEY\u2014RENAUD\u2014At the home dride\u2019s parents, Abbotsford, 2 Mer 20, 1888, Le, by che Rev.Me.arkey, ot Gran HS Misa Devinn, daughter of Mr.Pavia Renaud.WEIGHTMAN\u2014BICKERSTAFF.\u2014 On some 1, 1098,at 8.Gabriel Presbyterian Church, by the Rev.Dr.Campbell.Agnes EK.Dick- erstaft to George D.Weightman.' DIED.BENNETT\u2014-At Midland, 'n May 31.189, Major James Bennett, of the Inland Rev- erus Departuient, Toronto.3 BILLING.\u2014At Hedloyville, Qaabes weiiros Harold, infant son of Henry H.and Alice Billing.aged oue year and aix days.3 BOUSFIELD\u2014At tbe Rectory.Billings Bridge, Ont, on May 31, 189, Evelyn May, eldest dsughtor of George and Age nes Madeleine Bousfleld, aged 36 years ¢ months.3 CARTER\u2014On March 21, 1899, at his residence, uear Simcoe, Ont.W.M.Carter, teacher, aged 57 years and $ montha.à CUEMFNTS \u2014On June ?1909.at '76 Con.uregation street, Muriel Ruth, daugbter of Mr H.Clements, aged J years and à montha.Toronto papers please copy.3 CLEMENTS \u2014On June 4, 1385, Leslle Herbert, beloved son of H.Clements, sged 14 months.Toronto papers please copy.COLEMAN.\u2014At Quebec, on May 28, 359, Michael Coleman, seed 78 years.a native of Kiibarry, Waterford, Ireland, and for many years a resident of Quebec.He waa the father of M.W.Coleman, grocer.CRAMPTON \u2014On May 34.1809, st Olen Ridge, N.J., aged 61 years, Henry Edward Crampton, M.I)., of New York.son-in-law ot the Rev.P.H.Marling, D.D.D | DAVISON.\u2014In this city, on May 30, 1006.Catherine McEachern, widow of the late James Dsvison, aged 82 yoars uyd six months.DUNNING.\u2014In this city, on May 30, 1880, Willie Stanley (Tominy), only son of Mr.and Mrs.H.8.Dunning, aged 3 yesrs, 1 month aud 15 days.ELLIOT\u2014 At Beauharnoié, on June > 19, John Kennedy Elliot, Q.C., aged 65.ELLIS.\u2014On June 8, 1899, at his father's residence, No.10 Evans street, of pneumonia, John T.eldest son of Richard Elita, of this city, formeriy of Quebec.favannah and Darien Ga, U.8., papers please copy.FLETT\u2014At 123 [naballe street, Toronts, on June 1, 1880, Rboda Mary, wife of John Flett, and only daughter of the late Joba Fotbes, surgson, R.N.GOODFELLOW-Suddealy, nt J Que.on Sune 2, 1890.WiiMam.deariy beloved son of Wm and Charlotte Goodtel- low, aged 30 years and ?months.Kingston (Unt.) papers please copy.5 HEBERT At Quebec.on May 9, 1288, + .C.Hebert, N.P., aged 87 years.ERTS A \u2018Waodside, po xo.on May 31, 100.Jean M.Adams, wife o Charles W.Jefferys, of i New York \u201cHerald.\u201d and daughter of Dr.Edward Adame, 57 Yonge street.Toronto.3 LEWIS.\u2014On lune 4.1999, at 130 Irvine ave, Westmount, Reginatd A, son nf Jeuac urd Elizabeth Lewis, months.MACKAY\u2014At bia residence.38 Metcait at.Toronto, on Jups 1.18%.the Rev.Rat.Dowie Mackay, in his find year.3 MACLEAN\u2014O8 June 2, 108, David E.Mac- Lean, aged \u20ac years, à native of Fifeshire, Scotland.Kirkealdy and Toronto papers please copy.3 McISAAC.\u2014On May 28, 1890, at 108% First avenue, Ottawa, Donald Melsasc, tn She Th year of his age.M¢LEAN.\u2014Drowned, ip the Spanish river.Nairn Centre, Ont.où May 28.180.Wiltiam, eldest sco of H.\"y McLean.hotel -keeper.McLEOD\u2014On June 2, 1999, gt her son's re.aldence.55 Clandeboye avenue, West- mount, In her Ath year, Agnes Cameron, - rellet of Lhe late Alexander Mcl.eod, of Kirkhitl, Ont., snd mother of Norman, Kenneth apd Alesander McLeod, of this ty.McMAHON.~At DeSalaberry, on May 22 189, Samuel McMahon, aged oixty-five years and two months.Asleep In Jesus, blessed sleep.in MILLER.\u2014John Stuart Miller, of Her Ma- Jesty's Customs, aged 64, accidentally drowned, on Jute 1, 1000.MiLLOY.~In this city, oa June 1, Ÿ hia 8th year, Alexander Milloy, late tt fie mausger of the Richellsu and Ontario Kavigatioa Co.MESDLE AE Prescott, Ont.en Jupe 1, 1889.Mary Findisy, beloved wife of Edward Mundie in her &th year.3 OSWALD\u2014At London, England, after a short {liness, Wiliam R.Oswald, aged 51.RANSOM.\u2014In this city, on June £ 1889.at 30 Wood avenue, Westmount, Annie Gertrude eldest daughter of Howard Ransom, aged 26 years and 9 months.ROBERTSON.\u2014At Scotts Concession, Thos.Robertson, #1 years and oro months, a native of Mathven, Scotland.ADVERTISEMENTS.Torturing Disfiguring Humors Itching, Burning, and Scaly Eruptions of the Skin and Scalp with Loss of Hair CURED BY CUTICURA.simple, direct, The treatment ment le simple, ot sgreesbie aad $0Onoum! daprad feta ha.val as adults of ovary aS.the affected parts with Hor Wa wd Coron jeanse the greats and soften ckemed aged 2 yours and \u20ac es | Mani Department! COLONIAL HOUSE, ____ Phillips Square and Union Avenue.THE MONTREAL WEEKLY WITNESS.a JUST RECEIVED \u2014> LADIES\u2019 SUMMER SUITS.Ladies\u2019 White and Colored Pique and and Crash Suita, in the latest styles.Ladies\u2019 Muslin Wrappers, in Ladies\u2019 White and do 1 shades \u2018olored Piques, Crash and Fancy.LINEN DRESS SKIRTS.One Special Line of Ladies\u2019 White Pique Skirts at 75c.EXTRA VALUE, LADIES\u2019 MUSLIN COSTUMES.Ladies\u2019 Tlandsome Muslln Costames in delicate shades and new designs Wa are ofvring some very bandsome styles in Ladies\u2019 Musliu Costumes at $12 aud $15 BATHING SUITS.Our stock of Ladies\u2019, Misses\u2019 and Children\u2019s Ratbing Suite ie now most complete in the intest styles in Berges and Mohair, Ladies\u2019 Bicycle Suits and Skirts.All Ladies\u2019 Bicycle Suits and Skirts 80 PERCENT OFF OR HALF PRICE.amy} ! o 1.Now Offering in the SILK DEPARTMENT ial Job Lie of Lright and preity Striped Taffeta Bilks at extraor- REDUCTIONS, \u20148triped Taffeta, regular price, $1, now selling at No.$.\u20148triped Teflrta, regular price $1.95, now selling at fay ls yard No.8.\u2014 Btriped Taffeta, regular price, $1.50, now selling at $1 Per Toni leus $ percent for cash.The above are Rare Values.MAIL ORDERS CAREFULLY FILLED.SAMPLES SENT AND EVERY INFORMATION GIVEN.HEINEY MORGAN & OO.MONTREAL.4040 \u2014 A New \u201cWitness \u2019 Premium.a+\u201d Our premiums are described honestly.If they be not considered to descriptions they \u2018Be MAPLE LEAF BLOUSE SETS.§° of JL Includin, of Maple Leef Cuff Links, le Leaf Front Studs, ons Plain Collar Stud.\u2014 Very patriotic and very duinty.Wade entirely of Sieritng Silver, decorated with Pure Gold.A lady who has seen these sets gave her opinion that they would drivg #5 fn tbe city stores.However, with our sps- : cial arrangements we can afford to give them to \u201cWitarss\u2019 Sudscribers who wiil send us two etrictly new \u2018Weekly® subscriptions at $1.00 each: or ope strictly dew \u2018Daily subscription at $3.00; or they will be sent post.peld and registered for $1.50.Cash with order.correspond wita msy be promMptiy Peturned and mocez will be refunded.JOHN DOUGALL & SON, Publishers, Montreal.FARM ER SreséchageiDisiaror JE Branch Office, 134 Princess street, Winalpeg.THE ART METROPOLE, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Tv yeu want Tam SPECIAL CUT PRICE.In order to Introduce these Harrows we will name you an interesting price, which will have no bearing on regular selling price.JOHN WATSON, Rix Cs, Limited, Ayr, Ontarie, Casads.ASLINITED.} 181 and 133 Yonge Street, Toronto.Is the Leading House in Canada for Artists\u2019 Materials, Designers and, Decorators\u2019 Supplies Mathematical Instruments, and Draughtsmen's Materials OF EVERY BERCRIFTION., Your Enquiries Bolicited.Maation this paper.ONTARIO BUSINESS COLLECE.Mont widel ed In Ame year; 22 years oder present Principals.Seni for Catalogue, Address ROBINSON & JOHNSON, F.C A.Belleville, Ontaria.SALTER.\u2014At Outremont, ou OOTH.\u2014At Port Col \u201d, 2 Aon Buse\u2019 pes A.Rooth, late col Juse pre, wide od 3 hy Wiiliam R.Balter, la the Toh your of his age.tor at ATONE\u2014At mount, in Ber Mth 214 Meccalf avenua, year, Mary, wite of 8.IL Stone.WALLACE AL Salmon Falls, Mifsabetd las, gh Dug! James Wi be; & n the eighty 5 STEPHENSON.\u2014At Chatham, Outarie, em May 35, 1000, in hor $5th year, Deorgioe: beloved wite of Rufus - customs, Weet- beloved wb oda il of Winder, PQ.\u2014 Nu UNIVERSITY Students th out the land ft hele heiraay moots b7 \u201ca -ARGETHAND COURSE.tb situation thi aka month stl le your Frot Months Will doit.Thocoste 5005 Enter any Uma No Vacations Central Business College, \u2018Toronto, v, M sur, Principat NIMMO wo HARRISON Business and Shorthand College.Corer of Yonge and Coliegs sts, Torento, Thorough, practical, and up-to-date courses.Commercial Snorthasd and Typewritii English and Civil Service.Open entire year; day and evening.Write fof free prospectus Information.and information.St.Andrew's College, + Chostnut Park,\u2019 TORONTO.High Class Residential Rebool bays, under an auspices, will fe ed in Toronto lo mbes next.\u2018Chestnut Park,\u2019 the residence of the late air Davia Macpherson, hes besu secured as the home of the school.The bighest standard 4 excellence bots a8 10 ciase-Toom work asd Dore Juriuence will be aimed at: only academic 4 protessiona ere empleyed.For Prospectus appl.ne Goorga Grues, D.B., Prinoigal.A WANTED: ap ob eg, GOOD LANDS, TELE InNorthern Ontario A splendid township has been opened for settiement in the French River Valley, between Lake Nipissing and Georgian Bay.Northern Ontario, Climate and soil are most excelient.Intending settlers should look into this.L.O.Armstrong, Colonization agent, Canadian Pacific Railway, Montreal.HANDY TOOLS.= HOMEOPATHY.A full wuppiy of Mofloines aoû Books; also Humphreys Homeopathie Speci: fies.A large stock always on hand.SHERT WAX For Making Fruit and Flowers.large assortment in Sock.including Moulés.Cutters, Colors, dc.MINERAL WATERS.Bethesda, Poland, Veh river Hun- yadt Jance, Apeats and all the isading waters always in stock.Country orders promptly flied.J.A.HARTE, Druggist, 17% Notre Name street, Montreal REFORD AGENCIES.BONALBGON LINE.i Hil Bhan «BUEZew BETS Onirns, Ean Ts FE each \"ne rd aot nen LEER Lie ol 88.LORD ANTRINM.Fo ke of Lading a, avers he or agen 80a amtiodi &.FEES aire THE ROBERT REFORV \u201ceo.le 13 and 3 Bt.Sacrament Street, UROPE.EUROPE.EUROPE TICKETS BY ALL pm ALLAN, DOMINION sud BRA @UIOR, ANCUUI HAN AMERICAN NMANS WHITE ST, VON Cuve NETHERLANDS Brn Alote rons Tibi, AvsTRALL, CAPETUWN, sud oll parts of looki AE us parore co ing by meets hy agiles A BAFA its 18e J It Pays to Care for Your Horse! NATIONAL CALL CURE le wonuer-working in îte effects, No other pire ration in the world can equal it.It is the cnly speedy sud sure cure for Galls, Sore Back and Shoulders, Corns, Scratches, Mud Scalds, etc.Galt Cure dots Its Oecd Werk while the Morse ie Working.For Bare Tents on cows it gives immediate relief and ceftain curd our Special Offer mrcetpt of 36 cents, Ve will send a full nn box Nations] Gall Cure asf a ot e Cryval Rosettes.= inw ration above.which are setalled at #0 cents Sirs Money refunded It not foul tala Nations] Gall Cure le for sale by mine ro I Tirave te name snd poy plainly snd esclose sévt.ENGLISH EMBROCATION \"co, agar role A TEE EERE \"0 oui Css ES, Jung 6, 1809 FARMERS, EXCHANGE, For Sale and Want Advertising, ONE CENT A WORD.For the beneñt of the subscribers of the 'Witossa,\u201d many of whom bave dune the Tear, something to vil ee exchange, or some want to be flied, we bave des # take atvertisements ot this class, ses this page, and under thin beading.at .Par fow \u201crate of one cemt a word ertion.is fu Jus one-third the regu! He The \u2018Weekly Witaess' reaches 25,000 FAMILIES whose wasts sre many aod and whe Bave he wherewithal to satisfy them did they rd know where to find the things ¢ jher The address must be coun ot the advertisement, and each fnitter oo.Cash must Sooompany rach order, and advertioments must be received not a the paper publ i A being used, thus making a find that n advertisement 3n thin department will 20RN DOUGALE à BOY, must have aôdress où.as we cshnot for ward replies sent to this office.Ton \"Fa armers* Exchange sâvertisemeuts will be condensed, no oe lentes (res nofireahble as a large on a bsrribers to tha \"Wiines' wit rors a Ll investment, and on] Fr Subscrd bore may anil themselves > it dore, Publishers of the \u2018Wines,\u2019 Montreal 4 lh FOR SALE, 00 OHIO IMPROVED Chanter White and Tamworth Spring Pigs of tru bacon type: largest prise winniog in Canada: wo1 grand aweepatates nt To- vonto, Montreal and Ottawa, eight years io succession for best berd: furnish pales mot akin; We pay oxpros charges to your statior,and guaranties safe arrival, Stock for exhibition pui 5 à speclalty.Write for prices.H.GEORGE & BONB,Cram) a ton, Ont.A BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS (Esclusive- ly): Eggs for batching at $3.00 per 15.3 settings.$2.00: per 100 $4.00.From choles breeding pen of high eroring Imported birds, $3.00 per 15; 1 settings $3.00.Al birds have free range and fertile egge guarsntesd.Two fine yearling cocks and some breeding hens for sale.(Miss) P.J.CALDWELL, Constante.Huron, Ont.@ er FARMS AND OTHER PROPERTY FOR SALE CALIFORNIA \u2014 À RE\"TRED BRITISH army officer, former reniden* of Toroatn, now residing fm tbe most Lc hy snd profitable Trott groring county (a Cali-, fornia, has sever] fully \\mproved orsage\u201d and peach orchards for sale.stamped coveicps to CAPTAIN, Pox So \u201cburn, Placer County, California, for information.TEACHERS AND STUDENTS Wa NTED, 10 avery oc roi ul aa, ty We \u2018ruseme\u201d and \u2018Northern Messenger.\u2019 for ssmple sad grecs (hddrese JOHN DOU a BON, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.Montreal WANTED, GENERAL AN]?LOCAL Ages in unrepresented oountise te ham eile quick selling family medica: exc) erTitory: no competition wif Apps at once.odio oo Ce.Montreal.WANTRD, AGENTS TO BELL OUR Super- for quality of Bliverware.iii) us agents guarantssû to exceed those rellable competitor.Writs for lars.Eclipses Éliverware Co.Box ronto, \u2018THR SABBATH AND IT8 CHANGES sent postpaid to any address on receipt of tem cents, by tbe author, John MoKie, i Jackson avenue, Vancouver, B.C.To introduce Dr.Weetons Improved Piok Toole Pls for making hiool, i Tan po male Peakneases, liver and kidnay.wearrsl aies Tae: we ey Fac watoh, les or Genta, Pi ris b) > Ume-keepar, warren lie are B50 cents per box, po fy - ite for particu, tan THE DR, Fain rl nn 1.Torocte Out = ORE .Le Cm THE SEAMETRESS By aan oh pete see] attachments, and factory The Balley-Donalésen Ce, 186.Peter nt, Meoutrent, ème 100.each ; octing Silver \u2018Watch forall.Ings dox Doylias in latest ard prettiont mila sight.Writeand wesend thom postpald lishem, ram one woney or.ward your free.Ungold Aoylies VEN Bo vous NAME nasty ons es.t t and pri do | ml 1% DERE 13°00\" Kuswtearh § TAR WEEKLY WITNESS b ad md Mebod 64 the * Wikcon Building, (he trees of Orig énû St Prier atrecie lé tbe aly of Dougafiot Montrenk."]