The Montreal herald, 14 décembre 1891, lundi 14 décembre 1891

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SAFETY ELEVATORS Operated by Eand and Steam Power, Water & Eketrieity 133 Xing Strwst, Montreale \u2018Toreate Office, 74 York Street, H.D.SIMMONS, AGENT.TOMS Makers of )e £tlontrecal I Roos | MONTRE ROOFINGCo .ER OF LATOUR and BUSBY Lane, Folephones, Bell 130, Federal 1609.METAL & GRAVEL ROOFERS Galvanized Iron and Copper cornisss aud Skylights P.O.Box 909.K1GHTY FOURTH YEAL N THE NEWS.Fair and cooler weather.Nineteen lady postuiants under the charge 0 a mother superior, have lefs London for Houston, Tex.A satisfactory test of the new navy gmokeless powder was made at Iadian Head, Md., yesterday.An officer of the Melbourne, Australia, Building Society has embezzlad $250,000 of the funds of the society.Two masked men robbed the Wells Gargo Express agent of $100 Thursday night at Shingle Springs, Cal.Mr.and Mra.A.J.Crwles celebrate their sixty-seventh wedding anniversary at Beloit, Wis., Wednesday.The Hawley mansion at Westbory, Mass., one of the oldes: structures ia th State, wes burned Toursday night.Another lurious storm is raving over the British Isles, and great damage to skipping and farmers is reported.The express agent at Linwood, Ark., was robbed of packages containing $70 by a band of negroes Thursday night.William.J.Gibbons was found gaiity Tes'erday in his trial for having burned the Dupont buildings in Wilmington, Del.A New York syndicate has decided to erect a system of beet sagar factories throughout Nebraska and neighboring States.The stock of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad Comoany has been increased from $6,000,000 to $12,000,000.Advices from Singapbre announce the loss of a large number of Chinese vessels with their crews during a eevere storm at Hong Kong.John L.Sullivan, at Los Angeles, has indignantly denied that he will try Dr, Keeley\u2019s bichloride of gold treatment for drunkenness.Chancellor Von Caprivi told the Reichstag yesterday that it ought not to doubt the good faith of the United States in exercising checks upon the export of dis- ecsed pork.The Maryland Court of Appeals have decided that the trust created by the will of Arunah B.Abell continues uutil the death of the last surviving daughter of the testator.The Parnellite members of Parliament have caused Mr.Justin McCarthy to be served with a writ in a suit that seeks for bis remaqval ee one of thy crusteez af the Paris fund.The Governor of Rio Janiero hat declined to resign on demand of the Braz.|- ian Government, and the province bas been placed under martial law.Much uneasiness is felt, The Toronto Ratepayers\u2019 Association met to select municipal candidates for 1892.A racket occurred which broke up the meeting.The association is now dead to the public.Bartram, the man supposed to be connected with the Hyslop murder in An- caster,was sentenced Saturday in Brant.ford to 23 months in the Central Prison for cattle stealing.U.8.Attorney-General Miller propises to institute a euit against one of th: New England railroads to test tke right of the company under the inter-State law to issue free passes.There is an increase of 40,000 bales in the hop crop of the United States this year,aë compared with that of 1890.Prices average 164c.per pound this year, against 30c.last year.W.H.Pennington, the tragedian, who was one of the immortalized \u201cSix Hundred\u201d at Balaklava, gave his farewell performance at the!Avenue Theatre, London, Thursday night.Albert Hope, \u201cactor, poet and gentleman,\u201d as the despatch says, has been sentenced at Memphis, Tenn., to four years in the penitentiary for forging a draft on the National Broadway Bank, Mrs.Grant, widow of Gen.Grant, is bitterly opposed to the removal of her husband\u2019s remains trom where she laid them at Riverside to Washington, as proposed by Senator Plumb\u2019s bill now before Congress.An English detective is in New York seeking to arrest W.H.Hurlbert for perjury in tbe suit brought against him by Gladys Evelyn.Mr.and Mrs.Hurlbert have left New York without giving any instructions as to the forwarding of their mail.At a Conservative convention held in Almonte yesterday, Mr.B.Rosamond, of that town, was nominated to carry the standard of the party in the contest for the seat in the Commons for North Lanark, made vacant by the appointment of the late member, Mr.J.Jamie- son, to a judgeship.\u2018What is known as the Daisy Hopkins cage came up in the High Court of Justice iu London Saturday.The gir wag gent by the Cambridge University authorities to the Spinning house for \u201cwalking the street with a university man.\u201d That sentence was appealed, and the appeal was Saturday sustained, so Daisy goes free.The Boston Globe says Henry L.Nor- crose, a note broker, has not been seen at his office since the middle of last week, and now the detectives are trying to find out whether the missing man had _ anything to do with the bomb throwing in Russell Sage\u2019s office, Some pieces of the bomb thrower\u2019s clothing are said to match a suit of clothes which a Boston tailor made for Norcross, \u2014 WAR CLOUD IN THE EAST, Russia Believed to Have Stirred Revolution in the Pamir Frontier, CAPTURED BY TRIBESMEN.Fort Chalt Taken But Retaken by British Troops\u2014Colonel Durand and Five Officers Wounded\u2014Mtaisterial and Military Circles Excited \u2014-Found the Army in ve- cupation\u2014The Excitement in London.LoxpoN, Dec.12.\u2014Government dispatches received this evening from Cal- cntta report hard fighting on the Pamir frontier between British Indian troops and tribesmen claiming to be under Russian protection, in which Colonel Darand, British Mililary Agent at Gilgit, Captain Aylmer and Lieutenant Badcock were severely wounded, Lieutenant (Gor- ton and several other officers sligntly wounded, and seven Sepoys killed and 26 wounded.Incidents Leading to the Trouble, The incidents leading up to this appeal to arms are reported as follows : At Gilgit is a British agency, garrisoned by some Kashmirees and Indian Ghoork- has and a battery of artillery.The tribesmen of Hunza and Nagar, two towns on the River Indus, have for some time been tbreatening the Chalt fort, held by a detachment of Xashmirees.This caused Col.Durand te make anad- vance upon the Chalifort for the purpose of re-entorcing the garrison.\u2018Lhis advance of British troops was made early in the present month, for on Nov.29, Colonel Durand wired the commander in chief that he should move upon the ene- mvon Der.2 unless Le was previously attacked by the tribesmen who were reported to Le assembling in large numbers and to have been instigated in their action hy Russian agents.Colonel Durand also telegraphed the same day that he feared that a serious conflict was inevitable, although he done everything possible to prevent it.Found the Enemy in Occupation On arriving in tbe vicinity cf Fort Chalt it 18 presamed that Colonel Dur- and and the attacking force found the enemy in occupation, for dispatches fail to refer to what had become of the Kash- miree garrison, known dc have been there.Colonel Durand decided to carry the fort by storm.Captain Alymer most gallantly led the storming party, carrying a gun cotton petard, and in face of a hot fire of musketry, dashed up to the iron bound gate, attixed the petard to it, lit the fuse and retreated.The next moment Captain Aylmer saw that the petard had blown the gate of the fort to pieces.Captain Alymer and Lieutenants Boisragon and Badeock, followed by a bandful of Sepoys, then made a dash into the fort and, after som- desperate fighting, captured a fiel gun which had been used effectively agains: the attacking party.Tbe Br:tish oftficers and Sepoys also captared nine prisoners, the remainder of the rebel tribesmen fleeing, leading a number of dead inside and outside the fort.Excitement in London.These alarming reports caused cons d- erable excitement and commsant when they became known at the military and naval cluks throughout she city.Old and exprrienced Indian officers regard the outbreak of hostilities between England and Russia as a very grave affair and the most alarming news received from India since the Indian matiny.The younger officers are elated at the chance of seeing active service, and are loud in their expression of hope that the lonz expected war with Russia is actually on the tapis.A constant exchange of dispatches is going on between high government officials here.Fome of the officials of the India office, who are apparently going to pass the night in that building, rèfuse to furnish any other information to inquirers than that already given above.One officer of high rank, who has recently returned from India, said there coald now be no doubt tbat affairs on the frontier ofthe Pamir district had reached a most delicate and dangerous stage.The Russian Ambassador had a long interview with Lord Salisbury to-day.A cabinet council has been summoned, the purpose being, it is understood, to discues the Eastern situation as modified by the battle.\u2014\u2014\u2014e\u2014me TYPEWRITER\u2019 TRANSATLAN TICRACE \u2014\u2014 She Went After English Stock Proxies, Get Them, and Is Making a Travel Record, New Haven, Dec, 12.\u2014James Gardner Clark became convinced in the last week in November that he could not receive certain proxies of English stockholders in an Anglo-American company in time to use at a meeting in a Western city.He decided, therefore, to send an agent across the water to get them.There was just an bour in which to prepare for the departure.Five men in the office hesitated, and Miss Bessie Johnson.Mr.Clark\u2019s stenographer, voluntered to go.In halt an hour she was on her way to the railroad station.Bhe sailed on Nov.25 and arrived in Liverpool Dec.2.There she learned that the fast boat on which she expected to return on Dec.9 had been taken off, and that a slow boat had substituted.On that vessel Miss Johnson could not hope to reach New York Nov.19.That would be too late, and it was necessary, therefore, to be ready to sail on Dec.5.From Liverpool Mis Johnson bad to go to Edinburgh, London and Exeter.She had to cover 1000 miles in less than three days,see several business people,explain the purpose for which Mr.Clark desired desired their proxies, and overcome any opposition.It seemed an almost impossible task, but Miss Johnsan did it.À cipher cable message to Mr.Clark brought him the information that she had secured all the proxies and sailed with them on the Servis on Dec.5.She | will be due in New York on Monday, ARRESTED ONLY TO ESCAPE, A Daring and \u2018Successfal Burglar Captured at Port Hope and Escapes.SPECIAL TO THE HERALD, Port Hore, Ont, Dec.12, \u2014Yesterday morning Chief of Police Douglas arrested as the perpetrator of the namerous burglaries that have occurred here lateiy, a man who came to Port Hope about the first of December and put up at the Royal Hotel where he gave the name of J.8.Lawrence.The luggage which consisted of a neat bag and a parcel, was found to contain a complete burglars kit, including cartridges for blowing safes, saws, and files, as well as revolvers, skull crackers, and other weapons aad lans of Messrs.J.F.Clark\u2019s, Mulhol- and & Brown\u2019s, and R.Deyell\u2019s stores.Besides these things, property belonging to Messrs.Hargraft & Machten of Cobourg whose premises were recently burglarized was found in his possession, During the night the prisoner cut his way through the ceiling and escaped through an upper window.Blood marks on the wall sarrounding the jail were found, showing that the man had injured himself.This morning 8 man with injured band and haggard appearance presented himself at Newtonville station where his injuries were dressed and he immediately afterwards disappeared from the place.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 PUNISHING THE REBELS, Horrible Atrocities Committed by the Chinese on the Christians, LoNpoN, Dec.12,\u2014A despatch from Pekin states the recent victories of the imperial troops sent against the rebels in Mongolia have brought the insurrection to an end.All the disturbances in the country appear to have terminated, and affairs are resuming their normal condition.By order of Li Hung Chang, the Chinese viceroy, summary punishment is inflicted on the captured rebels who are convicted of having taken partin the massacre of Christians.Forty-two insurgents who were proved beyond doubt to bave bad a hand in the murder of Christians have been beheaded at Takou.Cxrcaco, Dec.12,\u2014A special cablegram from Shanghai says: * The report that the Mongolian rebels have suffered another defeat is con- fiimed.They were followed up so closely by General Nich after the battle of Chao-Yang that they made another stand in desperation, and were again driven with great slaughter before the Imperial troops.The particalars of the fight have not yet been received.Europeans here express the opinion that the rebels would have surrendered or dig- persed but for their knowledge that no mercy would be shown them.Information from rebel sources is ts the effect that certain Mongolian tribes were initiated into rebellion by the increased exactions and great rigor of the Chinese authorities.The Chinese have lately been establishing a stricter administration in portions of the Empire adjoining Russian territory, and the Mongols have been brought more closely within the imperial jurisdiction.The motive of this is to present a compact defencs to possible aggressions by Russia.\u201cLi Hurg Chang has ordered the punishment of all who were engaged in the massacre of native Christians at Tien-Tsin and several rioters have besn caotured and killed, the Pekin government having granted leave for immediate beheading in all such cases.Euro- reans are convinced that the anti- Christian riots are caused in many if nos all cases by tbe hatred which the uppar class Chinese bear toward the foraignsrs, tbis hatred being grounded on jealousy of foreign intelligencs and influence.The literat1 are the promoters of the disturbances by the appeals to the ignorance.ot the people with stories about babies being killed and their eyes and lungs taken out for medicine.\u201cItissaid that at Sanchi the murderers of the Belgian and native Christians carried about the mutilated body of a child in order to further excite the fury of the populace.The body was that of & child of Christian parents brutally killed by the rioters themselves.It served the purpose of exciting the people and urging them on to further horrors and cruelties, This belief inthe child slaying propensity of the Christians appears to prevall everywhere that tha missionaries have penetrated.\u201cThe secret societies, it is asserted by the missionaries, are not aimed so much at foreigners as at the Chinese Government, but the mandarins and literati try to give the impression to Europeans that the atrocities for which they are themselves responsible were perpetrated by the societies.\u201d \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 SHE SPED ON A BICICLE FOR HELP A Young Woman Rides Into Town and Gives an Alarm of Fire, \u2018WEzsTBORO, Mass, Dec.I2.\u2014About midnight last night a bareheaded girl rode into town on a bycicle and gave an alarm of fire.The old Capt.Maynard was in flames, and the girl, who had ridden togive the alarm, Miss Mabe! G.Stone, daughter of B.J.Stone, the present owner of the property.Miss Stone is 20 years old.She was awakened by the crackling of flames.Hastily dressing, she rushed out, and found the house ablaze.Her first thought was to get to town and give an alarm, and thus save the large barge barn, 150 feet long and full of cattle.She mounted her bicycle, and declares she never made such fast time to town before in her life.The Fire Department reported just in time 0 save the barn and outbuildings.Ihe old Capt.Stephen Maynard \u2018mansion was one of the landmarks in this vicinity, and was built before 1759.Mr.Maynard was wealthy, and, it is said, spent seven years in selecting the timber and building his home.\u2014__Z They Will Ask Congress to Help the Fair.Crrcaco, Dec.12,\u2014The second day's session of the conference between the Board of Control of the World\u2019s Fair and the delegates from the various States convened this morning.A resolution was presented by Mr.Farquhar of Pennsylvania asking the representatives of the various btates to petition Congress for an Appropriation of $5,000,000 for the use of the Fair, The resolution was adopted, 21 Btates voting aye, 5 States not voting, and 2 absent.MONTREAL.MONDAY DECEMBER 1 891 LA VERITE AND ITS LIBEL CASE.Some Interesting Official Correspondence on that Ex- oiting Topic.HCN.CHARLES LANGELIER Replies at Length to the Charges Made by Hon, L.P.Pelletier, States the Facts of the Case and Quotes Authorities ia Support ot Premier Mercier\u2019s Actioo\u2014La Verite\u2019s Insinuations Denled.SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.QUEBEC, Dec.12.\u2014Hon.Charles Lan- gelier, Provincial Secretary, has issued the following reply to certain charges made by Hon.L.P.Pelletier in the libel sult against Mr.Tardivel of La Verite: PROVINCIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, Quesec, Dec.11, 1891, the Honorable L.P.Pelletier, Quebec: Sir:\u2014His Hon.the Lieutenant-Gov- ernor has transmitted to my department your letter Dec.4, which was received by me on the fifth of the same month, relative to the prosecution against M., Tardivel for seditious libel.You state in that letter that \u2018the con- \u201cgtabulary force of the Provincial Police \u201cwere afterwards set on foot and the \u201ceditor of La Verite was forcibly arrested \u201cat his residence, Dec 2.\u201d This complaint is unfounded, because your client was treated by the judge and the officers with the greatest courtesy and was only arresied at his own desire, after kindly and repeated efforts had been made to induce him to voluntarily come up and give the necessary bail.Your client himself has contradicted you in his paper, La Verite, of the next day\u2019s date.This article bore the heading, \u2018 Beditious Libel; my arrest,\u201d and was signed by M.Tardivel.After having stated that towards 11 o\u2019clock of the tol- lowing morning, Wednesday, Dec.2, he wen t to the Police Court and there mst Judge Murray, he goes on to relate the conversation which took place between him and the judge as follows: The Judge.\u2014\u201cM.Tardivel, will you fix an hour to meet me ?\u201d \u2018* Certainly, what hour will.guit you ?\u201d \u201c Let us say 2 o\u2019clock this atternoon.\u201d \u201c Very good; only will you tell why you wish to see me ?\u201d \u201c Oh! so that you may giye bail.\u201d \u201c Bail! Prisoners aloze give bail.1 am not a prisoner; I have seen no warrant.When I am arrestad, I will try to find the necessary bail.Until then, it is not my business to do so.I waited for Mr.Gale until 10.30 o\u2019clock, but he did not come.\u201d The Judge\u2014\u201c Mr.Gale did not go to your house this morning because [ told bim notto do so.This was to obviate the annoyance to you of an arrest; but as this is the way you take the matter, you will be arrested.\u201d \u201c Towards one o'clock my lawyer, Mr.L.P.Pelletier, telephoned me that Mr.Gale was at his office with a warrant for wy arrest, signed by Mr.Denis Murray, and he added, Mr.Gale asks you to come before Judge Murray.My answer to Mr.Pelletier was: Tell Mr.Gale that if he wants me he must come and take me.Half an hour afterwards the high constable was at my house, when he spoke to me in En.lish.* Then he said: \u201c You know why I am here, I presume ?\u201d \u201cI suspect it,\u201d \u201cI have a warrant for your arrsst.Would you like to see it ?\u201d \u201cCertainly.\u201d He handed me the warrant and I read in it that it was well and truly of seditious libel that I was ace cused.I passed him back the document saying : ; I am sorry, Mr.Gale, to see an Englishman put his hand to such work\u2014 to arrest a journalist for seditious libel, an offence not even mentioned in our statutes.\u201d \u201cWhat would you have me do ?I must execute the orders given me.\u201d \u201cWith such ideas a government might make you do anything, See France.Magistrates have resigned rather than execute unjust orders.\u201d \u201cHe did not seem to destre to enter upon this ground.He begged me to go voluntarily myself before Judge Murray.\u201cMy reply was: Arrest me, if you would have me go.Not being guilty of the offence charged againsi me, I shall not constitute myself a prisoner of my own accord.\u201d \u201cHe did not wish to lay his hand upon me, \u2018Finally he left, declaring in an ill- humored tone that the warrant would be executed.\u201cVery well, I said, follow your trade.\u201d \u201cThree quarters of an hour afterwards, two constables of the Provincial Police, Burke and Buteau, came to my house and, in presence of Dr.8amson and of my wife and children, effected the arrest in the ordinary way, by putting a hand on my shoulder and saying : \u2018You are my prisoner.\u2019 I went to the Police Court between two constables.\u201cMr.Tardivel then states that he went to the high constable\u2019s officer and adds, after relating an altercation with that officer: \u201cDr.Samson and M.Samuel Buesieree, merchant and ¢ity councillor, having arrived at this moment, I was :mmediately admitted to bail.\u201d High Constable Gale relates the circumstances of the arrest in the following terms, in a letter addressed on the 10th instant to Messrs.Dunbar and Amyot : \u201cOn the afternoon of the 2nd Decem- bee instant I saw Mr, Tardivel at his re- To sindrce on the St.Foy road, I told him that I had called with a warrant for his arrest, handing at the same time the warrant for his pérusal, as I am in the habit of doing in such cases.\u201cAfter he had read the warrant [ told him that he must consider himself ar- 1ested, ard requested him to accompany me to the Court House.This he refused todo.I then returred to the Court House, and later in the afternoon Mr.Tardivel was arrested by Seregant Burke, of the Provincial Police.\u201d On the 9th December instant, Hon.Mr.Langelier sent tte follewing letter to His Honor, Judge Murray, together with à copy of vour letter : PROVINCIAL SECRETARY\u2019S OFFICE, QUEBEC, 9th December.1891.No.3:82, 91.Judge Murray, Quebec : SIR,\u2014I have the honor to forward you copy of aletter uddressed by Hon, L, P.Pelletier to the Lieut.-Governor in Council, re Regina vs, Tardivel, charge of libel, and to request you to communicate to me immediately your reply in writing on the complaints made in the n#me of M, Tardivel, touching the way in which be has been treated in this affair by yourself or the officers of your court.I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, (Signed), CHAS.LANGELIER, Provincial Secretary Tre following was Judge Murray's answer : J udge of the sessions of the Peace, District of uebec, QUEBEQ, 10th December, 1891, S1r,~T have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of Dec.9, enclosing me copy of a letter from Hon.L.P.Pelletier to His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec in Council, dated the ith of the same month, and requesting me to let you know immediately, in writing, my reply to the complaint made in Mr, Tardivel\u2019s name by Mr.Pelletier, concerning the way in which Mr.Tardivel has been treated by me or by the officers of my court, in re Regina vs Tardivel, on à charge a séditious libel, and, in answer, to state ; 1lhat on Dec.1, Hon.Mr.Mercier, Premier of the Province, came before me to swear to a deposition for seditious libel against the said Mr.Tardivel, and that, immediately after signing and attesting said deposition, he requested me, if possible, not to arrest r.Tardivel, but to have him notified by a messenger, as he did not wish to subject\u201d Mr.Tar~ divel to the annoyance of arrest uy a constable.\u2018Thereupon 1 said to the Premier that wben a complaint was lo.ged against a respectable citizen domiciled within the limits of my jurisdiction, [ always made it a point to warn him and ask him tocome before me and that 1 would do the same in Mr.Tardivel\u2019s case, Shortly afterwards, Mr.L.Pelletier called upon me and asked me ila warrant had been issued against Mr.Tardivel, saying that if there was one, he would bring him with his bailsmen.I at once accepted Mr.Pelletier\u2019s offer, and, in the course of the afternoon, of the same day, the first December, instant, I saw Mr, Tardivel in the Police Court; but as I was holding Court at the time and very busy, he left.On the following morning, Dec, 2, as I was proceeding from the Court room to my chambers to take bail for Mr.Richard White, who wanted to return to Montreal by thel o'clock train of the same day, I met Mr.Tardivel in the passage and,as I was still very busy with the investigation pending before me I told him that if he wished to fix an hour in the course of the afternoon,I would suspend the invesiuigation to accept his bail.hereupon, Mr.Tardivel said tom3 that he had learned that there was a warrant out for him and he desired it to be regularly executed, Ireplied: \u201cVery well.It was out of consideration for you that] did not want to have the warrant executed, but,as you wish it, 1t must be done.\u201d On the adjournment of the investigation at 1 o'clock, I saw High Constable Gale and instructed him to go te Mr, Tardivel and Lo request him once more to come before me and give bail,and, if he refused, to report to me, when I would see what would then have to be done.: Mr.Gale went to the residence of Mr.Tar- divel, when the latter positively refused to come up unless arrested.Thereupon, two constables, Sergeant Burke and Constable Buteau of the Provincial Police, went to Mr.Tardivel\u2019s, and, as he still refused to come up at my request, which renewed by Seigeaut Burke, the latter 10ld him that he should consider himself arrested, whereupon Mr.Tardivel accompanied the two constables.Here, to the best of my knowledge, are all the fucts concerning the arrest of Mr.l'ar- divel.Every consideration was shown him, and everything possible was done to save him aunoyance, .As for the putting over of the investigation it was done in a regular and legal way.1 have the bonor to be, sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) D,.MURRAY.Judge of the Sessions, Hon.Chs.Langelier, Provincial Secretary, Quebec.I have no need to lay any stress on this point.It is very clear that your client does not complain of the way in which Le bas been treated on this painful occasion and that he would not be justified in doing so.Permit me, however, to call your at- ter tion to the words of Judge Murray ia the foregoing letter : \u201cHe (Mr.Mercier) requested me, if possible, not to arrest Mr.Tardivel, but to have him notified by a messenger, as he did not wish to subject Mr.Tardivel to the annoyance of arrest by a constable.Thereupon I said to the Premier that when a complaint was lodged against a respectable citizen domiciled within the limits of my jurisdiction, I always made it a point to warn him and ask him to come before me and that I would do the same in Mr.Tardivel\u2019s case.\u201d Your client was arrested because he wished it so, In order to create a sensation, and, evidently, to pose as a martyr.This was, perhaps, his right, but he has no reason to complain.The remainder of your letter raises several points of law and procedure, which may be summed up in the three following : .1.Does the offence of seditious libel exist in this country ?2, Can it be laid by any citizen whatever?_ | 3.The public authority alone can lay complaint on the subject, and that complaint most be authorized in this Province by the Lieutenant-Governor in council ?Permit me to say that these are legal questions which must be decided by the courts.Your client has been regularly accused by a citizen of this province of an offence known to the common law of England ; he is actually called to reply to this charge before a regular court; he is uncer bail, and the law must follow its course, If the Judge, at the preliminary investigation, is of opinion that in tunis case there is no offence, he will discharge your client.On the other hand, if he thinks that your client should answer before his peers at the assizes to the charge brought againt him, your client must submit like all other citizens.a As to your contention that an order- in-council is necessary to authorize a prosecution of the kind, it is altogether untenable.If should not be mors necessary to authorize a prosecution for misdemeanor, for the offance of seditious libal is only a misdemeanor, than itis to authorize a protecution for murder and for capital felony.Every day, serious offences are de- |.nounced bef re the courts by the representatives of the Attorney-Ggheral, and even by private parties, and has never occurred to any one to pretend that an Continued on Page Five, Te, A ae.- | 3 CENTS.36 PER YEAR NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL.There Wl be an Election in North Lanark on Dec.31 to Fill that Vacancy.LORNE'S ADDRESS SEIZED.The Trouble About the Payment of the Ex penses of Calling Out the Militia ia the Late Chaudiere Strike Likely to be Set- tled-Troutle Among the Falthfal in Lincoln County.SPECIAL TO THE HERALD, Orrawa, Dec.13.\u2014The writ for an election in North Lanark as the result of the elevation to the Bench of Mr.Jamie- son, M.P., has been issued.Nominations Dec.24, polling Dec.31.John Argue of Carp is retarning officer.Andiew Allan is expected here tomorrow on business with the Government on the fast Atlantic steamship service.Major Sherwood and Inspector O'Leary of the Dominion Police, last night visited J.A, Gravelle\u2019s secondhand store on Rideau-street, and seized the address presented by the Presbyterian Assembly to the Marquis of Lorne, then Governor- General of Canada, on the occasion of the recovery of the Princess Louise in 1883.Gravelle protested that he came by it bonestly and would sue the police for damages, but they persisted, and the Marquis will get his proparty back again.How the address ever left his possession 18a mystery.Major Sherwood will institute legal proceedings.The Hull City Council have referred ol.Anderson\u2019s demand for the payment of the militia called out during the Chaudiere strike to their Finance Committee.It will probably be paid, as Mayor Eddy says he will pay it if the council dces not.James Higgins, arrested for housebreaking, was sentenced to five years\u2019 imprisonment this morning, An electric car ran into a team on Alberv-street this morning, killing one horse.The Marine Department has sent $500 to the Kingston hospital, being the Government\u2019s contribution to the care of sick lake mariners.The Government is inviting tenders for a new powder magazine at the Mont- rose Infantry Corps\u2019 barracks.Mr.J.G.Hawthorne, manager of the Welland-Vale Implement Works, St.Catharines, has been in Ottawaendeavor- mg to get Mr.Bowell and another minister to go to St.Catharines and endeavor to bring harmony in Lincola county.Hon.John Costigan, Minister of Inland Revenue, who has been inaisposed, win resume his official duties on Mon- ay.Hon.Mackenzie Bowell will retarn from Toronto on Monday.The specifications for the new Sou- langes canal will be ready early next week, when tenders will be invited.The estimated cost is $4,750,000.THE LOTTERY SEEMS AHEAD.If Beaten in (Convention the Anti-Lottery Faction Will Fight at the Polls, New ORLEANS, Dec.12.\u2014Euery parish tut one, West Baton Rouge, hus elected delegates to the Democratic State Convention.Many contradictory claims have been made as to the reslut of the election on the lottery question.A careful review of the situation shows that the faction faverable to the lottery has elected 8 majority of the delegates, and will control the convention.The convention consists of 686 members.On the governorship the delegates stand: McEnery, 371; Adams (Anti-lottery,) 273.Of these, however, 65 of the Mc&nery and 40 of the Adams delegates are contested, leaving the contested delegate: McEnery, 306; Adams, 233.There are nine delegates who are yet to be elected.They will go to McEnery.The lottery is 27 votes weaker than MoEnery, so that on this question the Convention will stand : Anti-lottery, 300; Pro-lottery, 373, without taking any of the doubtful parishes into consideration.The Trutb, one of the antl-papers, admits tc-day that McEnery has a majority of the Convention, but hopes that the lottery can be beaten.The New Delta, the chief anti-lottery newspaper, declares that if the lotiery controls the convention the antis will not give in, but fight the question to the end.The anti leaders held a conference last night to consider the situation, and this declaration is regarded as indicating a split in the party.eee Young Hope Convicted of Forgery, MxmPnis, Dec.12.\u2014AIbert Hope, Who has been on trial here for two days for forging a drafton the National Broadway Bank,was found guilty this morning and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary.Six years ago Hope inherited $50,000 from his father and went to New York, where helived extravagantly.\u2018He was a member of a leading theatrical company.Mrs, Frank Leslie became his friend, and when Hope found that bis draft had been dishonored he said she would \u201cpay him out.\u201d He is wanted in Arkansas for securing $1000 on a fic- ticious draft.He was arrested in Philadelphia for forgery, but was brought here on a requisition.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 The List Grows Larger, SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.WinGrAM, Ont, Dec.12.\u2014A lad named Watsen, aged 13, was drowned in the Maitland river here yesterday afternoon while skating.His body was recovered this morning, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Mr.McMullen is Safe, SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.GueLrR, Ont., Dec.12.\u2014The trial of the | petition against the return of Mr.Mc- Mullen as M.P.for North Wellington was concluded late last night.The petition was dismissed with costs, | MARITIME PROVINCE NOLES, Those Who Will Speak at the Winter Port Question Meeting.SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.Baurrax, Dec.12.\u2014The pablic meeting in the Academy of Music, next Tuesday evening,on the winter port question, will be addressed vy Hon.A.G.Jones, T.E.Kenny, M.P., J.F.Stairs, M.Poy Prof.Weldon, Dr.Farrell, Premier Fielding and Adam Barns.Archbishop O\u2019Brien is aleo expected t> speak as well as others, The train that brought the British tars from the Pacific and arrived at Bad- ford last night, entered the city at 7 o'clock this morning, and the sailors were at once transferred to the troop- sbip Tyne.The men who are going to Vancouver were engaged all day making preparations for the transcontinental Journey, and the train took 1ts departure at 5 o'clock this evening.Another baggage car and a colonist cir have been added, as there are over 100 more sailors going than there were coming.Ths troopship Tyne sails on Monday for England.[EE The Ancaster Murder Case, SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.HamrLroN, Dec.12\u2014John Lottri\u2019ge, who is accused of the murder of John Hyslop, of Ancaster, was brought ta Hamilton from Brantford to-day and charged before Magistrate Cahill with the murder.Lottridge took the matter coolly and had nothing to say.A warrant was swern out before Magistrate Cahill by Detective Greer cnareing George Douglass with the murder of Mr.Hyslop, and the latter will be brought here for trial, Bariram, who wag sentenced from Brantford yesterday to 23 montks in Central prison for cattle stealing, will be brougbt from the latter 1n- stitution when the trial takes place.ea.Crooks Get Their Deserts, SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.Wrxpsor, Ont., Dec.13.\u2014Scribner and McGill, the patent right note manipulators, who were convicted on two charges of forgery, were sentenced yesterday by Judge Homer.Scribner, the elder of the two men who was regarded as the instigator of all the crooked schemes which the two had been working for some time, was given three years at Kingston.McGill, a much younger man who was shown to have been led into the schemes by Scribner and who was shown to have previously borne à good reputation, was let off with six months in the Central Prison at Toronto.\u2014\u2014 Business Troubles in Quebec, SPECIAL TO THE HERALD, Quesre, Dec.12.\u2014Mr.George Boivin, boot and shoe dealer of this city, has assigned his estate at the instance of Mr.Antoine Dassylva Mr.Napoleon Matte has been named provisional guardian and the meeting o! creditors has been fixed for Dec.24.At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs.Portugais & Lemay, Mr.D.Arcand has been named curator and Messrs.Louis J.Roberge and George Labbe, of Montreal, bave been named inspectors.Trying the Personal Charges, SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.\u2018WELLAND, Dec, 12.-\u2014The charge that Mr.G3rmain, whose election as M.P.for Weiland was yesterday declare ! Yoid on account of the corrupt acts of an agent, paid money to one John Wood and also procured a situation for him, is being tried to-day.Wood «nd wife both swear positively that $10 was paid and an attempt made to procure a situation for Wood.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 Burned While in a Fit.SPECIAL TO THE HERALD, DuxNviLLE, Ont., Dec.12.\u2014Yesterday afternoon, while the wife of Wm.Miller, à farmer, residing about five miles east of here, was standing over a bonfire, she took a fit, falling into the fire.She was 80 horribly bnrned in the face and body that it is doubtful whether she will recover.rt Mr, Camerou Steps Down.SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.GopEricx, Ont., Dec.12,\u2014In the mats ter of the West Huron protest, Mr.M.C Cameron has decided to resign his seat without process of trial and will contest it again at the ensuing election.His majority at the last election was 379.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Murderer Brumfield Keeps Up His Record, PARKERSBURG, W.Va., Dec.12.\u2014Charles Brumfield,who recently killed his father; the notorious Paris Brumfield, has killed another man.The shooting took place at the mouth of a tributary of Guayan River, in Lincoln county.Au altarca- tion arose at a resort kept by Willis Stone.Brumfield shot and instantly killed one George Smith.He also wounded Willlam Messenger.Brum field is still at large.Le Strikers Use Dynamite.BraziL, Ind., Dee, 12.\u2014Following the posting of White Cap notices in the Ine diana coal region yesterday a dynamite bomb was exploded in the Pratt mine, a few miles north of here, early this morning.The bomb was placed in a fan cylinder, which was blown to atoms.As a consequence the mine owned by the Coal Bluff Mining Company was shut down to-day, and operations cannot be resumed for atleast a week.The men employed in the mines ars on strike.\u2014\u2014\u2014e\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014_\u2014 The Weather.ToRONTO, Dec, 13\u201411 p.m.\u2014A moderate de pression covers the eastern provinces, and high pressure prevails over the lake district the greater portion of the Northwest.aa weather continues fine and mild throughout the country.There is a tendency to lower temperature in Alberta.Minimum and maximum temperatures: Edmonton, 20-80; Qu\u2019Appelle, 22-28; Winnipeg, 14-28; Port Arthur, 26-43, Toronto, 36-48; Kingston, 38-46; Montreal, 36-46; Quebec, 18-38; Halifax, 142 past to south winds; fair and mild to-day followed by some rain.St, Lawrence, Upper\u2014Fair weather; lower eve Tayrence Lower, Gulf and Maritime\u2014 Westerly winds; fine weather; a little lower ture.Pe tobas Mostly fair and colder.Local falls of snow, mt BOWLERS ON TWO ALLEYS, The Canadien and M.À.À.À.Teams Compete\u2014Ottawa Wins From the Vics, SOME GOOD WINTER MEETS, Promised at fhe Trotting Tracks Here and in Ottawa-Record of Gus Lambert of Montreal\u2014-The Tug of War Contest This Week\u2014Conueff Challenged by Darrin\u2014 St.Paul Kid Makes an Offer.r+ The Montreal Bowling Clube have been unsuccessful in their out of town matches so far this season, and the Oltawas are making a big bid for the championship.It would not be surprising to see them and Canadien Club bowlers playing for first place towards the end of the season.The Canadians bave had a good run of luck so far, and judgirg from their playing, they wil keep it up througbout the winter.The The Montrealers, herotofore, have been doing great work but they suffered au jgnominous defeat in the match at the Canadian alley on Saturda night.The game was witnessed by « large crowd and some remarkably fin shots and strings were made.The scor was by no, means small, and the Cana dian teams majority was 458.The Vic's went up to Ottawa to play the O.A A.A.boys, and a close contest occurred.Ottawa, boweyer, was victorious though, the majority was only 92.On Saturday next the Canadian and Victoria Rifles teams play at the alleys of fhe latter.A week from to-night the second teams of the Vics and M.A.A A.compete, HOCKEY, The Moutreal Bank Team May Go Without Practice.Arrangements have been completed for the first annual inter-Provincial bank hockey match between the Dominion Bank, Toronto, and Bank of Montreal, Montreal.Each of these teams is the champion bank seven of ite Province, so this match wili be practically for tha Canadian bank championship; [The match will be played in Mutual-straet on New Year's Day and should prove a big event on that holiday.There is no reason why the Torontos should not have the best of the first match as the boys bere have had no ice for practice and from appearances may not need their sticks before goinz to Toronto.Hockey at McGill.A large and enthusiastic meeting of McGill students was held on Friday evening to reorganize for the coming season.It was evidenced by the attendance of new blood that McGill's team will be strengthened this season.The secretary\u2019s report was read and gave the club every encouragement pos- gible after their good showing last year.The old system of Interfaculty matches will be revived and played during the last week in January.The following officers were elected : President\u2014Mr.Smyth (Arts).Secretary-Treasurer\u2014Mr.lrving.Committee of management\u2014Pritchard rae) Davidson (Arts), Primrose Ecience), Anderson (Vet.Med.).It is the intention of the team to go to Ottawa to pay Ottawa Hockey Tuam during the eariy part of the season: Mr.T.N.Walsh (Medicine) was elected as captain.Hockey in Cornwall, A meeting of the Cornwall Hockey Club was held at the curling rink the other evening, when arrangements were made for playing the game during the coming winter.Cornwall has the making of a first-class team, and as they intend inviting some of the city clubs here this winter, some good matches will no dcubt be witnessed.TURF.Monmouth Association has a Lease of Jerome Park and Will Not Build.New York, Dec.12,\u2014With roference to the freely circulated statement that the Monmouth Park Racing Association have purchased land at $4,000 an acre in the vicinity of Morris Park, inquiries prove it to bs of a purely chimerical nature.On mentioning the subject to Mr.Galway, one of the Executive Committee of the association, try how he would he could not suppress an inward chuckle, and remarked that it was equals ly as imaginary as tke \u201ccanard\u201d concerne ing the disposal of his entire racing stable, which was published in some of the pagers.\u201cIf it were true,\u201d continued Mr.Gal- way, \u201cthe outside public knows more of the internal machinery of the club than I do, and that, you know, is highly improbable.Furthermore, we have a lease of Jerome Park, which has another four ears to run, and unless we can raca ai onmouth Park you may be assured we are not going out of our way to abandon old Jerome.\u201d Mr.Cochrane\u2019s Purchase.The Hou.M.H.Cochrane, of Hill hurat, Que., bas made some notable pur- Chases in England in the hackney line.The following is what The English Live Stock Jonrnai has to say : \u201cThe Hon.M, H.Cochrane nas been wisiting Market Weighton and district and has purchased some valuable horses ot the hackney breed, viz.: Of Mr.James Richardson, Hayton, York, a thres-year- old bay mare, Princess Dagmar, by Dan- egelt.This animal 18 from the same mare as Dagmar, champion mare at the New York show last November; she has only been shown twice (once in all aged clase), and was winner on each occasion.Princess Dagmar is in foal to Wregnitt\u2019s Cannyman, half brother to Ganymede, the riserve number to Uonnaught for the Challenge cup atthe hackney show held in London, 1891.Of Mr.Wa, Clarkson, Syke House, Newbold, à 2-year-old bay mare, Charwoman, by Matebless, of Londesborouzh; she is own sister to Échoolgirl that was sold by Mr.Burdett- Coutts to Mr.Belmont, ot New York.Of Mr.John Watson, Bielsbeck, near Market Weighton, Wild Cherry, a 2-year-old bay ware, by Wreghit's Wildfire.Of Mr.Mark Harrison, Market Weighton, Nancy, 3-year-old bay mare, by Match- Jess, of Londesborough, and in foal by Children Cry for Wrezghit®s Wildfire.Of Mr.Wm.Wright, Everingham, York, an entire brown colt, Maxwell, by Prince Alfred, dam Topey, by Royal Charlie II.Also of Mr.Bowser, Primmington, Water Wold, an entire chestnut colt, Dansfort, by Dadgelt, dam Primula, by Lord Derby IL.\u201d The Great Australian Sport.The New York Clipper of last week produces a picture of W.R.Virgoe who is one of the leading patrons and supporters of all branches of sport in Australia and is known throughout the colonies as the Prince of Australian referees.There are a few gentlemen in Montreal who are acquainted with Mr, Virgoe and speak of big highly.He is an independent gentleman of means, being a squatter ard the owner of a stud of race horses, who takes an interest in and does much to advance sport purely for the love of the game, instead of for pecuniary gain.He bas referred all tne boxing matches in the colony of late in which Americana boxers have figured as principals, notably these between Joe Goddard and Joe Choynski an¢ Goddard vs.Jack Ashton.His decisions have given rnre geueral satisfaction than those rendered by any ut:er official at the Antipodes, and the principals for toe latter fight would not bave any one else.In bis time Mr, Virgoe was one of the most expert of amateur boxers, having een a poplo.Jim Mace and Ave Hicke.and he under stands the rules thor uzhly, while a: practical knowledge of the art gives him an advantage over most other person who at times officiated in that capacity; He 18 also an excelient trap shot, havin won mapy prizes in wiag shooting and 18 likewise one of the bestlamateur steeplechase riders in Australia bav ing won the Melbourne and Caulfiei Grand Natiouai steeplechases, togeths with races of minor importance; has placed running matches and jumping contests to his credit, and hae steered his yacht, Secret, to victory on more tnan one occasion, winning the gold\u2018cup given by Lord Brassy on the occasion of his first visic to the colonies.He is a capital billiard player also and has taken part in several matches with credit to himself.He is stili a young man, 3Y years of age, having been born at sea, on board the ship Nepaul, in 1852, el AQUATICS.Of Interest to Yachtmen All Over the Country.New York, Dec.13.\u2014Now that Vice- Commodore E.D.Morgan, of the New York Yacht Club, has given the Here- shoffs an order for a 35-foot yacht there is fear and trembling among owners of boats in this class.One yachtsman, referring to the new boat yesterday, said : \u201cGreat guns |\u201d and another wanted to know what the prospects are for consolidation prizes nextseason.The naws that Mr.Morgau\u2019s new craft isto be a freak of the Dilemma type makes it all the more probable that she will clean out the 35-footers as handily as the Gloriana did the forty-sixes last sum= mer.Few yachtsmen like Mr.Morgan can afford to build freaks according to their whims, so 1t appears that it will devolve upon & comparatively small number to carry out experiments.As long as building produced legitimate yachts men were willing to spend their money to develop classes like the 40 and 46-footers, but at present yachtsmen are waiting to see what type of boat is going to be successful before they place their orders, The Lew 46-footer buildicg at Bristol for Archibald Rogers will give some idea of tbe way things are going in boats of forty feet water line length or over.This yacht will probably not be such a monstrosity as the Boston experts made her out a few weeks ago.She will probably bave about twenty-five tons of lead in her keel and carry more canvas than the Gloriana, but her lead wi:l be placed in about the same place as the Gloriana\u2019s, perhaps a little further aft, and she will appear yery much like the present cham- ion.The Adams brothers ot Boston, owners of the 40-footer Gossoon, have had their eyes on the Beatr.x, the last centreboard boat designed by the late Edward Burgess with a view of buying her to race against the Gloriana and the new 46-footer.They are not convinced that the Beatrix cannot take a few races in the course of the season, snd many Boston men are of the same mind.The Beatrix was not worked up to the highest racing pitch last season, but she showed g.eat speed at times, and is not considered among the 46-footers that have no chance to win.A suggestion made by Secretary J.V.8.Oddie, of the New York Yacht Club, bas met with great favor among th- members of that organization.Mr.Oddie thinks it would be a good plan to have the prizes for last season\u2019s races, now on exhibition at Tiffany & Co\u2019s, arranged in the model room of the club house at 67 Madison-avenue, as one of the features which might be provided for a ladies\u2019 day.It has been some time since ladies were invited to the club house, and the members think it about time to throw the doors open to them.Stewart & Binney, successors to Ed- wurd Burgess, have nine contracts for new boats signed already.Faur will be 21-foot keel single handers for Marble- head yachtsmen.One is an 18-foot catboat, and the other four are a 30-fuot cutter for a Philadelphia yachtsman, a 45-foot schooner of light draught for a New Orleans owner, and two fishermen for Boston parties.One of the fishermen is 97 feet on the water line and is building at Essex.Bbe is about planked.Her owners are the men who gave Mr.Burgess an order for the Carrie E.Phillips, his first fishing schooner.ROWING.The C.A.A.O.Knocked the Bottom Ont of the Nautilus Club.Mr.McAllister, one of the veteran members of the Nautilus Rowing Club of Hamburg, was in this city yesterday He says that boating matters are at low tide in the Ambitious City.His own club have never recovered from the blow given them by by the C.A.A Os treatment of the Donohues et al, which he still believes was unfair.\u201c Hew about the Leanders ?\u201d was asked.; « Oh, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re any better off than ourselves.They hardly forget that dreadful beating the Argonauts gave them this spring.\u201d \u2014Toronte World.George Hosmer Again, A writer in the Boston News says: George H.Hosmer is going to give the rowing men of the country a big surprise next season unless I am much mistaken.À few years ago B»stonians had an idea that Hosmer\u2019s day as a sculler had passed.He was not rowing fast at all, and he became rather downhearted.Then he joined a travelling Pitcher\u2019s Castoria TAE MONTREAL HERAI.D dramatic company, of which he is a present a member, This made it neces sary for him to be in good condition all the time.In the summer it was noticed that he was gradually getting back to bis old form.Last summer he rowed better than ever before.Why, he was in good enough form on the Fourth of July, when he won the city regetta, to race for the championship of America, Next summer he will again try bis band at it.Hosmer is in better con dition now than he ever was before, at d the result of it will surprise the scullers next season.Boston is again very apt to have a champion on water.CHESS.The Russian Expert Arrives at Ravana\u2014 His Reception.Havaxa, Dec.12,\u2014~The Russian chess expert, M.Tschigorin, arrived here yesterday on board the steamship Arionza, A small steam yacht was chartered by the Havana Chess Club, and Messrs.Adolfo, Molinez, A.Ponce, Conill, Vasquez, and otoer local magaates went out into the bay to meet the Russian.The greeting was a most cordial one, ard the weicome given to the stranger was very hearty.Tschigorin was led to the club room, wh-re a large number of members of the clab had assembled to meet him.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ATHLETICS, Annuzl Winter Sports of the Garrison Artillery Athletic Club, The annual winter sports of the Mont- realeGarrison Artillery Amateur Athletic Association will be held in the Drill Hall on Thursday evening next, commencing at 8 p.m, The principal attraction will be the tug of war between the Police and Garrison teams, and it is likely that the Royal Scots will also enter and settle the dispute as to supremacy.The program arranged is as follows © 1.Belectiens by Regimental Band.2.Half-mile run\u2014Open.8.First pall challenge tug of war\u2014For Police Champienship of Canada; 5 minutes pull.Police vs.M.G.A.4.Half-mile run\u2014Police and firemen, 5.One mile run\u2014 Active militia, 6.Second pull\u2014Challenge tug of war 7.Obstacle race.8.First pull\u20143 minutes; tug of war on cleats, open to teams of four men and captain.9.One mile ran\u2014open.10.Second pull\u20143 minutes ; tug of war, 11.One mile walk\u2014heavy marchirg order ; aclive militia.12.Final pull\u20143 minntes ; tug of war.Races will be governed by lawa of the Amateur Athletic Association Canada.Races are open to amateurs onfy.Only club officials and representatives of the press will be allowed inside the ropes.Three bonafide competitors will be required in each event to ensure second prize.Entrance fee to races Nos.2,4,5,7, 9.11, 25c.Entrance fee, 3-minute tug of war, $1 per team.Post entries will be received by Capt, Finlayson and Capt, Ogilvy.An Athletic\u2019's Great Work.Bcsron, Dec, 12,.\u2014P.J.Finneran of the Boston \"Athletic Association has done great record work in hurdling this season.It was not long ago that he broke the American record for the 440- yard burdle, and a short time later made a New England record for the same distance over the three-foot hurdles.Now comeg the news that his time for the 22y-yards low hurdles at the First Regiment amateur athletic games was the fastest ever made at ary indoor meting ever held in the country.This time was 31 seconds.Wili Not Walk O'Connor.Toronto, Dec.12.\u2014Yesterday William O'Connor called on William McDonald for the purpose of closing the agreement whereby the latter's unknown pedestrian was to endeavor to walk from Hamilton to Tcronto on the proposed wager of $500 a side.O'Connor wanted the trial wade to-day and was ready with his money, but McDonald said the roads were not in a8 good condition as on last Sunday, when O'Connor walked.An agreement could not be reached as to the tims for the walk, and consequently no match was made.In reference to the challenge of John Little, of Hamilton, to a 50 mile heel-and- toe walk, O'Connor says he is not a professional and will not walk for money.O'Connor said last night: \u201cI\u2019m only an amateur walker, and I\u2019m not going to become a professional at that business, so 1 won't make matches with anybody.It isu\u2019t my line.\u201d Light-Weight Wre stlers.New York, Dec.12\u2014The wrestling match between Martin Dempsey and John Leonard for the collar-and-albow championship of America at 118-122 pounds wil take place next Monday evening at Manhattan Hall.The winner of the best two out of three falls gets all the money, $100 and the gato re- ceipis.WRESTLING.The Record of Gus Lambert, Montreal\u2019s Wrestler, Boxer and Athlete, Gus Lambert's return to Montreal has caused considerable talk as to his wrestling and fighting abilities, and owing to the many enquiries made we herewith append his record.Lambert is the undisputed all round champion of the world.He was born on Dec.5, 1855, in St.Guillaume, P.Q.He stands5 feet 74 inches in stocking feet and weighs 185 pounds in condition.His principal hobbies are Greco-Roman and catch-as- catch-can wrestling, boxing, running, weight throwing, club swinging and heavy weigbt lifting.He raises a 210 dumbbell with one hand and breaks a stone with his bare knuckles.His last contest was in England, when he defeated Teddy O'Neill, Shortly after he, Lambert, had been defeated by Maher.His record is as foliows : On Dec.15, 1880, beat John Scott, in three rounds, in New York.May 5, 1881, beat Charles Jones in two rounds New York.Oct.11, wrestled a draw with Dick Pooler, catch-as-catch-can, time 1b.25m., in Cleveland, Ohio.June 25, 1882, threw Ooey McCarthy, catch-as | catch-can, time 18m., in New York.Aug.| 1, threw Dick Pennell, Græco-Roman, time 23m., 1n Philadelphia.Oct.4, beat Jack Davis, of England, in four rounds, in Floshirg Bay, N.Y.Nov.10, beat Jobn Keefe, in three rounds, in Phila delpbia.Dec.3, beat James Golden, in jour rounds, in Philadelphia.Jan.4, 1883, Feat John Hughes, the \u201cDangerous Blacksmith,\u201d in three rounds, in New 8, SJACOBS OI Ma i : & nan of Sut Toa CZ THE GREAT.\u20ac i FE MEV PAL WHAT IT WILL DO.Colizf \u2014Insnyclimete, at any season, one ap vis of st, Jacobs Oil relieve \u201c ii s; often cure permanently.\u2018à his is (ke average experience in ten years.Cures.\u2014The contents of & single bottle have cured extreme chronic cases in thousands of instances.Used according to directions, there is © cure in every bottle.The Testimony,\u2014Thousands of testi- mors subsiantiate the above statements in the cure of all kinds of painful ailments.{ The Seat,\u2014A patient knows instine- tively the scat of his ison knowsthat what y > ever May be the origirof his ailment, its expression\u2019 or development produces aches and pains.ins and Aches may be clasified betel as those of She hônes, the joints, the muscles and the nerves, They may be classified also as to their cause, Treatment,\u2014Rub the parts affected thoroughly with St.Jacobs Oil.Apply night and morning if necessary.Protect the body from draft and cold.THE CHARLES A.VOGELER CO., Baltimors, M&.Canadian Depot: Toronto, Ont.York.April 10, wrestled a draw with Tom Connor, catch-as-catch-can, time 1b., 15m., in Philadelphia.May 8, threw Jack Smith, catch-as-catcn-can, time 14m,, in Mahanoy, Pa.May 28, threw James Loughram, Greco-Roman, time 12m., in Philadelphia.June 10, tbrew Frank Jenks, catch-as-catchecan, time 2m., in Philadelphia.July 15, threw Jim Jasper, catch-as-catch-can, time 8m., in Philadelphia.Aug.25, threw Benny Jones, catch-as-catch-can, time 6m., in Philadelphia.Sapt.12, threw Jobn Dalton, catch-as;catch-can, time 10m., in Philadelphia.Oct.25, threw John Hart, catch-as-catch-can, time 7m., in Philadelphia.Nov.19, threw James Reilly, Greco-Roman, time 12m., in Philadelphia.March 20, 1884, tbrew Leopold Arnold, Greco-Roman, time 28m., in Montreal.June 22, threw David Michaud,*#j catch-as-catch-can, time 25m., in Montieal.Nov.20, beat Jim Fell, in four rounds, for the championship of Canada, in Montreal.April 10, 1885, threw Andrew Christal, Graeco- Roman, for the championship of Canada, time 45m,, in Montreal, June 6, 1889, beat John McGrath in 1 round, in Troy, N.Y., July 15; beat Mike Boden in 13 rounds, in Cohoes, N.Y., Jan.15, 1899; threw James Duane, Grzco-Roman, time 18m, in Adams, Mass.,, March 5; fought a draw with Peter Jackson, 4 rounds, in Troy, N.Y., March 15; threw William Hoefler, Greco-Roman, time 21m, in Cohoes, N.Y., June 2; threw August Schmidt, Greco-Roman, time 28m, in Troy, N.Y, Avg.20; threw Omor Lowe, catch-as-catch-can, time 13m, in Shipley, Eng, Sept.22; threw Tom Longley, catch-as-catch-can, time 11m, in Heck- mondwike, Eng, Nov.12; threw John Smith, catch-as-catch-can, time 7m, in Bootle, Eng., Dec.1; wrestlei a draw with George Steadman, the champion of England, catch-as-catch-can, time 1h 31m, in Liverpool, Eng.,, Feb.7; was beaten by Peter Maher in1 round, in London, Eng., April 23; beat Teddy O'Neill in 12 rounds, in Dublin, Irelacd.Lambert was never thrown in his own style of wrestling, and was beaten only once at boxing by 8 chance blow._ The record to April 23 show the following: (Soxing\u2014Lost 1,drawn 1; won 11 out of 13.Catch-as-catch-can\u2014Drawn 3; won 11 out of 14.Græco-Hbman\u2014Won 8 ont of 8.Lost 1, drawn 4, won 30.Total, 35.A Match for Lambert.The following was received last night: Sporting Editor Herald :\u2014Will you please mention in your valuable paper that I am prepared to match an unknown against Gus.Lambert for from $500 to $1000 a side to box any number of rounds for scientific points Man and money may be found at the \u201cVendome.\u201d 8.8.McKay, This is apparently a good chance for Lambert.Hugh Leonard's Challenge.SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.New York, Dec.12.\u2014Hugh L2onard, the well known wrestler, who is now wrestling instructor of the Manhattan Athletic Club, called at The Polica Gazette office to-day and left the following reply to Ernest Rober\u2019s (the cham- ion Greco-Roman wrestler) challenge : aving read that Ernest Roeber has issued a challenge to wrestle August Schmidt or any man in America for $250 amide and The Police Gazette championship wrestling trophy, I desira to ttate that I will arrange & match to wrestle according to the terms proposed in bis challenge for $250 a side and the trophy he holds.I will meet Rosber and his backer at The Polica Gazette office on Monday, Dec.14,to sigo articles cfagreement, Richard K.Fox to be stakeholder and referee.\u2014 THE RING.Sallor Brown Shows Up iu New York Looking for More of it.Sailor Brown was always recognized ag a pretty good bluffer.He had the best time in his life while in Montreal, and the match with Hawking settled him.He left and has now turned up in New York, whera, strange to say, the papers take notice of him.The Sun of yesterday says : \u201c Sailor Brown, who arrivad, from Boeton yesterday, announced in The Illustrated News office that he would meet Peter Maher in the Madison- square Garden, and if he did not stay with the Irishman in a four-round go, he w- nted no pay, He had money to bet, he said, that he could last the four rounds.\u201d The Sailor would have to begin anew.Conneff Challenged by Darrin.T.P.Copneff, the champion amateur distance runner, who has decided to join the professional ranks, salls on the Um- bria to-day.The backer of Harry Darrin, the well known professional ranner, met Conneff at The Sporting Times office yesterday and offered to match his man for a seriesof races against the Continued on Page Thræ.Gibbon\u2019s tootache gum, price 15 cents all druggist, THE CANADIAN AGENOY OF THE \u2014\u2014 TURF : COMMISSION : CO\u201d?of New York Isat 201 St.JamesStreet, Montreal.York, March 14, beat Dominique Mat Caffrey, in four rounds, This company executes commissions on all racing and other sporting events in the Enon coo © & POST-OFFICE TIME TABLE.DECEMBER 1891.640 3 WU Aclonvale.Q 73s 1430 70 425°Albany.$ 830.0, BU 5 (5 Alexatdris LL QLI30 9 10 45 7 20 Arnprior: .Q 946i 440 710 800 Arthabaskaville; 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Uited States, Grea Britain, France or Canin New danSpecial'wires \u2018ect\u2019 day, Dec 18, -\u2014 pe teen É Ei > guaranteed.1741 NOTRE op azz PRECIOUS STONES IN STOCK IN GREAT VARIETY.DESIGNS FURNISHED FREE OF THE LARGEST STOCK OF HIGH GRADE WATCHES, including REPEATERS and CHRONOGRAPHS, at lowest possible prices.Every watca STELLING 81LVER NOVELTIES.CHARGE.J.B.WILLIAMSON DAME STREET .onday, Dec 2).D' y Mopgollan, Allan Line,6 p m Mondas c 21.Fy City of New York, Inman Line, 4p m + esday, Dec 22, y Etruria, Cunard Line, 4 p m Fr.day, Dec à y, Dec 28 a } y Labrador, Do mini on Line, 6 p m Monday, Dec FRANCE.By La Champagne, Gen Tr Atl Lin e, 6 Pp _m,Dec3.By La Bretagne, Gen Tr Atl Line, 4 p m, Friday, Dee 11.Per La Bourgogne, Gen Tr At Line , 6 pm, hursday, Lec 17.Per La Gascogne, Gen Tr At Line, 4 pm, Friday, Dec 25, countries, as follows: Central America, except Costa Rica and Guatemala; and the South Pacifie ports via Colon; also spec.add.corr.for Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1, 10, 21, 31.Brazil, Argentine Republic, Uruguay, Paraguay, 4, 3, 9, 18.Porto Rico.3, 24.\u2019 \u2018Windward Istands, 2,23 Hayti, Cumana and Carupano, also spec.add, corr.for Curacoa, Venezuela, Trinidad, British and Dutch Guiana, 19.Yucatan, Campeche, 'fabasco and Chiapas; 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restore the weakness ef body or mind caused by overwork, or the errors and excesses of yout.This Remedy abyoiutely eures the most obstinate cases, when other TREATMENT; have failed even to relieve.gThey do not, like oth °r prepara, tions advertised for Lost Manhood.eto., interfere with digestion ; but impart new life, strength and energy in a quick and harmless Price $1.00 per package, or sx for $d, of apt by mall on receipt of price.Sold by LAVIOLETTE & NELSON, 1605 Notre Dame-street, and B.BE McGALE, Write for pamphiet, 2233 NotreDame-stres STRATHY BROTHERS INVESTMENY BROKERM {MEMBERS MONTREAL STOUK EXOHANGE] ST, FRANÇOIS XAVIER ST.MONTREAL \u201d Business strictly confined to commission Coupons cashed, and dividends collected and remitted.Interest allowed on deposits over one thousand dollars, remaining ove seven days, subject to draft at sight.Stocks, bong and securities bought and sold, Special attention given to investment, Correspondents\u2014 Goodbody, Glyn & Dow, New York, Blake Bros.& Co., Boston, Panmure Gordon, Hill & Co.DR.JAMES | London, Englan y labn Nor, German Llocyd Lne, 4 pm y Havel, Nor Ger Lloyd Line,4p m Mon- ec 28.By Majestic, White Star Line,4 p m Tues- &J.Mails leave New York for the following THE EDISON PH3 GGRAPH + \u2014 EXHIBITION MACHINES, $180.Phonographs rented for evening entertainments, Uperators supplied.HOLLAND BeOS.& YOUNG, Telephone 2963.1740 NOTRE DAME ST Agents for the Smith Premier Typewriter.PATENTS.- Caveats and Re-issues secured, Trade Marks egistered, and all other patent causes inthe Patent office and before the Courts promptly apd carefully prosecuted.Upon receipt of model or skeich of Invention I make a careful examination and #de vise as to patentability free of charge.With my offices directly across from the Patent Office and being in personal attenc- Ance there it is apparent thac : have superior facilities for making prompt preliminary searches, for the more vignrous and success: ful prosecution ot applications for patent and for attending Lo afl business entrusted to my care in the shortest possible time.FEES MODERATE, and excinsive ate teniion given to patent business, Info-ma- tion.advice and special reference sent OR re quest.9 J.B.LITTELL licitor and Attorney in Patents Causes, go Washingion D, @ Mention this paper, @ WILLIAM DOW à C9.Brewers & Malisters CHABOILLEZ SQUARE.\u2014 dia Pale, Pale, XXX, and XX ALES.Crown, Extra Double and Single s8TOoUY in Wood and Fottle.iit FAMILIES SUPPLIED iu: Bell Telephone 359 Federal 1575 The public are cautioned against dealers who re-use our labels on bottles filled with other ales.The following City Bottlers are alone authorized to use our irade mark labels, viz.: W.BISHOP, No, 53 Dorchester-street.T.FERGUSON, No.162 St, Elizabeth-et, TT.J.HOWARD, No.683 Dorchester-8t,3 T, KINSELLA, No, 241 8t.Antoine-st, J.VIRTUE & SON, No.19 A vImer-st.Dawes & Co.BREWERS, TACHINE, P.Q.| MONTREAL OFFICE : 531 St.James-street West, Pale Ales and Porter in Wood and Bottie FAMILIES SUPPLIED JOHNH.RB.MOLSCN & BROS Ale and Porter Brewers.1006 Notre Name Street Mouireal Have always on hand the various sinde of ALEX AND PORTER.IN WOOD AND BOTTLE reguiany supplie.a PEUR AS ou Saloni Gi tain.Be Alo, Ar 28%, BEST.Lime, 2 Cy «sa.ar anv Injuriants MONEY TO LOAN ON CITY PROPERT Y AND GOOD FARMS HUTCHINS & BROWN, New YorkLife* Zi _ JAMES BAXTER 120 871.FRANÇOIS XAVIER STREBT, MONTREAL) O)mmerclal Paper Bought Advances made on Warehouse Recolpia Real Estate Bought or: BzchaZed \u2014 Pe 2 PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS Continued from Page Seven of norses at these stables for week ende ing Dec.12 were 109 : Left over from previous week ,.«9 Total for Week.coerrieiriivae.rnirns .133 Shipped during week.2 Left forcity.\u2026.33 Sales for week.ascautessesa ua sn00 13 On hand for sale, horses and ponies .19 .There has been quite an improvement in the horse trade at these stables during the week and 13 horses and pcnies were sold at fairly satisfactory prices.We have on hand for sale 59 horses, comprising first class drivers and heayy and medium draft horses, with one carload to arrive, West End Live Stock Market, The receipts of live stock at the yards of the Montreal Stock Yards Company, Point St.Charles, for the week enling Dec.12, were : ge gg = ® \u2014 = àè is < sv £2 535 600 932 79 Lett over from previous .CweeK.iii 37 .Total for week .\u2026.-.\u2026.\u2026.626 639 1019 79 Left on hand.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.17 ape coon There was slight improvement in the cattle trade this week and mostly all sold.including the remainder from last week, though at no better prices.Shesp, steacy at 3c; lamis, 4cto 4dc.The live hog trade is \u201coff\u201d and must be bought to sell bere at 4 cents to compete with dressed hogs at 5}c to bic, with which the market is flooded.We quote the following as being fair values: Cattle Butchers good.Ceeen teanreeene 3 @3ic se medium.\u2026.\u2026.vecuecsnuse 2i@3ic \u201c \u201c CUS.0.201000 sance 0000 2 @2jc Sheep.- 3 @0WMe Hogs.« S4@4.250 Calves.227 AMERIOAN MARKErs \u2014 The Chicago Markets, Messrs.Schwartz, Dupee & McCormick of the Board of Trade, Chicago, report over direct wire to Oswald Bros., meni.bers of the Montreal Stock Exchange, 13 and 15 Hospitals-treet, giviog the highest, lowest, opening and closing at Chicago for to-dav : af 2 4 388 | a g > B x © ph S = ol HIS 3 W HAEAT.00DEC 00000 914) 913 uly 91% an sassfecoeuvefscrscofivc000 pe cacnnefuccos i ++ or ay 98 97} 7 COBM c4ssu : DEC Le = 55 88 55 Jan.46H 467) 46) 461 Feb .vent) vavaafeanes.[ioans .May .43H} 43 43 43 VATS.0eeser DOC.= 3 32 32 Jan.324 8 82 32, Feb.fessseu] + ill] ieee May.| 33h} 33} 334 83% PORK.+.\u2026.Dec.| B24 834 8 20; 834 Jap-.s\u2026.| 11 05: 11 05| 10 92} lu 5 ED.+ fearsonf ie May.11 55; 11 65j 11 37j 11 40 LARD.001000 DEC.sfe+s ca ofecn sen lrconnef ca000 Jan.612 615 614 610 Feb.c+uenofrcscautios vof 00000 May.6 50 650 6471 647 Messrs.Schwartz, Dupee & McCormick, of the Chicago Board of Trade, send the following report to Messrs.Oswald Br »s., 13 and 15 Hospital-street, over tuvir direct private wire: CurcaGo, Dec, 12.\u2014The wheat- market to-day was extremely dull and inclined to the weak side.Local operators ara all bearish and we do not see anything in the situation to advance prices.May soul between 98ÿc and 97}c, closed at c Corn was rather easier to-day.Ysar sold between 535 and 55c, closing at 55.January between 464c and 46{c, closiu < at 464c.Receipts were moderate, being nearly all new corn, but only a few cars of contract corn.Oats were dull and neglected.Provisions\u2014Dull and weaker on large receipts of hogs.[January pork, between $11.05 and $10.92, closing at $10.95.We look for lower prices.Estimated receipts for hogs next week, 240,000.BRITISH MARKETS.Liverpool Grain and Provisions.The following are to-day\u2019s quotations and comparisons: Dec, 11.Dec, 12.sd.sd.sd s.d.Spring wheat.8 6to8 6} 8 6t086 Redwheat.| 8 6to8 6j| 8 6 to 8 6, «| 810 to 8 10 810 to 81 0 0to0 0 0 0to00 5 10ito 5 194} 5 9jtob 9} | 6 6toB8 5 6 51065 48 9 to 489 48 9 toi8 9 | 33 0t0330/33 0 to330 -| 31 O0 t034 6 34 0 to34 6 | 88 Oto 34 6 |34 O t034 6 «| 25 & to 25 6 26 .0 to26 0 55 0to550'55 0 10550 Beerbonm\u2019s Report.Cargoes off coast, wheat, quiet; corn, nil Cargoes on passage and for shipment, wheat and corn, quiet.Liverpool wheat spot, buyers hold off, hoping for some concession; do corn, spot, slow.Liverpool mixed maize, 58 9d.Canadian peas, 68 6d.The Liverpool public cable says : Wheat quiet; demand poor, holders offer moderately; corn edasy, emand poor.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 LATE SPORTING NEWS.Continued from Page Two.Manhattan Athletic Club\u2019s crack, He was willing to make the match for $1000 upward, the contests to take place in this country or England.In reply Con- neff said that he was not at all opposed to running Darrin and he would consider the proposition, Conneff is going to Bpend the holidays with his relatives in Ireland.In the spring he will issue challenges to Morton, Parry and Kibble- waite the crack English amateur runners, If they refuse to turn profession- «als, which will be necessary in order to meet Conneff, heÿwill accept ithe offer made by Darrin\u2019s, backers, A race between these two knights of the cinder path would cause no small amount of interest on both sides of the Atlantic and the probabilities are that some new records would be made.fears BASEBALL.The News Comes That the Twelve Club League 1s a Surety, Caicaco, Dec.12\u2014From National League sources cowes the news that the twelve-club league is now a surety.It is claimed that both Baltimore and Wash ington have actually secared agreements to take franchises in the new league and bave made arrangements to withdraw from the American Association when the proper time comes.It is also declared that the Wagner brothers, who own the Athletic club, are ready, despite their denials, to consolidate with the Phila- delphial ague club when the new dea is made, St.Louis is to be forced int» the new league, as when the work is completed there will be no o.her place for Von der Ahe\u2019s team to play, unless be should join the Western League.Presidents Byrne, of Brooklyn, and Robison, of Cleveland, are doing the work for the National League, and from - them is said to come the move to buy a controlling interest in the Milwaukee club.Columbus is put down as safe by the reorganizers.The internal strife in the Brookiyn clubs caus: d through Gus Abell\u2019s friendship for Mike McDonald and Joba Congdon, who practically own the local :sscciation club.The new scheme provides; for the reimbursement of the money spent by the Chicago association people and the pardon of Fred Pfeffer, who, if he will, 18 to resume his place at second base on the Chicago league team.Strangely enough the Baltimore, Boston and Athletic people deny the stories and declare that the association is to remain in the field with eight clubs.The Milwaukee movement is algo said to be in the interest of the association, it having been decided to drop Milwaukee out of the 1892 circuit.All around the baseball situation is perplexing and a great deal of unueces- sary decaption is being attemptad by one or the other wing of magnates.ce FOOTBALL, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Champion Team.Toronto, Dec, 12\u2014The annual meeting of the Osgoode Hall Rugby Football Club was held in the students\u2019 room at Osgoode Hall yesterday afternoon, Mr.E.C, Senkler, president, being in the chair.After adopting a constitution tor the club and reading the various reports, the main business of the meeting the election of officers for the ensuing year, waa proceeded with, and r-sulted as follows: Hon, president, Hume Blake; president, W.A.H.Kerr; vice- president, J.F.Smellie; secretary, W ¥.Moran; treasurer, Percy Manning; committee, J.G.McKay, H.Pops and C.Farrel.Messrs.J.S.Johnston and J.H.Senkler were appointed delegate: to the Ontario Union meeting this afternoon with instructione to oppose changing the number of players and to support the proposition of having both referee and umpire, one to watch the ball, the other to watch the players; also to support amendment 13 and the addition to the five-yard rule.\u2014 TROTTING.The Canadian Circuit, Horsemen generally are pleased with the Canadian Ice Trotting Association circuit recently arranged.The dates as already published in The Herald are most satisfactory, as no time need be be lost in going from one track to another, Montreal opens up the sport with à three days\u2019 meet in Feb., commencing on the ninth.Ottawa follows with four days, Feb.16, 17, 18 and 19, and Hall claims Feb.23, 24,25 aad 27.The horses will then proceed to Ogdensburg where a week\u2019s trotting will likely be held, and the wind up will be in M nt- real at the Driving Park.Some Big Purses.Delegates from the Western Southern trotting circuit at Chicago, arranged the following program for next year; Aggregate Purses, Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug.9 to 18.$ 50,000 Chicago, Ill., Aug.15 10 20.0.000.c00e 50,000 Independence, Iowa, Aug.22 to 27,.100,000 81, Paul, Minn, Aug.29 to Bept.3.3000 Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept.5to1l., - 30,000 Richmond, Ind., Sept.12 to 17.« 20,000 Cambridge City, Iowa, Sept 19 to 24.000 20 Terre Haute, Ind., Sept.25 to OCt.1, er 30,00 St.Louis, Mo., Oct, 3 to 8.000 Nashville, Tenn., Oct.17 to 22, ,000 Columbia, Tenn., Oct.24 t0 29., 100,000 TOtAl.es uvnrerereerenrnssensersasens es 560,000 The entrance fee in every case will be \u201cbut five per cent, which will be an inducement sufficient to draw the best class of horses.Arr MISCELLANEOUS, He Might as Well Take a Dose of Polson at Once.New York, Dec.12.\u2014-Samuel Kalisky, he champion cigarette smoker, of Bos- tom, arrived in this city yesterday.He called at The Police Gazette office an - left a challeuge to.smoke cigarette: against any man in America for $250 à ide and the championship of America.The contest to be limited to one hour -moking.Kalisky bas a record of smok- ng 32 in one hour.He accomplished bat feat when he defea'ed James Smith in a match for $200, winning by three cigarettes.The challenge is open for two weeks.St.Paul Kid Heard From, SPECIAL TO THE HERALD, New York, Dec.12\u2014The following was received from Jimmy Kennard, the St.Paul Kid, who is anxious to arrange a match with Billy Phmmer for $5000, at The Police Gazette office yesterday from Buffalo, N.Y.: The club having received your letter have to say we will come to Norton\u2019s terms\u2014will fight Plimmer for $2500 a gide before the club giving the largest purse.Will give Arlinton Club a purse of $1000.Notify Charley Norton, Plim- mer\u2019s backer, and see if they will give us any kind of show of his man fighting me, and Barney Fassett will come on and put the first deposit on of $1000 with The Police Gazette.We mean business, and do not believe the opposite side does.Now, Piimmer is looking for the 110-pound championship.1 am the champion for $5000 or more, and whipped every man I ever fought a finish fight with, Now, anybody who thinks I am not can win $5000 or more of Buffalo\u2019s money.Open to Any 140-Pouud Man, SPEOIAL TO THE HERALD, Nrw York, Dec.12.\u2014The following challenge was received at The Police Gazette office yesterday, from Roanoka, Va.: Iunderstand that Tommy Ryan, of Chicago, is anxious to fight Jack Dempsey, I will fight Ryan at 140 pounds, before any club, for a purse, 75 per cent.to the winner and 25 per cent.to the loser, I have had a few fights, and my record is just as good as Ryan's.1 fought and defeated Reddy Gallagher in 17 tounds at Lima, O.; knocked out Joe Tangey in Birmingham, Ala.; fought Frank Griffin in Roanoke and knocked him out in two rounds, Records don\u2019t cut a figure, but I mean business.I will fight any 140-pound man ia America, Police Gazette rules to govern.» S.LAYTON, A Chance for Warren.SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.Nw York, Dec.12 \u2014The following Wes received at The Police Gazette office yesterday, from Galveston, Tex.: Please state for me that I will fi,ht Tommy Warren again to prove to the public and my friends that I can fight when I am in geod trim.I bave fought Warren twice, once to a draw, and in the last battle beaten when I was more dead than alive.I am open to fight any 118- pound man in America.L Pror.Ernest M.BesCHER, be LE _ REFER [LE \u201cI have been deep! interested in the investie ation ofyour method of treatment, @ particularly that portion prescribed in your \u201c\u2018Treatise for Men Qnly.\u201d I am con ; vince That your treat- men, for impotency and decay in males is the best known to the medical profession.1 shall recommend it in my practice, and you can refer to me at any time, should you deem it proper.\u201d The writer of above 13 a practicing physician and unknown to us, We have scores of similar letters on file.It ree fers to our wonderful system of trea ment by which the y = HEALTH OF MEN le Easily, Quickly, Permanently Restored, ®{Veakness, Nervousness, Debil« ity, and all the train of evils from early errors or later excesses, the results of overwork, sickness, worry, ete.Full strength, development, and tone given to every organ and portion of the body, Simple, natural methods.Immediate improvement seen.Failure impossible, 2,000 references.Book, explanations and proofs mailed (sealed).free.Ads ess ERIE MEDICAL CO., * \u201cBUFFALO.N.Y.1* LQURANCE National Assurance COMPANY OF IRELAND ESTABLISHED A.D, 1822 CAPITAL - 85 000,000 Fire Insurances arranged in almost every description of property at moderate rates JAMES BOURNE, Special City Agent BEAD OFFICE FOR CANADA : 79 ST, FRANCOIS XAVIER-ST, M ontrea Matthew C.Hinshaw, Branch Manager UNION Lo Assurance - Society London, Gi.B.instituted In the Reign Queen Arne .D, 1714.rorar Yrs EXCEED TWO aud a QUARTER MILLIONS STERG FIRE RISKS accepted on -every Jescription of property at current ra T.L.MORRISSEY, Resident Manager for Canada, 55St* Francois Xavier-street FIRE - LIFE - MARINE G.Ross Robertson & Sons GENEBAL INSURANCE AGENTS AND BROKERS, ESTABLISHED 18685.No 11 Hospital-st,, Montreal 8 Special Facilities for Placing Large Lines quitable Rates.Reliable Companies IMPERIAL Fire Insurance Company (ESTABLISHED 1303, Subscribed Capitai.$6,000,000 Total Invested Funds .$8 000,000 A gencles for Insurance against fire losse in the principal towns of the Dominion, Oanadisn Branch Offices.COMPANY'S BUILDING, 107 St.James Street, Montreal, E D LACY® Resident Manager 10r Oanada PHENIX INSURANCE COMPANY fH d.Cash Capital artford.Conn $3,000 00 Canada Branch Head Office 14 ST, JAMES STREET; 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SNS The Hlontceal Feral.BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.By Mall, in Advance, Pestage Pald, Daily edition, one yeaT.ce.ccivecese $6 00 Six MONINS.0110000000c000c0000008 825 Three months.178 Per month.ccovveietenncesircecsracese 60 Weekly edition, one copy, per year.1 00 Specimen copies sent free.Remittances can be made either by draft, express, post-office order, or im registered otter at our risk.RATES (OF ADVERTISING, AGATE MEASURKMENT\u2014]{ LINES TO THE INCH Ordinary advertisements, 10 cents per line Advertisement appearing under the head- g 01 * special notice 25 per cent, advance above rates, Reports of meetings 15 cents per ine.Reading Notices, 25 cents per line, Births, Marriages and Deaths, 50 cents each assertion.All contracts for advertising for deflu yeriods made at reduced rates.TELEPHONES Business Office \u2014 Bell 343: Federal 1012 Editorial Rooms\u2014Bell 751.Feder al 10 MONDAY MORNING DEC 14 A aooD MANY people think the extraordinary fine weather we are having is unseasonable.Bo it is, perhaps; but it will lighten the coal bill considerably.\u2014 Tae pro1ESTATIONS Of Tory organs to the contrary notwithstanding, the report 18 per-istently repeated from Ottawa that \u2018the Minister of Justice has made a report to the Government recommending the disallowance of the Mines and Minerals Act passed at the last session of the Quebec Legislature.2 AT LEAsT one Tory organ in Canada objects to retaliation by the Dominion on Newfoundland.The London Free Press says: \u201cIt is hard to see what is to be gained by erforcing the tariff against Newfoundland fish.It is bardly within the power of the Dominion to coerce the ancient colony on this basis, were such a thing in contemplation.\u201d That paper points out that commercially Newfoun3- land is as independent as Canada, that she only belongs to Canada geographically, and that attempting to coerce her by tariff retaliation will simply snuff out the element of union feeling which has had a lingering existence.We had better leave Newfoundiand alone.De YESTERDAY WAS a red-letter day for St.Gabriel Presbyterian Church \u2014the opening Sabbath of another quarter of a century in the bistory of that congregation.Tt would be a wonderful, and yet by no means impossible, thing if Dr, Campbell should be spared to celebrate his golden ecclesiastical wedding.The services yesterday\"were of a'special character and eminently suited to the occasion.The end of a period of twenty-five years is to everybody a very long time to which to look forward ; when the years have fled the time seems very shor: indeed.No doubt many people who attended 8t Gabriel Charch yesterday realized this \u201cvery fully.The citizens of Montreal, ot all de- nominatioas, will z ad.y juin in wishing Dr.Campbell and his congregation another prosperous period of twenty-five years.fen THE CORRESPONDENCE on the La Verite libel case, which we publish elsewhere, places that episode before the public in a light very different from that describ>d by those Tory organs which have been diligently painting Mr.Tardival as a hero and a martyr, and Premier Mercier as a morster of the Middle Ages\u2019 period.Legitimate criticiam is quite .proper ; to withhold it when plain speaking is necessary would be a crime against the public.But making or insinuating grave charges against public men without a scintilla of evidence to support them, or making them on the authority of people who cannot always be held responsible for what they say, or whose credibility is not seriously entertained, is quite a different matter, and some of Premier Mercier\u2019s most vicious assailants are in a fair way of finding out that that kind of journalistic criticism has no standing In the courts.\u2014 SECTIONAL REPRESENTATION.The member for West Assiniboia evidently has not yet lost hope of succeeding Mr.Dewdney in the Dominion Cabinet, The Regina Leader, which is supposed fo vcice the opinions of Mr.Davin, scouts the idea that Mr Meredith is to go into the Department of the Interior when he enters the Cabinet, It says: \u201cMr.Abbott must know what this country has suffered from haying men at the head of the Department of the Interior who knew nothing whatever About the Northwest.Moreover, bringing in a man from outside, even though Mr.Dewdrcey was a Western man, d\u2019d rot work very well, How would the Maritime Provinces feel if a manfrom Ontario was chosen to be Minister of Marine and Fisheries and brought in from outside the House a; that?And 1t must be remembered as a minister Mr.Meredith has his spurs to win.He is a nice fellowand a pleasing speaker, but that is all that at present can be said ef him as a statesman.\u201d Not only ia this damning Mr.Meredith with faint praise but it is a plain hint to the Premier that so long as My.Davin ig available the Interior ports folio must not go to an Eastern man.Other things being equal, it would, of course, be desirable to have a Western man for that position; but past experience has shown that concessions to sectionalism of this kind have not operated advantageously either to the sections whose claims were recognized to the exclusion of better cabinet material, or to the country at large.The principle\u2014 we should rather say prejudice\u2014 will die bard, but if the country is to bave the services of the best men it can produce, as Cabinet Ministers, then the best men must be taken whors- ever they can be got.Recognition ot this sectional principle in the selection of Cabinet Ministers was perhaps unavoidable in the earlier years of Confederation.Havingattained our major!- ty, we should get over weaknesses of this kind.Until we do we shall never have a really united country.a THAT SCAVENGING BUSINESS.We are really a little nervous about that scavenging contract.The prospect of having to provide daily for the carting away of our own ashes is somewhat depressing.We have gently hinted to our help the desirability of wheeling them out into the counwry in a baby carriage, and bad to take refuge in our own proper sanctum and lock the door in order to escape her wrath.We are thus driven back on oyr own resources and our first idea of getting up very early and surreptitiously conveying them on to our neighbor's lot in a grip sack seems to be the only practicable way out.Bat our neighbor is a big man and an angry one too, and a cold shiver runs down our back at the bare Idea of being caught at the trick.Another idea that strikes us as a practical way out of the trouble, is, just to go on taking no notice and putting out our refuse as usual.It will certainly take ten years to educate all citizens into the proper way of dividing their stuff and the corporation can\u2019t be hard on us just at first.The proverb says \u201cit isdifficult to teach an old dog new tricks\u201d and there are a good many old dogs in the city who \u201c wi Trather objectito paying taxes and then - doing their own \u2018scavenging.After all,* that will_be the best way,as it will take a battalion of inspectors to poke their: noses into every barrel every night.Oar only dread of detection will be from that confounded old party who comes and upsets our precious barrel over the door steps every night in the vain hope of finding some silver spoons or other trifles of the family plate that get into such receptacles by accident, We bave tried in vain to drive her away and even invoked the powerful aid of the policeman on beat when we have found a particularly nasty mess at our front door, but the old party simply laughs at us and flourishing a license in our face, which as a sori of charity empowers her (or him) to spread the filth all over the street.Our dread is lest Mr.St.George shouli give these licensees some small stipend and regularly emist the gang as inspectors to see that the barrels are filled according to Cocker.This would be a sad block to our schemes and so we are forced to throw ourselves upon the pity of our aldermen who will surely shrink from the spectacle of a portly good looking middle aged gentleman trundling out a wheelbarrow to Back River every morning with al.the ashes of his home.\u2014_\u2014 A QUESTION OF FINANCE.In connection with the financing of the city loan we recently called attention to the unbusiness like methods of the Finance Committee in hawking their exchange around to a favored few, instead of inviting tenders in the open market.Then the answer was that the city had made profit by the transaction and there was a8 much cackling over it as the political exigency organs are making over the new-laid-egg-trade.Once more the city has been on the market to sell exchange and this time there is no chuckling over a profit, for it is well known that they sold the cable transfer to the Hochelaga Bank at lower than the market quotations of the day.It is true the loss is not a heavy one, but still itis an amount that thousands of respectable workingmen in the city would be glad to accept as a half year\u2019s wages.There are some people malicious enough to see a striking coincidence in the fact that the chairman of the Finance Committee and the president of the bank are one and the same person, but for our own part we do not attach any importance to that.Itis the principle of the transaction that we blame.All exchange dealers are taxpayers and should have an equal chance of tendering for anything in their line that is required.Why the chairman of the Finance Committee should be empowered to buy or sell the city exchange in his own store.any more than any Alderman should be empowered to buy supplies for the city use at his own establishment, is more than we can see.The actual business upon which we are comténting is email, hat the pre- | cedent is of great importance, The law as to aldermen being interested in civic contracts, diractly or indirectly, 18 very severe, and it would be rather amusing if this shuffling of exchange should lead to an exchange of aldermen in an eastern ward.Do your business correc:ly, gentlemen.Even the Dominion Govera- ment set you an example in this exchange business, and if you follow it you will hear less grumbling and save the city a few dollars as well.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014w>-@-\u2014 FALSIFYING AS WELL AS EVADING.HAMILTON SPECTATOR: The Spectator } has not evaded the question at all.The original proposition\u2014that which The Herald has sought, but unsuccessfully, to controvert \u2014was that the Conservabives had not increased the burden of taxation, but had removed ; duties from the necessaries of life while in- | creasing them upon luxuries ; and it added that no Canadian need pay any taxes at ali | to the Dominion Govermmen: unless he .chooses to do so.The Spectator is not only evading the question, it is also falsifying the facts of the situation.Wien it says that the Conservatives have not increased taxation it simplv denies the facts contained in the Blue Books.The Customs taxation of Canada in 1879 was $12,939,000 or $3.12 per head of the population; in 1890 it was $24,000,000 or $4.60 per ead.In the face of so plain a fact why will the Hamilton paper persist in repnating the fallacy that taxation bas not been increased.Why talk of free sugar with a duty on refined of 80 cents per 100 pounds.That tax does not go into the Dominion treasury; it goes to the highly protected refiner, but is a tax paid by consumers nevertheless.What rubbish it is to say that * no man need pay any taxes at all to the Dominion Government unless he chooses to do so.\u201d If it were possible for Canadians to get along without using\u2019 any imported goods subject to customs duty, they wculd still have to pay the tariff tax \u2014not to the Domihion Government, it is true, but to the protected producer, That is tou plain to require argument ; it is a self evident fact, otherwise there is no meaning or utility in a pr.tective tariff A THE \u201cME TOO\u201d POLICY.It has been snnounced that Mr, George Taylor, M.P., for South Leeds, Out., wili again introduce bis alien labor bill at the next session of Parliament.Why should we imitate the Americans in this matter ?We have denounced their alien labor bill as unwise in policy, vicious in principle, unjust and to a cere tain extent ridiculous in its practical operations, Why should we adopt and attempt to enforce a policy which we condemn on the part of the Americans ?Must Canada do wrong and ridiculous things in order to retaliate upon her neighbors?The proposal would be ridiculous were it not that it involves a principle fraught with danger to the country.Perhaps the Americans can afford to indulge in retaliatory tactics of this kind ; we cannot.They are 65,000,000 people, we are only 5,000, 000; and when two nations with such vast disparity in population and wealth indulge in a retaliatory war of any kind the weaker will be pretty certain to go to the wall.The United States persist in maintaining an abnormally high protective tariff, and straightway our Canadian Tories think we must perform the \u201cme too\u201d act and add a fow rails to our tariff fence\u2014practically allowing our tariff to.be dictated from Washington.The proper course for the public men of Canada to pursue is to base their policy and actions on sound and just principles, no matter what the Urited States may do.Protection is not based on eithar\u2014no matter whether that protection be embodied in a trade tariff or an alien labor law.We cannot afford to perpetrate any such acts of petty meanness as the Americans have done under their alien labor law.Could not somebody by means of a surgical operation introduce some common-sense into the cranium of Mr.George Taylor ?If that is not practicabla the Conservative party must call upon Premier Abbott to suppress him.\u2014 THE VOICE OF THE PRESS, Solemniy Warning Premier Abbott, Compton County Chronicle, We ehould be £orry to utter a disrespectful word of Mr.Abbott :\u2014we'should regret to be interpreted as intending to throw any doubt on the Premier's fealty to the cause of Conservatism, or to insin- vate that he is indifferent to the fate of the party inthe Eastern Townships cours ties : but it is obvious that he has not grasped the situation.In other words he does not realize what a tremendous risk he is running by his declared intention to exclude the 'Lownships from special representatioff in his cabinet, Ha makes a mistake\u2014one go generous as to amount to a crime against the party that he leade.We tell him there is a great disaster in view.The party needs a leader to organize and direct it, and it is utterly absurd for him to think that a vicarious leadership such as he proposes to substitute for that we have heretofore had will keep the party in the Eastern Townships together.Getting Very Tifed of It, Quebec Chronicle.People have ceased to make guesses as to the result.The long delay in arriving at a conclusion, has taken the heart out of the whole business.Meanwhile, public affairs are at a standstill.That the Houses of Legislatare will meet about the end of the month, is, however, à foregone conclusion.But the session may last only a day or two, The law will be constitutionally kept, if the Parliament of Quebec merely meets and adjourns, and that will probably be the upshot of the matter, unless, indeed, the Government is dismissed.Then, we will have general elections at once.In the meantime, everybody is anxious to see the end, no matter how it may go.All this suspense is absurd, In the face of the gireamatances.which are patent to every- ody.An Unwise Policy.St.John Telegraph.The policy of retaliation against New- foundlaad may Lave present apparent justification, but it is likely to lead to conimercial war between that colony and Canada.The trouble grows out of the interference of our Government to prevent Newfoundland arranging a system of reciprocal trade with the United States.Our trade with the island ig nct now very great, our imports therefrom being last year $109,711 and our exports thereto $1,185,739.In 178 our trade in that direction was nearly twice as gieat.Is This Veiled Treason ?Irish Canadian, , We are told that reciprocity of trade between Canada and the United States would lead to annexation.We are \u201chot sure such would be the case ; but we tell The Empire aod the Tory howlers for the \u201cold fla.\u2019 \u2018hat unless the freedom | of the A mer.can market be given to our farmers under a treaty of reciprocity, th.day is pot distaot when the farmers of Canada will scatter the advocates o° restriction and poverty to the four winds of heaven, and enable the men and women within its gates to work out under the new and better conditions the great destiny which shall be hers\u2014of being the bome of millions of contented and prosperous people, with her portals open THE MONTREAL HERALD Ttis à certain and speed .Cold Ln he Head nd Ca mess Soom, Cranes AHR hstas?Relief, Permanent Cure, Failure Impossible.symptoms, shave Catarct, snd th Tore nf e fol ed by consumption and death.pd Bla is wold by all ta, or will be sent, post on receipt 0 (60 cents and -00) by FULFORD & CO,, % Brockvlile, Ont.RE \u2014\u2014\u2014 = for the oppressed of eyery race and every clime.Forced to Withdraw.Stratford Beacon, There is noman in Canada the Tories more bitterly hate than Sir RicbariCart- wright, and it is perfectly safe to assume that even if they had a tittle of evidence in support of their charge they would have hunted him down to his political \u2018death withont a moments consideration, That they are compelled to withdraw their petition and pay the full costs attaching thereto not oniy indicates the hollowness of the charges, but brings into greater prominence thanever the purity of Bir Richard Cartwrights publie life, which, like his private life, has never before been assailed.This unsuccessful attack upon Sir Richard will endear him more than ever to the Liberals, who will love him the more for the enemies he has.The Value of Free Trade.Toronto Globe.Free traders fully agree with the red parlor that unresticted commercial intercourse with the United States would give the Canadian consumer the beneñt of cheaper factory goods; and to go no further it is apparent from The Empirs\u2019s cemmercial columns from day to day that it would also ensure better prices for many of the commodities produced by Canadian farmers,who in 1881 formed 56 per cent of the population.In short, it would make us partakers in the commercial and industrial life of tbe continent to which we belong, and members of the largest single free trading area of the earth; whereas we are now Isolated and blockaded as if by armed men and ships of war, to the infinite loss and detriment of the community a8 writ large in the census.\u2014 PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.The Princess Victoria Mary of Teck is handsome enough fo win any man by the mere force of her personal charms, and sensible enough to appear entirely innocent of being the beauty of the royal family.* x * Colonel Joseph E.Pepper, of Lexington, who is one of the best authorities on the subject, says that the day of moonshiners in Kentucky is passed, and that tbe era of straight goods has open- e .nt There was an interesting party at the bouts of Mr.and Mrs.John Jacob Astor, on Fifth-avenue, New York, on Wednesday, when the baby that was born on Nov.16 was christened by the Rev.Dr.Houghton, He was called William, for his grandfather, and Mrs.William Astor and Lispenard Stewart, who was best man at the wedding, were his godparents.Mr.and Mrs, Willing, grandparents of the baby, were also present, with others of the family.xx Of course, it is true that Jean Allioli, a wealtby French gentleman, bas run away from his grand Parisian home and is now working as a laborer, shoveling dirt at $1.25 a day, on the Chicago fair grounds, but it doesn\u2019t follow that he is insane.He was only suffering from a morbid desire t> get his mame in the papers.-* The Shah of Persia drinks a bottle of brandy a day and hits the pipe like a Race street sybarite.x *k® Professor Hyde, of Bowdoin College, is bitterly opposed to the cigarette habit and is giving the students smoking hot lactures on the subject of the dudish habit Ry* For seventeen years the Prince of Wales has been Grand Master of the English Grand Lodge of Free Masons and is under no fear of not being renominated for the office this month, * * + Lord Lytton had a magmficent salary and large allowances, but his dying in poverty only emphasizas the old atory that no British Ambassador to France can live in Paris, and keep ap the dignity of the establishment, unless he has a private income as large as his salary and is willing to spend every cant of it, besides mortgaging his family estates.\u201d%x ® King Oscar, of Sweden, likes to collect autographs, and is particularly pleased when he can come across a good poem which its author has adorned with his name.* = ® Jobn Sherman's porirait is honofed with a place amon; the pictures of the great financiers of the world which adorn the walls of the Governor's room in the Bank of England.tls.*¢ Crowns Them AIL\u201d The * Bell\u201d Pianos and the ° Beli\u201d Organs are the most popular and most desirable instruments of the day.The styles of cases are new, unique, and attract more than ordinary attention.The Bell Pianos and Organs possess every valuable improvement known to the musical worid.Immense shipments continually arriving at the wholesale and retail distributing offices of Willis & Co., sole agents, 1824 Notre Dazne-street, near McGill-strest, Montreal.A Step in Advance, High priced food for infants has been a source of great anxiety to parents who have to bring up thelr infants upon it Dyer\u2019s Improved Food for Infants is made from pure pearl barley, is easily digested and only costs 25c.Try it.Druggist keep it W.A.Dyer & Co, Montrea STRAIGHT SCOTCH WHISKY, Or what is termed 1n the trade, a SELF or ENTIRE Whisky, We carry in stock only two brands of \u201cStraight \u201d Highland Malls, but they are undoubtedly the two best to be had.They are The *\u2018Lagavulin\u2019 Specially Selected AND \u201cLong John\u2019s\u2019\u2019 Dew of Ben Nevis.Both STRAIGHT Scotch Whiskies, ene the product of the Lagavulin Distillery, on the 1sland of Islay; the other the product of Donald P.McDonald\u2019s Distillery at Fort Wilham, near Inverness, and popularly Known as Long Joha\u2019s Dew of Ben-Nevis.50 cases Long John Straight Scotch Whisky, 50 casse Lagavuin Straight Scotch Whisky.ug In BLENDED Highland Mait Whiskies we havo a lot of reliable brands, and there is no doubt the popular taste appears to be for BLENDED WHISKIES.SEE OUR LIST._ All the popular and reliable brands.King William the IV Very Old Pale Specia Liqueur Scotch, $1.50 per bottle, $17 per case Sherrif?s Extra Selected X.X.O Islay .Blended Whisky, $1.25 per bottle, $13.50 per case.Sherrit&s V.O.Very Old Islay Whisky.Sherriff\u2019s Old Islay Whisky.Walker's Kilmarnok Whiskey \u2018Walker's Kilmarnock Whisky.Andrew Usher's Grand Old Highland \u2018Whisky, $1.10 per bottle, $12.50 per dozen.The Royal Blend Whisky.The Glenmahra Whisky.The Gleñrosa Whisky.Stewart\u2019s Five Star Glen Albyn Blend Whisky.$1 per bottle, $11 per dozen.The Inverawe Blend Whisky, $1 per bottle, $11 per dozen.The Gaelic Whisky, Old Smuggler brand.&c., &c., &c, FRASER, VIGER & CO.- CHRISTMAS WINES.Lay in Your Stock Now for the Christmas Holidays.HIGH-CLASS CHAMPAGNES.All the popular and reliable baands, The Pommery Champagnes.Case of Case of 12 bots.24 bots.uarts.pints.Pommery Sec.cerns 53000 $33 00 Fommery Extra Sec.s.\u2026.\u2026.3400 36 00 Moet & Chandon\u2019s White Seal, 30 00 320) Moet & Chandon\u2019s Brut Im- Perlal.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.0srscunsecce0ee 34 00 33 00 Irroy 1884 Grand Extra Dry.30 00 32 00 Irroy 1884 Brut Special.30 00 32 QU Delbeck Extra Dry or Brut.31 00 33 0) PerrierJouet Extra DrySpecial 3] 00 33 ON G.H.Mumm\u2019s Extra Dry,1884 .31 00 33 00 Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, \u201cYellow Label,\u201d dry.> 3 posi Boma Ashes 4 2 6 2 20 322 23 578 Pork.2 Lard.8 A Eggs.Hams ete.,.3 3 Tinned Meats Cees a.ather, rolls 108 ë Raw hides 1* ©, Hu 1 Spirits.62 \u2018eee 62 Tobacco, ,.40 \u201cees 40 Dress'd ho 487 698 H83 Oatmeal.cone ees shee Petroleum, \u201cee oe Whisky.fallow.D .Beef .sane .\u201coe Hogs.eons .e « Meats.so.cane a .\u2014\u2014\u2014 The Week\u2019s Receipts.G.T.R.C.P.R.Total, Wheat, bush,.56,70) 12,302 69,0.2 Gorn, Push.ees a.cies \u2026\u2026.eas, bush.450 13,371 13.821 Oats, bush 7,350 6,590 15940 Barley, bu 2,575 2129 3,704 Rye,bugh., \u201ces \u201cens 566 569 Flour, bris.3,225 18,396 16,821 Matmeal, bbls.ees eee cee eal, brls, .830 452 1,232 Ashex.7 % LE Butter, pcks.1,738 1,445 8.18} Cheese, boxes, 1,302 740 2,042 Pork, bbls.75 5 3) Eggs, eases 866 [YP 863 Lard, tierces.FN cee \u201cive Beef, tcs.A Cees a Ham, Bacon pga.15 cee 15 Canned Mealts.,,.41 cea 41 Dressed bogs,.\u201cee 1,342 2,040 3,332 Tallow, tes.coos \u201ceas cian Leather, rolls 635 295 931) Raw hides'., 522 \u2026\u2026.522 \u2018Whickey, casks.,.Cees fees ones SPITitS.01.a esscn 0 431 8 439 Tobacco, pcka.322 Cane 322 Petroleum, bbls.,.303 303 Montreal Stocks in Store.Dec.12,91 Dec.5,'91 Dec 13, \"9 Wheat 267,171 231,59 153.803 doi 235.065 63,727 253,034 257,700 50.042 9,1 7°787 12.807 44.978 26,671 37.304 2 139 125 Grain.While the market could not well be much duller it is said that bad roads and unseasonable weather are keeping back business that might otherwise be done.The whole ligt is almost nominal with a softer tendency.We quote No.2 hard wheat $1.01 to 1,08; No.3 bard, 94 to 95¢; No.1 porthern $1.00 to 1.02\" feed barley, 47 to 48c; malting barley, 56 to 60c; peas, 76¢ to 78¢ afloat ; corn, duty paid, 70 to 72¢; buckwheat, 55 to 56¢; rye, 90 to 92¢; oats, No.2, 35 to 36¢.eset sls.Flour Baturday was rather quieter as to deliveries, but there is no change in the situation.We quote: Winter patents, $5.05 @ b 30 ; spring patent, $5.15 @5.35; straight rollers, $4.70@ 4.90; extra, $4.35 @ 4.45; superfine, $4.00 @ 4.25; fine, $3.60 @ 3.75; city strong bakers, $5(@5.10; Manitoba, bakers, $4.75 @5.00; Ontario bags, extra, $2.10@2.20; superfine, $2@2.10.Oatmeal, etc.Tigre The market continues quiet but steady at unchanged rates.Wa quote: Granulated and rolled oats $4.65@ 4.75 per brl, $2.27} (@2.32} per bag; stani- ard and fine oatmeal, $4.45 to 4.55 per bri, $2.173 to 2224 per bag; pot barley, $¢ per brl, $1.90@1 95 per bag; pearl barley, No.1, $7.25 per brl, $3.75 per half brl; No.2, $6.75 per brl, $3.50 per ha!f brl, $2.90 per pocket 49 lbs; $2 per pocket 45 bs.Gold dust cornmeal, $4.50 to $4 75 per brls; split peas, $4.00 per brl Provisions, &c.Market moving along quietly with fair cemand for barreled pork and many complaints of unseasomable weather keeping back trade.We quote: Heavy Canada short cui mess, $16@16.50; Canada choice family pork $16; Canada short cut clear pork $15; western mess pork, $13.50@ 14; Chicago extra clear, $15@15.50; Plate beef, $15@15.25; city cured hams 10}@lle; breakfast bacon, 10@L0}c ; dry salt flanks, 7c; lard comp., 20 Ib pails, $1.45@1.50, Butter, There is no change to report.Wholesale business is quiet, but there is a good jobbing demand for the city and local trade.Late makes creamery are quoted: at 23 to 24c; earlier makes about lc less.Townships dairy, 18 to 21c; western, 154 to 17¢; Kamouraska, 16 to 17c; Morris- burg, 17 to 20c.Cheese, There is no change, buyers are holding off, and the trade passing is light and little improvement is expected at present.Finest is quoted 103 to 11c, and mediums 104 to 104c.rer Dressed Hogs, The continuance of soft weather is against sellers and keeps the market weak, Car lots are offered at $5.25 to 5.50 and jobbing lots, $5.50 to 5.60, Dressed Poultry, Receipts fre increasing and sales have been made for shipment to British Columbia and the Lower Provinces at good prices for selected stock.Chickens have sold largely on spot at from 6t» 8c, as to condition.Turkeys are selling fairly at 9 to 10c; ducks, 8 to 9c; geese, 6to Tic.tlt : Hay and Straw.Arrivals of stock are getting lighter and demand keeps very fair.There is no little chafogabout the ice bridge, and the stock that ië going to Swamp the market as soon as it forms, but it isu\u2019; thera yet and prices keep up outside prices for choice stock being pretty readily obtainable.We quote : Lo se bay $7.50 tn $3.5 1, nressed L:y, $8.50 to $950; straw, $5 to 20.Bigs.Fresh stock continuez in light supp'y aod full prices are obtained £ r any such arrivirg.Really fresh laid bring very high figures but are not vlen'y enough i or regular enougn in supply to make a ;merket quotaiion.Jimod stock sells | at 15 to JGe.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Montreal Horse Market, Report of the Montreal Horse Exchange, Point St.Charles.The recaipts Continued on Bage Two, FPS aur Fw, co 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Agents for United States and Canada.- -SLEIGHS - - - The Montreal Herald Daily $6.00 Per Annum.Weekly $1.00 Per Annum.ESTABLISHED 1808.ar « & PUBLISHED BY « THE HERALD COMPANY (LIMITED) = © No.6 BEAVER HALL HILL The Most Enterprising Paper = fn the Dominion.An Exclusive Telegraphic « = Service The Latest Fi- - - nancial and Sporting - - News.Its - Commercial, Shipping - - and Market Keports\u2014 = « complete and reliable. \u2018BADLY STAMPED UPON REDUCED BY THE IRON HEEL OF THE CONDENSER, Local News is Scarce, but What There Was to Get is in This Column, A religious profession will take place at the Good Sbepherd\u2019s to-morrow morning.\u201c The new large organ for the Church of St.John the Evangelist is being put in position.\u201cPulpit notices\u201d will be discussed at this morving\u2019s meeting of the Protestant Ministerial Association.Alphonse Marcil, a Longueuil farmer, was fined $5 by the recorder on Saturday, for fast driving on Craig-street.Cote St.Louis is experiencing a good deal of trouble over the refusal of its mayor to act in his official capacity.Western Ontario newapapers contain the news that Mr.Charles A.F.Harrise, of this city, is seriously ill 1n Paria, Ont.A small blaze in Scanlan\u2019s foundry, 27 Queen street, at 12.45 Sunday mornivg, brou, ht out the brigade, The dumage was not heavy.A large variety of fine aud inexpensive articles specially suitable for Xmas prosents, at J.B.Williamson\u2019s, 1741 Notre Dame-street._ Cleaning, dyeing and repairing a specialty at M.J.Adler's, 47 Beaver Hall Hill.Parcels called for and delivered.Bell telephone 4861.There was a general rumor around the hotels on Saturday night that ex- Mayor Grenier will oppose Mayor McShane at the coming election.Yesterday was communion Sabbath in Erskine Presbyterian Church.five new members were added to the roll\u201412 by profession and 13 by certificate.Box 24 rang out the fire brigade at 12.13 a.m, Sunday, for a small blaze in the rear of Arthur Hetu\u2019s boot and shoe store, 209 8t.Lawrcnce street.Damage slight, Mgr.Fabre held an ordination service at the Cathedral yesterday morning at 6 o\u2019cleck and will officiate ata similar ceremony atthe Seminary on Saturday, Dec.19, A number of Montrealers leave for Coneord, Vt, this morning, to give evidence in the case of M.K.Brown, the sleeping car conductor, who is accused of smuggling.Tbe visi:ing governois for the present week to the Protestant House of industry and Refuge and to the Home at Longue Pointe are: Messrs.Joel C.Baker and Dr.G.Wilkins.Solomon Taylor, aged 23, fell down the Toist at the Turkish Baths yesterday afternoon, a distance of about 30 feet, and sustained internal injuries.He was 1aken to the General Hospital.\u2018Want to Get Her Out of Jall, In the Court of Queen\u2019s Bench, Saturday morning, an application was made for writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Mary Cummings, who was committed to jail for six months by the Recorder, on Oct.1.TLe application is taken on the ground that the commitment was illegal.elem.The Evening Paper Was Wrong.The Montreal Water and Power Co.deny the statement in The Witness in reference to the action of the S:sters of the Sacred Heart.This action, the com- Fany claims, is against a proposal to construct a dam at Isle Visitation, fully four .and one half miles below the company\u2019s water power.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 Home From the Bean Clty.Messrs.Bryce and Cheney, of the Canadian Express Co., arrived home from Boston on Saturday evening.It Is under- #tood that they were attending a meeting o f the shareholders of the company and tbat the question of the Grand Trunk Railway taking over the concern was discussed at length.What decision was errived at 1s hard to say.Saying Good Bye to Thelr Officers, Early yesterday morning, with hallelujahs and shouts of victory the, Montreal contingent of the Salvation army commenced a day of thanksgiving for the work which has been done by Staff-Capt.Marshall and Mrs Marshall.Those two pular officers have become great favorites in this city and province, having labored here during the past year, and are now being sent to a new field.Many affectionate farewells were said, and a good-bye barquet will be held to-night.Dongtions Acknowledged.The superintendent of the Pro\u2018estant House of Industry and Refuge acknow! ledges donations of clothing purchased at the Industrial Rooms Bazaar at the following prices : Mrs.Redpath, Terrace Bank, $16.60; the Misses Murray, Cote 8t.Antoine, $10; Mrs.Corse, $10; Mrs.Hague, $10; Mrs.Dow, $15; Mrs.W.W.Ogilvie, $10; A Friend, $5; Mrs.Van Horne, $12.30; Mrs.John McDou- gall, $10; Miss Benny, $10; Misg Orkney, $10; Mrs.Dr.Sutherland, $10; Mr.R.C.Jamieson, $10.presses Historical Tablets, An error was made in saying that these incriptions were adopted; the members present &t- 156 last meeting, Messrs.Beaudry, G.E, Hart and H.T.Martin,while considering the inscription for several tablets, had not fully agreed upon the suitable wording.The spot where Hackett fell, another for old Zon Church, to commemorate the Gavazzi affair, and one on old St.Ann\u2019s market #8 the former Parliamentary House, destroyed by fire in 1849,and another for the place where the Doric Club met in 1837, are under consideration, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 On Its Way to Vancouver, The return C.P.R.special for Vancouver left Halifax on Saturday, at 4.15, and was due at Montreal Junction early this morning There are 317 men and 26 officers on board, under command of Captain Eustace Roke.Mr, McNicoll, general passenger agent of the C.P.R., hag received a telegram from Halifax irom the officers of the special noval which arrived there on Saturday morning, expressing great satisfaction at the way they had been treated since leaving Vancouver, and their delight with the route, pres Endorsing Their Comrades\u2019 Action.At a regular meeting of L.A.7628, K, of L,, held in their hall yesterday afternoon, the following resolution was passed: We, the members of this assembly} now in gession, endorse the action taken by D.A, 18\u2019s Executive Board for the Twenty- | purpose of securing employment for the vnemployed workingmen of this city, and we hope the mayor and aldermen of this city will soon see their way clear to comply with the wishes of the delegation; also that a committee be appointed to attend the meeting of the City Council next Wednesday from this assembly.\u2014\u2014\u2014 One Way of Collecting Debts.A number of workingmen were around the water accountant\u2019s office at the City Hall on Saturday looking for an interview with Mr, Filteau in regard to the collection of water rates.They complain that instead of receiving their vay they had received receipted water accounts instead.In some cases the whole amount was taken off one week\u2019s pay, leaving the employee with nothing coming to him.One man stated that all his week\u2019s wages were stopped in this manner, and he had nothing with which to keep his seven children in food for this week.erie Taking Montreal as an Example.Chief Engineer Devlin and Clerk of Works Adams, of the Kingston penitentiary, went out to Outremont on Saturday to inspect the Montreal crematory.The consuming of the offal of the big building at the Limestone City and its many inmates has been a sourca of complaint for a long time.Bstn gentlemen appear to be thcr.ughly satisfied with our process of cremating, and will present a report to the Minister of Justice after they haye visited some of Montreal\u2019s big institutions with a view to obs:rving our imgrovemenis in plumbing, ventiiation, etc.An Interesting Decision.In the Court of Review, Saturday morning, 8 number of judgments were rendered.The first was in the case of Dumoulin vs.the City of Montreal, mis en cause, and Bourgoin & Co, arriere guarantie.The judgment of the court of first instance holding Bourgoin & Co., contractors, responsible for damages caused by iron columns which they left in the street while constructing the Per- reau't building on St.\\James-street, The plaintiff, Evangeliste Dumodlin, was driving on St.James-street on the night of November 14, 1888, when his horse ran against the columns, the vehicle was shattered and himself severely injured.He took action against the city, who called in Mr.Louis Perreault, who, in turn, called in his contractors.Witnesses testified that the columns had been left for nights on the street without any danger signal, and this the coart held to be guilty negligence.OCR Trying to Catch the Burglars.The following circular was issued on Saturday from the office of the chief of police : \u201cTwo hundred dollars reward will be paid by Messrs.Rutenberg & Co., 601 Craig-street, for such information as will lead to the arrest and conviction of two men who on the afternoon of Dec.9 did assault with intent to murder in bis store, Hiram Rutenberg, of the above firm, and at the same time stole 22 15k gold diamond rings from à to 1 karat in each set in claw; l hoop,ring with 5 diamonds; 1 horseshoe scarf pio with 13 diamonds.The deed was committed by two colored men\u2014a man of bright yellow with moustache, no whiskers, b feet 8% inches, 34 years, weighs about 165 pounds, dressed in dark clothes and a slouch bat; the other, pretty dark, about 5 feet 5 inches, is pug nose, 29 years, stout set, 170 pounds, wore dark clothes, stiff hat and a pin with an ox\u2019s head on his necktie,\u201d \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 Miss Bain Still in the Jail, Annie T.Bain is still behind the bars, being unable to obtain the necessary bail.Annie has a history.She belongs to a wealthy and respectable colcred family in Boston.What first brougbt her ir to notice in this city was the part she tcok in the Reynolds case.But Annie was in Montreal long before that.She c:me here with a colored man whom she called her husband.Some time after she fell in with Revnolds, and as a mat er of course, passed off as his wife.When Reynolds was gent to the penitentiary, she went back to her old love.All this time she was drawing money from home and she spent it lavishly on her colored friends.She backed up Reynolde in his business, and, it is claimed, spent some $2000 during her stay here.Annie is now behind the bars charged with stealing furniture.Some time ago she bought a lot of furniture on lease from a large furniture house.Then she gave a mortgage on the goods toa man named Hall, a well-known colored sport.She claims that she did not know 1t was a mor\u2018gage, but thought it was a note.Previous to this she had given Hall, so she says, a power of attorney to sell the cigar store on St.James-street, and for which she further claims Hall received $250, not one cent of which was paid her.According to her statement Hall owes her $150, She then went to the furniture dealers and asked them to take the goods back as she could not pay for them.They did so, and Hall had been arrested.Her cage will likely be disposed of to-day._\u2014\u2014 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Dr, Pierce\u2019s Golden Medical Discovery against \u201cConsumption!\u201d Itis not thestruggle of aday, but the first blows are the fatal blows! In its early stages, consumption (which is lung- scrofula) will yield to this great remedy! This has been proven beyond a doubt by innumerable successes! Acting directly upon the blood, its scope includes all scrofulous affections, liver and lung diseases, As a blood purifier and vital- izer, it stands unequaled.* Musical,\u201d From the New York Musical Courier, April13 The superb Knabe concert grand that Bulow played aided him notably in his artist!c utterances, The tone was penetrating, but mellow, powerful and plastic, instantly adapting itself to the mood of the player ; It whispered and roared at his command.The evenness and tonal balance of its scale were severely put to the test in the trying compositions of Beethoven, which often consists of a single note high in the treble supported by a simple chord in the deep bass.But at no one moment did the idea of disproportion enter the minds of the listeners, and Bulow publicly expressed himself aa delighted with the instrument; no mere idle empty compliment, for he is the style of man who would relu£e to play on an instrument he disliked, even if the audience were in fall view.The Eonority and liquidity of the Knabe piano, with its adaptability for coloring, enbanced the afternoon\u2019s performance considerably: Sole agents for the peerless Knabe planos, Willis & Co,, 1824 Notre Dame- street Montreal, THE M- NTREAL HERALD TOWNSHIP TOPIOS Of Interest to Montrealers and Our Neighbors, Several cases of diphtheria are reported in the vicinity of Compton.The Ozford Mountain Railway is in operation between Eastman and Law- re1.ceville and is :o be run during the winter, weather permitting.A haud- scme station has been erected at Law- renceville, which place is bezinniog to look up since the advent of the railway.Our St.Johns correspondent says: \u201cThe farmers are still ploughing in some sections of the country.\u201d The East Elgin election trial was concluded Friday, and Mr.Ingram was un- sented for the acts of persons held to be agents.Toe railway charges completely faiied.Our Eastern Townships man, who is always on the \u201cqui vive,\u201d gives the following information: \u201cJames O'Halloran, Esq., Q.C., attorney for the C,P.R,, has been in 8 .:Jobns frequently of late in connection with the action of that company against the town for the bonus of $10,000, the payment of which our city fathers persist in refusing.By-and-bye there will be a big bill of costs to pay in addition to the bonus, and then we suppose everyone will be happy.What St.Johns has paid in law costs during the past 10 years would run some Oa- tario towns of this size for a decade.\u201d The temperance people of Richmond are up ln arms.They say the town water où Saturday week was not fit to drink.Our Abbott's Corner correspondent says \u201cFriday the 4th inst.was the hardest wind of the season.1t unrocofed about 12 feet of Lewis Gocdhue\u2019s house and blew down a large tree in front of LL.Thomas residence.It also demolished S.R.Whitman\u2019s well-house, better known ag the \u201cVictoria Spring House.\u201d The St.Johns News says: \u201cWe \u2018may never get to be as large as London or even Montreal, but there is every prospect that we may grow and every evidence that we are growing and sooner or later will be recognized as one of the most prosperous towns in the province.Our Bedford Times correspondent says: \u201cThe invalids are recovering and there are no new cases of typhoid fever alihough there have been a number of cases of symptoms, Despite the unusual amount of sickness this fall, there have been very few deaths among the English speaking population.Diphtheria has been fatal in the French village.\u201d From Knowlton we hear that \u201cthe wind made havoc with the horse sheds at the Roman Catholic Church last weak.\u201d It \u2018srumcred that Mr.E.A.Dyer, MP.» has 1esigned bis seat in the House of Commous, and that an election will be on hand next month with Mr.Dyer again a candidate.Oar Eaton Corner correspondent says: \u201cPeople who are cutting wood on the east side of the river in this place are quite anxious for an ice bridge to cross the river, but weather is too warm for that yet.Roads very bad for wheeling, and no sleighing yet.\u201d From Sawyerville we receive the fol- lowirg contribution : \u201cThe Cookshire Mill Co.are still alive ad doing business, buying all kinds of good lumber.The mapager gays they are buying hardwood lumber at all places within their reach and paying fair prices for it.Mr.Cromweil is the agent for the company, and will do as he agrees.\u201d Messrs.F.W.and Willis Roberts, formerly of Coaticook, have assumed the management of the Biddeford Daily Standard and the job printing establishment in connection withit.The Sherbrooke Examiner says :\u2014 \u201cOnly three cases of smallpox now in the city, and those are at the civic hospital under careful surveillance.The prompt action of the authorities has stamped out disease so far as can be seen and they are deserving of the thanks of the community.\u201d The Machine Works Company of Cookshire started their electric light for the shops on Monday last.The Compton County Chronicle says : \u201cOur farmers should not forget the meeting of the Farmer's Institute to be held 2 Cookshire, next Wednesday, ec.16.The people of Eaton Corner are building asnow roller for this winter.It is the first one to be used in these parts and the other districts will watch the experiment with considerable interest.The Bell Telephone Company sent letters last week to each one of their subscribers in the Cookshire exchange notifying them that henceforth the price has been reduced to $10 per year.Arsene How Many Cats?\u201cIf 300 cats can kill 300 rats in 500 days, how many cats will it take to kill 100 ratsin 100 days?\u201d A fine toned upright piano will be given by The Queen to the first person answering the above problem corectly: an elegant gold watch will be given for the second correct answer, a china dinner set will be given for the third correct answer; an elegant silk drees pattern will be given for the fourth correct answer, and many other valuable prizes,all of which will be announced in the next issue ot The Queen.As the object of offering these prizes is to attract the attention fo our popular family magazine, each person answering must enclogce four three-cent stamps for sample number containing full particulars.Send to-day.You may secure a valuable prize.$10 in nold will be paid for the best original grobly to be published in a future pumper Address The Canadi an Queen, Toronto,Can._\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 PERSONAL POINTERS, Sir Hector Langevin is at the Hall.N.R.Connolly, of Quebec, is at the Hall.John Campbell, of New York, is a guest the Hall, Poot \u2019 guest at John Bishop, ot Toronto, is registered at the Hall, ©\" » 18 TOR D.Davies, of Amherst, is a late arrival at the Hall, = \u2019 arrival a Geo.Smith, of St.John, N,B,, arrived at the Hall yesterday.Amonfi the late arrivalg at the Richelieu Hotel are: Jas, T.Halcombe, Boston ; James B.Donovan, New York; L.H.Myrand Quebec ; Z.de Sallmord, Cornwall; Geo.H, Weagant, Cornwall ; J.F.Lemieux, Quebec ; fous Demers, Longueuil ; R, Dufresne, Bur- ugton.Among the latest arrivals at the Hotel Riendeau are ; J.L.Kirrow, Toronto; M.C.Blais, Sorel ; KE.H.Tellier Louiseville ; Jos.E.Parent.St.Jerome ; E.Lapierre, Ottawa ; Dr.F.E.Petit, J.C.Lapointe and A.Bigon- isse, St, Jerome ; W.Kirby and R.Dufresne, Buriington ; Jos.Campbell, Toronto.tr ; Hard to Get Good cigar\u2014not at all\u2014try a Hero at bc and you will say it is first:class\u2014agk for them at cigar stores, J.Rattray & Co.Montreal ee Have you tried a Rialto Cigar?if not, get one at once; they are first class L.O, Grothe & Co., Montreal a r If you have a fine repeater that want epairing take it to J.B.Williamson, Notre Dame-street, A QUARTER OF A CENTURY SPECIAL SERVICES AT ST.GABRIEL\u2019S CHURCH YESTERDAY, Sermons by Rev.D.J, Macdonuell, of Toronto, and Principal Grant, of Queen\u2019s\u2014Interesting Services, Twenty-five years ago, yesterday, Rev, Dr.Campbell was inducted as pagtor of the congregation of 8t.Gabriel's church.Tie induction took place in the little church on St.Gabriel street.For a number of years Rev.Dr.Campbell labored there, and the result of his 1abors is manifest in the large congregation and beautiful church ¢n St.Catherine street.In 1867, Dr.Campbell preached the first sermon to the 78th Regiment, the Ross- shire Buffs, of Lucknow fame, which arrived that year in Canada.Forone year these stalwart Highlanders remained in Montreal and worshipped at old St.Gabriel\u2019s, The Duke of Connaught, while an off cer in the 60th Rifles, was a frequent worshipper at this church.During the quarter of a century which Dr.Campbell has been pastor of St.Gabriel's ha has preached upwards ot 2,000 germons, besides giving as many expositions on week days.He has baptized 691 persors, married 586 and assisted in tte burial of 508.The names of 1220 com- muni capts bave been placed on the church roll during that period.As fitting the occasion the Kirk session deemed the event wor hy of special emphasis and arranged for special services yesterday.In the forenoon Rev.D.J.Macdcnnell preached.The reverend gentleman took for his text: Eph, IV, 8,11, 12, \u201cHe gave gifts unto men.He gave some to be apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some, pastors and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ.\u201d The thoughts presented in the discourse were grouped together under two beads, viz: The purpose of Christ for redeemed humanity.2.The instrumentality by which this purpose is to be accomplished.1.The purpose of Christ is \u201cthe perfecting of the saints,\u201d the training of men for noble, complete, Christly lives, 8g that they shall not live to glorify themselves, to satisfy their own ambition or to gratify their love of ease or of gain, but to glorify Gud, who is Love, whose glory is the glory of boundless love that embraces every creature He has mace, and who is glorified more by the loving, self-forgetful lives of men and women and children than by the wonders of the material universe, The \u201csaints\u201d are ail those who believe in Christ and are consecrated to His service.They are to be \u201cperfected\u201d not as isolated units, snatched from the wreck and set in safety far off on some blessed shore, but as members ot a \u201cbody\u201d set in true relation to their fellow members and to Christ their living Head, learning by love to serve one another and to bear the burdens of the weak, and the sad, and the ignorant, and the sinful, even ag the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give His life a ransom for many.2.The agents by whom this work is to be accomplished are men, who are the \u201cgifts\u201d cf the risen and ascended Lord to His church\u2014men filled with the spirit of Christ, who are ambassadors for Christ, and who by manifestations of the truth commend themselves to every man\u2019s conscience in the sight of God\u2014 men who are eyes to the spiritually blind and feet to the spiritually lame, helpers of the weak, comforters of the sad, res- coers of the lost\u2014men of insight who can bring the old truth to bear upon new conditions\u2014 men of courage and faith who are ready to fight the battle of right against wrong, of God\u2019s truth against the devil's lies, of Christ\u2019s words and spirit against the world\u2019s maxims and usages.Men who can do this work are now, as they always bave been, the best gifts of Christ to His church.These thoughts are germane to the occasion which brings us together tc- day\u2014the celebration of the twenty-fifth apniversury of the gettlement of your minister.The term of his service amongst you almost exactly coincides with the period covered by my own ministry in the church.For many reasons, personal and other, I am glad to be with you to-day and to share in your thanksgiving, There are few men, if any, in the ranks of the ministry in our church who have done more hard work than your minister has done during the past 25 years, or who have carried on their work under greater disadyantages than those under which he wrought for a great part of that time.The old building in which I worshipped with you on several occasions, had undoubtedly sacred memories connected with it, but it was none the less unfavorably situated, and it was net well appointed for the various departments of cburch work.Your removal to this beautiful and suitable edifice has enabled you to carry on your work as a congregation with greatly increased comfort and efficiency.While faithful and d.ligent in his labora in the congregation, your minister has not failed to take his full share in the general work of the church.He spoke to you last Sunday of the changes, political and ecclesiastical,that have taken place since bis settiement.So far as this branch of the church is concerned, the great event of the past 25 years has been the union of the two sections of the Presbyterian Church which was consummated in 1875, with all the blessed results that have flowed from it in the increasod spiritual life of the church and the steady expansion of mission work both home and foreign.In this work you have borne an honorable share, and I doubt not that with your increased prosperity there will be corresponding growth in your liberality.What the results of these 25 years\u2019 Tinistry have been inthe quickening and guiding of the spirits of those who have worshipped in 8t, Gabriel\u2019s Church only the great day will fully reveal.Iam sure your minister has sought to fideclare to you the whole counsel of God, keeping back nothing that is profitable, He has been a diltgent student of the word of God and as he gained clearer insight into the truth he has brought forth out of his treasure for your benefit things new and old.He has been a faithful \u201cpastor\u201d as well as \u201cteacher\u201d\u2014coming into your homes not simply in an official capacity, bat, especially in your time of sorrow} coming as the man of God and the sympathizing friend, taking your burdens upon his heart and speaking words cf healing and of comfort.And now I commend you and your minister to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.In the Afternoon, The afternoon meeting was especially for the young people of the congregation, including the Sabbath School children.There was a large attendance, the atten?tion was excellent and the addresses by Rev.Principal Grant and Rev.Mr.Fleck were eminently suited to the occasion, Principal Grant recalled some reminisces ces of his own boy-hood days and referred to some points in connection with Dr.Campbell\u2019s 25 years\u2019 service in the pastorate\u2014very appropriately styling the occasion a silver wedding, an ecclesiastical one, of courge.He then impressed upon the young people the importance of choosing the \u2018one thing needful\u201d and working it out in their daily life, if they would be happy, influential and useful men and women in the sphere of activity they would be called on to fill.Weaitb, position, honor, power, he said, were as nothing compared with the importance of choosing that wbich would make secure their eternal future.Rev.Mr.Fleck, of Kuox Church, addressed himself mainly to the Sabbath school children and secured their close attention.He spoke of \u201cThe Sun of Righteousness arising with healing in his wings,\u201d as set forth by Malichi, \u2018the messenger\u201d\u2014the reference being to the coming of the Messiah whose mission and message were for the enlightening and healing of the nations.That was his Old Testament text.He then spoke of Christians being styled in the New Testament as \u201cchildren of the Nght?\u201d and pointed out to the children that their mission was so to live that they might be lights in the world,reflecting the light of the \u201cSun of Righteousness.\u201d He concluded his address by expressing the hope that the history of St.Gabriel in the next 25 years might be even better than the past quarter of a century.The Evening Service, The church was crowded again in the evening, when the Rev.Principal Grant, of Queen\u2019s College, Kingstou, preached.He took for his text the seventh verse of the twenty-ninth chapter of Jeremiah.\u201c Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace,\u201d \u201c Last Sunday,\u201d said the reverend gentleman, in commencing bis discourse, \u201c your pastor was lonk- ing backward over the past quarter of a century.To-night we will look forward and consider the lines of duty on which we should walk, a8 citizens rather than churchmen, because a good citizen must be a member of the church to which he belongs.He claimed that the pulpit was the place in which to talk politics, as the nation is a unit of which citizens are the germs, sharing in the strength or weakness of the nation.Every change that is made in a government touches every citizen Fo Canada we owe our first duty.The curse comes back on us if we allow a government to govern ill: We should exercise our right in this respect.To refuse to do so 18 to sip.\u201c That's why 1 speak of politics in the pulpit.\u201d He said that to sell one\u2019s influence or vote for money office, or anything,else is à sin of high treason to self, country and Gcd, anyone of which will dama a soul as easily as drunkenness or any other sin of appetite.Seeking and praying for the peace of Canada involves : (1) Fidelity to the nation, The fundamental principles of the British constitution gives to Canada the right to make reforms ; (2) The manifestation of good feeling between the different races and creeds, more especially between the French and English-speaking people.In this Canada looks to ontreal to take the lead.(3) United effort to eecure government that will represent the people vest.The frightful exposures of Ottawa and Quebec will awaken us to the need of driving these tainted men from power.If the Government cannot do that, the law of gravitation which 18 drawing ns towards the country to the south of us will prevail, and notbing will save us from absorption but the conviction that we have something that they bave not.Courage at the present crisis is what is needed ail over Canada; then we shall have the Government.Then, with such a Government, in turn we shall get all the commercial relations with other countries that we would desire.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ORATORS FROM ABROAD.The Mission at St.Mary\u2019s Proving a Greater Success Than Ever.The Mission or Spiritual Retreat, which members ofthe Catholic Church have the special privilege of attending only on certain occasions, as at St.Mary\u2019s presently, is ever productive of happy results.The true pastor, ever the zealous guardian of the souls confided to bis care, occasionally calls to his assistance other devgted laborers in the Lord\u2019s vineyard with sa view of augmenting the piety and devotion of his people, and thus promoting more effectually the work he is engaged 1m.Among the mcst devoted and painstaking clergymen of this city in the spiritual, material and educational interests of their parishes, is ranked Rev.Dr.Salmon, of St.Mary\u2019s, in whose parish a mission was opened on Sunday, the 6th inst, At all times the good people of St.Mary's have the opportunity of listening to truly choice Cbristian eloquence from the lips of their devoted pastor and his beloved assistant, Rev.P.F.O'Donzell, and on many an occasion, by the indefatigable efforts of these rev.gentlemen, the pulpit of St.Mary\u2019s has been graced with the most distin- guisbed orators from abroad, but rarely if ever has its sacred precincts resounded to more fervent, salutary and impassioned eloquence than during the present mission; both morning and evening the sacred edifice is crowded with worship.rs, The mission i8 being preached by the Rev.Oblat Fathers Nicoll and Brady, of Dublin, Ireland, whose oratorical fame is widely known throughout Great Britain, since the days of the lamented and renowned Father Tom Burke.Father Nicoll visited the United States some years ago, but this is Father Brady\u2019s first visit to America.The whole course of sermons is in the highest degree attractive and instructive.Yesterday at Grand Mass Rev.Father Brady preached, taking for his text \u201cGive not place to tbe devil,\u201d words from the episiie of St.Paul \u2018o the Ephesians, chap.4, verse 27.The Rev.Father pictured in glowing terms the hideous- pess and enormity of mortal sin; he em- pbasized the necessity of exercising great vigilance in avoiding the occasions of sin, by showing that when man voluntarily exposed himself to these occasions, be could not, owing to human frailty, rely on his own sirength, nor on the power of Almighty God, because the Lord would not aid those who disobey his injunctions, and it was expressly declared in Holy Writ that he who seeketh danger shall perish in if, He gave several Instances of how divine mediation miraculously preserved certain souls, who by force of circumstances were placed in peril, but no case of divine intervention bas ever been recorded when the sinner approached these occasions of his own free-will, The rev.gentleman's discou.se was replete with practical iilnstrations, which can only be truly appreciated by those who enjoyed the benefit of having heard him.A brief outline of such a sermon cannot do justice to the ability of the Rev.Father, whom it is to be hoped all English speakingCatholics will make it their duty to bear.The ladies\u2019 mission terminates this (Monday) evening with imposing ceremonies.The mission for men opens Tuesday evening and will be continued until Christmas, AMUSEMENT NOTES.Good Companies at the Theatres and Several Concerts, \u201cA Modern Match,\u201d as played at the Academy of Music on Satarday night, again added to the high laurels that Mr.Pitou\u2019s company have won since it came to Montreal.The recalls were not only many, but were so hearty that one could not doubt the sincerity of the crowded house when it declared by its applause that the presentation was realistic and powerful in the extreme.The re-engagement of the company for this week is meeting with the greatest ap- provalon all sides,and the general opinion prevails that the Academy of Music will be crowded from the front orchestra chair to the standing room behind the gods.To-night \u201cGeoffrey Middleton,\u201d with which the company first won our hearts, will be played, and to-morrow evening \u201cA Modern Match\u201d will be on the boards.Then comes Wednesday, \u201cHer Release;\u2019 Thursday, \u2018Geoffrey Middleton;\u201d Friday.\u201cHer Release.The attractions for Saturday will be announced later.Nellie McHenry To-Night.There is always a something which binds us vo old favorites, who have made havpy the hearts of those who went to see, to hear, and to laugh a pleasant hour or two away in the shadow of the foot lights.After an absence of a couple of years comes once more that premiere comedienne,NellieMcHenry,whose mirth provoking roles have produced no end of laughter.And who that once saw jolly Nellie could ever forget her ?Hardly anyone.She has sparkled in the glow of incandescents tothe accompaniment of the softest strains, while lovers of music and frolic bave laughed themselves into fite in the parquet, balcony and foyer.As the shining light of the Salisbury Troubadours, she can be remembered as if \u2019iwere but last night she had been here.With that bewithing smile and winsome face, she charmed her every audience, and darted aboat the stage with a fresh- pess that made us wonder at her activity.And that imperipus air she wouid at times assume-\u2014like the look of a Czarine in a moment of revoluton\u2014 with eyes tbat sparkled in the glow of electricity\u2014with the fire of youth and beauty, that marked at once the woman and the artiste.What an eager face she always possessed?And that outburst of merry lavghter witb which she usually greeted her audience?Then those songs she used to sing! How often did wo hear them from avother\u2019s lips, but how differently rendered | When jolly Nellie sang them once they were forever popular.b Now she comes among us as the head of her own company\u2014the bright particular star of her own play, sssociated with her genial husband, the happiest of happy fellows, the inimitable John Webster.Who in Montreal does not remember him ?This evening at the Queen's Theatre will bonnie Neliie McHenry present for the first time in Montreal her new and popular comedy,\u201cA Night at tue Circus.\u201d The occasion will be one of particular interest to theatre goers in this city, for Miss Nellie has always attracted a particular c'ass of audience that appreciate fully tne value of clever and original comedy.The piece caught the public fancy at once, for it was neat and clean, of the refined order of a comedy, and a new departure in the charac.er and make up of current farcical productions, It created roars of laughter wherever it was seep, and merriment reigned from the rise to the fallof the curtain.À long line of carriages has always marked the way to the particular theatre in which jolly Nellie played, for she is one of the few that are left.Dear Xrish Boy: At the Theatre Royal to-day Gus Reynolds will appear in Dan McCarthy's drama, \u201cThe Dear Irish Boy.\u201d Sensational incidents of course predominate, flavored largely with tbat original wit, truly typical of the Irish people.There is no lack of interest throughout the piece, for the plot, which is very realistic, is sustained allthe way through.The play abounds in mirth and pathos, while the staging of the drama 18 original and realistic.There are moonlight scenes and views of ruined abbies, where ever lingers the voice of tbe nightingale.The scenic effects are rare and beautiful and differ! very much from the average type of melodrama.Life in Ireland is depicted in true style.There is an amount of grace about the characters employed in the piece.Singing and dancing are especial characteristics of the various scenes.The whole performance is thoroughly enjoyable with Gus Reynolds in the leading role.The Popular Concerts.Tte first of a series of popular concerts to be given under the auspices of the embers of the newly established Queen Elizabeth gymnasium came off last Saturday.The affair was, on the whole, a decided success, in gpite of a few drawbacks, for which the organizers of the entertainment, notwithstanding their inexperience, were in no way to blame.An excellent program, including songs, duets, quartettes, humorous readings and instrumental selections had been arranged; but the failore of some of the performers to put in an appearance at the proper time caused delay.Mr.S.C.Stevenson occupied the chair during the evening and proved a host in himself.In addition to discharging the duties of chairman in a capable way, he managed to keep his audience amused for a considerable time with a few reminiscences of his school days, most of the incidents related by him having occurred in the very hall in which they were assembled.The andi- ence itself was a large and thoroughly good humored one, so things went «n very well, notwithstanding the few hitches already alluded to.Mra, Fiscer executed a piano solo in first-class style, aud : the Misses and Messrs.Done aldson rendered yeoman service durng the evening.Mr.Parker, \u201cthe banjo king,\u201d scored another success and was warmly applauded, having to respond to an encore.The Donaldson Quartette is an excellent ue combination and the way in which its members rendered a medley of popular airs was praiseworthy in the extreme, Judging from the nombers present and the enthusiasm shown on Saturday night it would seem es if the efforts of the promoters of the Queen Elizabeth gym.Dasium were destined to meet with the success they deserve.The object is certainly one which ought to commend it.gelf to the citizens.The demand for g provision of some kind for the physieal training of young women hes become imperative, and it 18 tobe hoped that the citizens of Montreal will not show themselves bebind those of other and smaller cities in thig respect} The modest sum of $1 will cover membership for three months, which ought to put it within the reach of all Classeg will be held regularly under the direction of Miss Barnjum.It isto be hoved that the concerts wii} be well supported during the winter, Tne admission fees of 10 cents for adultg and 5 cents for children are certainly 10w enough, considering the class of entertainment provided.The members of the M.A.À.A will give an entertainment to-night in aid of the project, and the Victoria Rifles ang ibe firemen will also do something 1n the rear future.The Fiske Jubilee Singers, After an absence of six years the celebrated Fiske Jubilee Singers have returned to America and are stopping in the city for a few days.Their first appearance here since their return was at the St.James Methodist church last even.ng, where they sang three sacred hymns during the service.Their selec- ions were \u201cSteal Away to Jesus,\u201d \u201cTha Lord\u2019s Prayer,\u201d and \u2018The Crucifixion,\u201d + nd all were rendered with that swe-t and expressive melody which has made them so famous in the realm of vo.al music.Some idea of the popularity of these vocalists may be obtained when it is stated that hundreds of people were crowded around the entrances to the church last evening long before the hour for the service to begin, and fifteen minutes after the doors were thrown open not one inch of standing room was to be had and many were consequently turned away.They will appear again to-night and to-morrow night in the lecture room + of the St.James church, amuse Christmas Concert, A choice program of mnsic has been prepared for rendition in the 8t.James Methodist Church on Christmas eve.It is only necessary to say that Mr.Barrington Foote has been engaged as soloist for the occasion to commend it to the public.In addition tothe attraction of Mr.Foote, Mr.C.A.E.Harriss will give two organ selections, the first from the oratorio of \u201cSamson,\u201d by Handel, the second an offertoire, * Christmag Themes,\u201d by Guilmant, and the rest of tbe program will be made up with Christmas carols by the choir, under the leadership of the the church organist, Mr.Herbert Patton.Mr.Foote appears in the following selections : Aria, \u201c The Trumpets Shall Sound,\u201d Handel's Mes- sieb; aria, \u2018Lord Have Mercy,\u201d Mendelssohn\u2019s St.Paul; recitative aria, \u201cNow Heaven in Fuller Glory Shone,\u201dHayden\u2019s creation; \u201cArm, Arm, Ye Brave!\u201d Handel\u2019s Judas Maccabrus ; recitative aria, \u201c For the Mountains Shall Depart,\u201d Mendelssohn's Elijah.etl NOT A LOVE MATCI.The Duke of Clarence Loved Before, But His Royal Mother Interfered.Loxpon, Dec: 12.\u2014The arrangements for the marriage of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale were, it is - understood, discussed by the Cabin t to-day.Although the act of 1889 bars a special grant to tte Duke, the Ministers hold that a dowry can be voted to Princess Victoria Mary.The Prince of Walas will visit the Queen at Windeor on Mgn- day to staee the intentions of tne Ministers, The current stories that the botroshai ig due to the Duke of Clarence\u2019s persistent Jove under great opposition do ut agree with court reports, Oa the cou- trary, it is known that the Duke of Clarence has long been enamored of Princess Helene, of Orleans, and that two years ago be personally declared Lis passion t> the Comte de Paris and r-ceived the assurance that Princess Helene reciprocated his love, and that both ber father and mother approved the match.Princess Helene then sent te Rome to put the question of a change of religion, as an absolute necessity, before the Pope, who told her that it would be impossible that such a change could obtain his remotest sympathy.The position remained unsettled until Prince George became ill, when the Queen and the Prince ard Princess of Wales became alarmed over the chance of the Duke of Fife nearing the throne, Pressure was then put on the Duke of Clarence and Avondale on every side, family and Cabinet reasons being adduced against an alliance with the house of France.This pressure led to his acceptance of Princess Victoria Mary, for whom he has shown a cousinly liking.The Queen has promised a dowry to the bride.On the occasion of the coming marriage the Queen will raise the Duke of Teck and his children to the dignity of \u201cRoyal Hignesses.\u201d They are now simply \u201cHighnesses.\u201d THE MOST ECONOMICAL WAY \u2014T0 USE\u2014 PAPER.600,000 In Use in the states We have now in stock the following sizes WHITE FOR DBUGGIST USE.© 6-912 in.on one Spindle.Price 3.FOR GROCERS AND DRY GOODS.yy\u201d Se | Manilla Rolls, 15îN.cocssocucsvecsors meres on$1 00 24in, [A coreennenn 5 A0 80 IN.000 2000 00ocrores sors sccu eo 290 © NEW ENGLAND PAPER COMPANY: Sole Proprietors and Manufacturers: 2] & 28 De Bresoles-St, \u2014 _\u2014 TEE HERALD Is printed and published 5 THE HERALD COMPANY LIMITED, on Peter Mitchell, President, at Beever HallHill Montreal.REAL MONTREAY "]