The daily witness, 17 janvier 1894, mercredi 17 janvier 1894

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RU 51041 po REF 0 Ry ET ARS ES say es MERE BARELY SIR CERN a QU Qk Tesh THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.Pr gL ry ory = TY LY TAR A = JPET + RE ee BANE We UT LIRE AL TR poe = ET EEE 0068 9 RES EE RO PT À NYA ESS 0 LER RIN Li Tos RES TRUE ME TIRS ARE EP Re PR EST LOT * \u2014\u2014\u2014 (LOWS BROWNING.POETS RELIGION DESCRIBED.\u2014 THE yrs.CARUS-WILSON LECTURES ON \u2018 CHRISTMAS EVE AND EASTER DAY.\u2019 The audience which gathered yester- dur afternoon in the Y.M.C.A.to hear sis, Carus-Wilson's lecture on Brown- nes \u2018Christmas Eve and Easter Day\u201d proved 100 large for the reception room of the Y.M.C.A.building, in which it was advertised to be held, and was :sed to adjourn to the lecture hall.obËZ the platform were Mrs.(Rev.Dr.) gravanson, president of the association, Airs.Gault, Mr.Carus-Wilson and the pev.J.Edgar Hill, of St.Andrew\u2019s \u201chyrch.Cine Rev.Mr.Hill, on introducing the gneaker, took occasion to say a few words regarding the Young Women's Christian Asosciation, on whose behalf Jr, Carus-Wilson had now come to lec- tyre.Such an audience, he said, was syreiy indicative of the growing interest oi the people of Montreal in so worthy cause.No institution in the city batter deserved the support of the com- mualF- The ladies in charge of the Young Women's Christian Association were competent and.faithful but their efforts were sadly hampered by lack of nds.He believed, however, that the cizens of Montreal were gradually becoming alive to the needs of their young gomen, and he was sure it would not be on MRS.ASHLEY CARUS-WILSON.long before the young women of the city would have as well equipped a building as had their brothers.In this connect'on the thanks of all would be tendered to Mrs.Carus-Wilson for her lecture in their behalf.ABOUT THE POET.Ars.Carus-Wilson prefaced her lecture on the poem with a few words about the poet.He was born May 2, 1812, and died Dec.12, 1889.He was the gon of parents in somewhat humble circumstances, residing in Camberwell, a suburb of London.From his earliest youth his childish imagination had been fired by the old Gaelic songs which he learned from his half-Scottish mother.Through a singularly uneventful childhood he was unconsciously preparing for his after-work.In 1846 he married the greatest of all women\u201d poets, Eliza- Vetn Barrett, and these two great pdets formed a unique couple.To Italy he owad much of his poetic inspiration and in Venice he died.His first poem \u2018Pauline\u2019 was published when he was only twen:y vears old, and \u2018Asolando,\u2019 his last volume, was issued on the day he d'ed.Through all of Robert Browning\u2019s works ther~ runs one great key-note\u2014the ome great message to mankind.He deals with the subjective inner life of the ina dividual rather than with the outer life of the community.With him the inward is the all important.Drowning was a great religious poet, for through all his works ran the \u2018thought of man looking up to God as the sure ground of confidence of the human race.He was not a religious poet in the same sense as was Dante or Milton, but in every true sense he was the greatest Christian poet of our era.None other had gone more deeply into the problems of the Christian faith.He led our thoughts to dwell not on the external evidences of Christlanity, not on the Christianity of doctrine or living witness, but on the internal evidence of our own conscience.Christianity was to Browning not a great system or creed but a life.His perpetual thought was not of what Christ thought and dld, but the influence he has upon us now.His Christianity was a strong personal faith, a living love and abiding loyalty to Christ.* CHRISTMAS EVE AND EASTER DAY.\u2019 His poem of \u2018Christmas Eve and Easter Day\u2019 was a marvellous picture of a man-made religion in contrast to a religion revealed by God.\u2018A Death In the Desert\u2019 and \u2018Saul\u2019 gave expression to the truth of Christianity as Ît comes to us recommended by the fact that it answers all our higher aspirations.The revelation of God manifest in the flesh was to him the solution of al questions in the earth and under fit.His Christianity is the Chnistianity of the Nicene creed.Ged is the God of Light and life, Christ is the God we worship.\u2018Christmas Eve and Easter Day\u2019 was written in 1850 when Browning was almost 40 years pld.As we first opened it we were inclined to be almost vexed with its author he is so whimsical; the baffled feeling it gave us made us hesitate to go on.Browning vas certainly not easy, but the chief reazon why most people found Browning zn difficult to comprehend, was that, as Swinburne said, he always thought at 11! speed.His thought was to that of the ordinary man as the swiftness of a railway train to that of a waggon, or \u2018he speed of the telegraph to the railway, and in trying to keep up with him Ya often get out of breath.But this difficulty had been greatly exaggerated.Moreover, do not be dismayed at his fraks of rhyme.He soon leaves the *rimsical and the grotesque and rises 0 the sublime.Pris poern \u2018Christmas Eve and Easter ca Was an attempt to answer ques- OS as to the essence of religion; \u201c> in view of corporate Christian life, \" 1 second, the essence of religion to LP myself.In it were poetically re ;, Cented different types of religious , DIRPT, Une extreme forms of what are L'pmarly and crudely known a3 \u2018high,\u2019 fren 191 *hroad.\u201d He shows the rearler, , -_lite in connection with a crude op rormist chapel in a little rural came then leads him to Rome the hts Lia of mediaeval Christendom, with «80st form of aesthetic worship; then carries him to the class-room of a professor where we Bee rationalism in full sway.But in none of them does he find the perfect presentation of Christianity.Each system, crudity, superstition, and the \u2018exhausted airbel of criticism,\u2019 its separate votary considers infallible; he feels the Truth of God must be larger than any one men's apprehension of it.The poem opens with the poet standing at the little chapel watching the faces of the people crowding In, all looking askance at the allen, who has ventured within the sacred precincts.He notes the \u2018pressure of the preaching man's immense stupidity\u2019 as he \u2018In fine irreverence hugs the Book of Books to pieces,\u201d and gives us a marvellous pie- ture of what men make of the bible when they look upon it merely as a string of ttexts.Jarred by the preacher\u2019s stupidity he comes out fealing that we need more than zeal and good aspiration to make satisfactory teaching.Wearlly he looks up to thie sky and sees God there and says he will worship God in nature.But has not Jesus sald, \u201cWhere two or three are gathered together in my name there am I .n the midst of them,\u2019 and he grasps the hem of Christ's vesture and falls down in adoration, rebuked for his criticism of the true worshippers in the little chapel.Next he is carried ta Rome in the midst of its gross superstition.Here he fidds the heart right but the head giddy.From here he turns to the professor who seeks to account for the historical Christ by enquiring into the different sources whence the life of Christ is derived.But he.finds that speaking of Christ as the grentest of human teachers is most illogical, that the teaching of a merely human Christ leads to inextricable contradictions.One, by his soul's too much presuming, To turn the frankiticznse\u2019s fuming; And vapors of the candle starlike, Into the cloud her wings she buoys on Each, that thus sets the pure air, seething, May poison it for healthy breathing.But the critic leaves no air to poison, Pumps out with ruthless imngentity Atom by atom, and leaves you\u2014vacuity.Tt Christ be only the best of men, then there is no true ground of reverence at all.\u2018What men need is not a new teacher of moral truth.but à mo- \u2018tive to enable them to act up to the moral truth they have.And that motive is personal allegiance to the teacher.Believe in him who lived and died and rose again à the key-note of the whole.There is truth that we ourselves may obtain and, having found it, it is our duty to share it with others.In this spirit we found the\u2018impulse of all missionary effort.He learns to distrust the attitude which leads us to discover only defects.The question for each one of us Is not fs the pitcher of the finest ware, but ls there walter in it?God will surely lead all to his truth.He finds it is easy to critcise forms and ceremonies | with which we are not {n sympathy.But the question is whether we ourselves, have tasted the \u2018Living Water.The spirit we need is not the spirit of criticism, but of love and sympathy.The great question for us Is, not what Christ was, but what he is to us now.The second part of the poem, \u2018Easter Day,\u2019 makes religion a very .personal matter.Jts spirii.is \u2018Blasged 4s he who has not seen apd:yet has believed.\u201d I# is the lesson of religion as concerns the individual.If faith were compelled it would be no faith at all.\u2018Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the proving of things not seen,\u2019 and could, therefore, never be subject to demonstration.The old, old query of \u2018Shew us a sign,\u2019 would never be answered.He then gives a vision of the judgment day.The sentence of the man who deliberately chose the world instead of Christ is: Thou art silent Nut of the heaven of spirit, glut Thy sense upon the world; 'tis thine For ever\u2014take it!\u2019 His first thought is one of exultation that the beautiful world of nature is his.But soon he has to ask, \u2018What is the glory ef nature but the pledge of something beyond ?Art, too, and knowledge fail to satisfy.They, too, are but pledges of something above.But surely love will satisfy ?Yes, love is greater than all But human love is but the reflection of the love Divine.In the final prayer that rises to his lips lies the only hope for himself.The | terrible vision passes away and the poet wakens to the knowledge that only one thing in the wide universe can satisfy man\u2014God as manifested in Christ.And the risen living Christ is not far from any one of us.The lecture was plentifully interspersed with quotations.At the close on metion of Mrs.John Macdougall, seconded by Mrs.Stevenson, a cordial vote of thanks was returned to the talented lecturer.eee POLITICAL SHUFFLE.MB.TAILLON\u2019S RUMORED RESIGNATION.The \u2018Monde\u2019 publishes the following : \u2018It is asserted that the Hon.Mr.Tailion\u2019s resignation has been before the Lieuten- ant-Governor for some days past.It has not yet been accepted, in order that it may not be said to be a consequence of the poor session just ended.In the event of the resignation being accepted, Mr.Taillon will take Mr.Tasse\u2019s seat in the Senate pending his appointment as a judge, and Mr.Tasse would become a provincial minister.Mr.Nantel would take Mr.Taillon\u2019s place as prime minister, and Mr.Casgrain would be made a judge in the place of the Hon.Mr.Caron, who does not delude himself as to his approaching superannuation.All this information confirms and increases the information which the \u2018Monde\u2019 was the only one to give a few weeks ago ,and which is exactly correct.All this shuffle will take place when Mr.Chap- leau wishes.\u2019 STREET RAILWAY CASES.Yet another case against the street railway.Mr.A.Filiatrault complained in the Recorder's Court yesterday that he had to wait twenty-five minutes on Saturday night for an Ontario street car.The case will be heard on Monday.The similar case taken by Mr.L.A.W.Proulx was postponed to Friday.Messrs, Prefontaine, St.Jean and Archer, acting for the street railway, have taken out a writ of certiorari as to the legality of the sentence recently passed by the Recorder in the case of Mr.C.Leboeuf vs.the Street Railway Company.The affair will be argued in the Superior curt.ol »- ADVERTISEMENTS.COLONIAL HOUS ee + 000 eo.- + \u201c141 HA Li A bed \u201c3 \u201ceg 00° 6.% * ; ® oe.3 $l +*% o % + ° 9e £% #2 2000 44e ?Te + + 9 > 3 * pee + à 8 000 et 00 %e Sova\u201d & 3 Sooo\u2019 Everything In our Stock fis subject to THE FOLLOWING BEING SOME OF FURNITURE DEPARTMENT.20 percent off everything in this Department, and five percent extra for cash, CURTAIN DEPARTMENT, 20 percent off all our Curtains and 5 percent extra for cash.CHINA AND GLASSWARE DEPARTMENT.20 percent off everything in stack.Special Tables ef Greatly reduced Goods and 5 percent extra for cash.MANTLE: DEPARTMENT.Discounts in this Department range from 20 to 75 percent and 5 percent extra for cash.COLORED DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT.The balance of our Challies to clear at 25 p.c.off and 5 p.c.extra for cash.881£ OFF ALL DRESS PATTERNS, Great Bargains on our Tables in Choice goods at prices to sult all purchasers.SILK DEPARTMENT, SPECIAL LINEA, 27 Bhot Corduroy VelveteeRB.icesesssiisessessscas srvenass?8C 881 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+ 3.3 .&% .¢ 0 À Iii : *% e HENRY MORGAN & CO, MONTREAL.| CALEDONIAN LADIES.convergazione in the Balmoral Hotel LECTORS OF JANUARY DISCOUNT SALES THE COMMITTEE OF THE CALE- DONIAN SOCIETY RECOMMENDS THEIR ADMISSION AS AS8O- CIATE MEMBERS.The Caledonian Society is to be recommended by the general committee to admit ladies who are Scotch, or of Scottish descent, as associate members.The soclety has always been in advance of the times so far as ladles are concerned, having been the first national society, it is believed, to give the ladies seats at the natiomal banquet boards.It has been their custom for many years past to do this, and now there would be no thought of a banquet or social gathering without the ladles.To this, perhaps, is due so much of the Caledonian Soclety\u2019s success .Last evening, however, at the usual menth- ly meeting of the committee, the president read a letter from the secretary.of the National Council of Women, 0 which Lady Aberdeen is president, asking the co-operation of the society wilx the women\u2019s work.The letter assumed that ladies were already part of the working force and membership of the Caledonian Society, which is not the case, and a-letter explaining this, but at the tame time wishing success to the Council, was ordered to be sent to the secretary of the Montreal branch of the council at once.But it was {m- mediately afterwards explained that \u2018| Scoteh ladles had expressed a desire on the part of thelr own independent selves to be permitted to attend the so- clals\u2014ladtes who had neither husbanés nor brothers, and who were fond of the dear old land and the literary and musical treats afforded members in the St.Andrew's Home parlors during the winter months.It was at once resolved on motion of Mr.S.S.Bain, seconded by Mr.Robert Aitken, that the society be recommended to admit ladies as associate members, as the bylaws would require alteration to admit them to full membership.There was jittée ro- \"nat a dissentfent votce.\u2019 ~The Burne annjversary -¢ ported that the arrangements for the there is every prospect of a most successful night.The choir is practising assiduously under the leadership of Mr.Crawford, and.will give their annual concert in February, fixing the admission at po- pulag prices.À number of new members were admitted, including Mr.C.C.Newton and Major Macaulay.; - == pa NINETEENTH CENTURY CLUB.FOR A SLEIGH DRIVE.This evening quite à party of Burlington people will arrive in Montreal, to remain during the week, to see the sights of eur city and enjoy dome of the sport to be had of & northern winter, to all of which Burlington is, of course, very near.The members of the olub are e}l\\married, and-it is with them a rule.that their wives accompany them, annexation from this party that there ctherwise might be, except that the daughters of the party are all very at- tractlve young ladies The names of the gentlemen follow:\u2014Hon: B.B: Smal- ley, I.8.Collector of Customs for the district of Vermont, which includes the offices of Montreal and Toronto; Mr.Ed.Wells,\u2019 president of -the -Wells- Richardson Company, \u2018and of the Bur- | éngton \u2018Trust Company; Mr.Henry Wells, of the Wells-Richardæon Company; - Mr.Hilas Lyman, president of the Lyman Coal \u2018and Horse Railway eompanies of Burlington; .Dr.A.P.Grimneil, surgeon of the Central Vermont Rallway Company; Mr.Bennett Turk, Mr.H.W.Allen, Mr.D.W.Robiracn, Mr.A.G.Fierce, Mr.Lewis H.Turk, Mr.R.Roberts, Gen.T.S.Peck, .Adjutant-Generai of Vermont; Capt.8.8.\" Leach, Capt.Guy Howard, Cept.H.E.Tutherly, all of thé United States Regular Army.} tf SPECIAL NOTICE.For the party season get one of our \u201cCourt\u2019 dress shirts, a New York bow, a pair of.black silk socks, the whole outfit for a two dollar bill, and you will be in Une.Montreal Steam Laundry Co., 133 St.Peter street, 4 À BURLINGTON'S BLITE COMING TO MONTREAL so that there is no danger of further- Vote for Alderman Grifin who has lived in your ward for over 40 jours and who challen the strictest examination to hig public life.7 should Bt.Lawrence Ward be dictated to by a West End Clique and a newspaper ?a VOU 130 ; {3 J THINK OF GETTING TILING DONE?If so, we have tiles for all purposes.TILES FOR FLOORS, TILES FOR WALLS, TILES FOR FIREPLACES.\u2014\u2014 MOSAICS \u2014 Wood Mantels, new designs; Grates and Gas Logs.JORDAN & LOCKER, Practical Tile Layers and Setters, 1749 Notre Dame street.HE MONTREAL UNION ABATTOIR COMPANY.NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.A third call of ten percent (10 p.c.) on the Capital Stook of the Montreal Union Abattoir Company, has been made, and will be payable at the Company's Office, Nô.500 St.Paul street, on the 31st instant.By Order of the Board of Directors, T.DUBREUIL, , Secy.- Montreal, January 17, 1804.SALE JUDICIALLY AUTHORIZED.TUESDAY, the thirtieth day of January instant 1894), at 10 a.m., in the office of the undersigned otary, No.58 St.James street, in the City of real will be sold at auction, the hereinafter desori emplacement belonging, for one undivided half, to the community of property which has existed between Mr.Philias Vanier and Dame Salome Goulet, his late n° and for the other half, to Mr.Arsene Gonlet, An em lacoment fronting on Panet street\u2014being 41.6x 109 Known and designated as lots numbers thres hundred and twenty-four (324) and three hundred and twenty-five (335) on the official Lplan and in the Book of erence of the Bt.Marge ard, in the Clty of Montreal, with a house, Nos.187 and 159 of said Panet street, thereon erected.: For particulars apply to, : L.BELANGER, Notary.58 St, James st., and IG Visitation st.Epona SA eA PRI Are not in it.Tapestry Carpets, slightly damaged, from 19 \u2018cents upwards at our clearing sale.Don\u2019t mistake the mame and place.R.G.SILK & CO.Temporary Premises.871 St.James street.Phone 2843.ONE LITTLE GIRL IN BLUE The Other Died From a Neglected Cold.OF RED SPRUCE EUX \"WILL CURE A COLD IN SHORT SPACE.TRY IT! TRY IT! THE OLD RELIABDE REMEDY.KERRY, WATSON 23 a bottle.& CO., Proprictors, Sold Everywhere.A LITTLE SMOKE.Best Brussels, slightly damaged, worth $1.83 Net ean be purchased tor 70 cents, the\u2019 price of an ordimary Tapestry \u2018arpet, at our clearing sale.R.G.SILK & CO., Temporary Premises.371 St.James street.Phone 3843.J LECTORS OF ST.LAWRENCE WARD .Vote for Alderman Griffin who has lived in your\u2019 ward for over 40 years and who challe She strictest examination into his pivaté Iife.ould St.Lawrence Ward be dictated to by a West End Clique and à newspaper ?- Fa de, EA fa Lee er EH FOE rae a 47 ET rei AR gp TRE ELT i - oe .- oA 4 \u2014\u2014 Weekly Calendar WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17.HE THIRD OF THE SERIES of POPULAR CONCERTS in the Old Brew- Mission will be given in the.Hall of the Mission, g street, on DNESDAY EVENING, Jan, , at 8 o'cleck, Mr.F Ww.Holand, Musical J r.The following ladies and gentlemen have Ytnaly tendered their services: Miss Hollinshead, (seyrano) Mia.Belle Rose Emalie, Associate of Toronto of Music (Elocntionist) Miss Mabel Craig (pianist), M Allan, Watson, Ling, and Wheclor (Apollo Mandoiin Club), Master ¥than Holland, (cornet) and Messrs, Robertson, Melville, Greenwood and Holland.GEO.HODGE, Chairman.COLLECTION.RT ASSOCIATION OF MONTREAL, PHILLIPS SQUARE.Galleries Open Daily, 8 a.m.to dusk.ADMISSION, 95.SATURDAYS FREE.Reading Room Open to Members till 6 p.m.nservato ADIES\u2019 MEETINGS Will be held from 11 te 12 o'clock.EVERY DAY THIS WEEK \u2014IN THEW.©.T.U.EVANGELISTIC HALL, | St.Catherine street, opposite Victoris.Bubject :\u2014' Personal Consecration and Prayer for the Meetings to be held in February.\u2019 All ladies are invited.13 RAWING, DECORATIVE WORK, \u2014AND\u2014 FLOWER PAINTING IN OILS.Miss W, Stevenson, holding first-class certificates from Lamosth School of Art, London, Eng., and a upil of Prof.Vincent, London, 8.W.open a rawing and Painting Class, at the ¥.W.C.A., 161 Metonlfe street on Tuesday, Jan.16th, at 10 a.1n.Terms: Two dollars per month, for two lessons a week.Application for admission to the class and all further information may be obtained from the General Becretary of the Y.W.C.A.THURSDAY, JANUARY 18.WO GRAND RECITALS, DOUGLAS CHURCH HALL THURSDAY and .FRIDAY EVENINGS, 18th and 19h January.Under the Patronage of, SIR DONALD A.SMITH, K.C.M.G.; THURSDAY EVENINE PROGRAMME.1.Piano Solo\u2014Schozo.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.Chopin Mr.RUDOLPH LIEEICH.2.Reading\u2014Ballad of Cassandra Brown, .Helen Grey Cone Miss JESSIE ALEXANDER.8.Vooal Bolo\u2014Who Treads the Path of Duty.Mozart |.T .\u2018 ; Mr.8.DUNN 8 Goolridge MEVIB.oud ieenns .Busan - Beading JESSIE ALEXANDER.5.Vocal Bolo\u2014Never to Know.Theo.Marzisls Miss HOLLINSHEAD.6.Reading\u2014Friday Afternoon in a Primary School.Arranged by Miss ALEXANDER.1.(A) Spring Song.PROS eee A) Norwegian BONE .vvvnnrnianenrsss Greig Mr.RUDOLPH LIEBICH.Lo 2.Vocal Bolo\u2014The Skipper.:.1e0e0e Jude - Mr.8.DUNN.: .8.Reading\u2014Luke.,.crear Bret Harte Miss JESSIE ALEXANDER.4.Vocal 8olo\u2014-Golden Love.Wellings Miss HOLLINSHEAD.5.Reading \u2014Two So Qourtshi FRIDAY ÆVENIX6'S .P: \u201cPART L .+ 1.Piano Duet\u2014Ehapsodie Hongroise.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026,.biszt Miss CRAIG and Mr.E.A.HIU .2.Reading\u2014The Minister's Piddls.Kennedy Miss JESSIE ALEXANDER.3.Vocal Solo\u2014Love's Sorrow Miss HOLLINSHEAD.4 Reading Virginia rar ares ste nee nee ne ca000 Macaulay SIE .5.Reading\u2014FElocdtionary Lads.RER Miss JESSIE ALEX ANDER.6.Vecal Solo\u2014If thy Blue Eyes ee crereene C.Bohm Mr.BAR LQ Ww.4: 1.Pisano Duet-Klangeans der Feme.Ch.Vosa Miss ORAIG and Mr.HILTON.2 Vocol Solo\u2014The Children\u2019s Home.Mr.BARLOW wan 3.Reading\u2014Archie Dean.\".Gail Hamilton Miss JESSIE ALEXANDER.4.Vooal Solo\u2014Selected.Miss HOLLINSHEAD 5.Reading\u2014S3elected.Miss JESSIK.ALEXANDER Tickets good for either Recital, 30c.The Piano used on these occasions has been kindly loaned by Mr.C.W.LINDSAY.APITAL AND LABOR, AN ADDRESS BY MR.GEORGE HAGUE, General Manager of the Merchants Bank of Canada, THURSDAY EVENING at 8.13, Members Monthly Meeting, YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASBOCIATION, Musi Pt cal Programme by members of Crescent Street NOTABLE WOMEN.FIRST LECTURE \u2018MATILDA OF FLANDERS\u2019 Queen of William the Cenqueror.BY MRS.JOHN LOVELL.Women's Christian Association Hall.101 Metcalfe street.THURSDAY.Jan.18, at 8 p.m.ADMISSION 10 CENTS.16 Young HE CANADIAN SOCIETY \u2014 FOR TRE\u2014 .PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TÔ ANIMALS The annual meeting of this Society will be held at the office of the secretary-treasurer, St.James st.On Thursday, Jan.18, at 3 pan.The attendarce of all interested in the work of the Society is respectfully requested.By order, \u20ac.DURNFORD, \u2019 Sec.-Treas.& No.3,1.0.0.F.* The Regular Weekly Mesting of MIZPAH LODGE, D a (NS , the Lodge will Le hod TO-MOR- Be ROW (Thursday) EVENING, at Rica ELGHT o'clock, in their New Lodge Room, the new YM.C.A.Building, Dominion square.Every member is requested to present.Visitors cordially welcomed.By order of the N.G.E.L.GNAEDINGER, Rec.-Sec, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, À MONTREAL.INAUGURAL LECTURE.The Inaugural Leciure of Prof.H.L.CALLENDAR, M.A.Cantab., will be delivered On THURSDAY, Jan.13, 1894, at 3 p.m,, -\u2014 IN THE \u2014 WILLIAM MOLSON HALL SUBJECT : \u2018 À Pyrometric Laboratory.\u2019 Members of the Universit: ill i Library Sabon y will meet in the .B.\u2014The friends of the University may obtain Tickets from the undersigned.Members of the University are requested to appear in robes.J.W.BRALENRIDGE, B.C.L, Acli 3S .10th January, 189¢.ne Secretary 0 \u2018+ who belongs to a well-known Newfound- Weekly Calenda, Forure MEETINGS.CALEDONIAN SOCIETY'S BURNS\u2019 ANNIVERSARY DE THURSDAY, Jan.25, 1894, Will be held in BALMORAL HOTEL, 8.30 p.m.Conversazione, Songs aud Music of Burns.Address by the Rev.James Barclay._ TICKETS :\u2014Gentlomen, 81.50; Jadies, $1 ; to be had from members cf the Committee only.17 J.T.MITCHELL, Hon.Sec.\u201cA N) my JE XCURSION TO 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rates.: .The Daily Witness.WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1894.CANADA AND THE BOND-BLAINE - TREATY.A prominent merchant of this city, land family, and who is largely interested .in the trade between Canada and Newfoundland, enters a timely protest against the maintenance of Canada\u2019s pro- | 1and, unless Canada is-prepared to take ad- \u2018vantage of \"the Present splendid opportunity which offers for the negotiating of a comprehensive {realty between Canada, Newfoundland and the - United States, which will secures the commercial interests of both the British nations of America, #0 far as they can be secured, from the United States in return for the fisheries privileges which the United States wishes to secure.It will be remembered that Mr.Bond, on behalf of Newfoundland, and Mr.Blaine, on behalf of | test\u2019 against the Bond-Blaine treaty be-} \u2018{xtween the United States and.Newfound- THE MONTREAL having besn secured by the United States, yet Newfoundland has always remained dissatisfied because the treaty has not been allowed to go into force.It was understood \u2018at the time the sanction was refused by the Imperial Government that Canada would do her best to secure the privileges which she desired in return for the British fisheries from the United States, and thus admit of the Newfoundland treaty going into force at the earliest possible date.So far Canada has made little effort, her Government being really opposed to any wide measure of reciprocity with the United States, desiring rather to see the protection walls of both nations built up to the skies.in order to restrict trade and commerce between their peoples.The Newfoundland merchant, in his letter,\u2019 urges that Canada should make a great effort to negotiate such a treaty, or by showing a willingness to reciprocate to secure the freest possible trade relations with the United States, now that a tariff reform administration and Congresg are at work upon the reduction of the United .States tariff, and that the Canadian Government, in view of all that is promised to Canada by the Wilson tariff, should show its friendliness both toward Newfoundland and the United States by withdrawing its protest against the Bond- Blaine treaty.There is obvious force in this argument.While Canada stands to gain a great deal of what she wants frcm the United States by the Wilson bill, Newfoundland, it appears, will not be much benefited, {If at all, by that measure, which, according to 'Newfoundlander,\u201d places even higher duties upon fish and fish producis than did the famous McKinley tariff.It seems to us that what should be done at this juncture js for Canadian and Newfoundland statesmen to go together to Washington and try to arrange for reciprocal reductions or abolitions of duties with the promoters of the tariff reform bill in the United States Congress.There is certainly danger in Canada\u2019s attitude toward Newfoundland, and bestdes by arousing and maintaining ill-feeling, it prevents all development of the confederation movement on the island.Canada should do its best at the earliest possible moment to render the maintenance of her protest unnecessary.THE ANGLICAN SENOD, = A CRITICISM AND CONTRAST OF LOCAL HOSPITALS, MANY OTHER INTERESTING MATTERS.| The Notre Laine Hospital, though & Roman Catholic institution, and dffect-' ly under the control of Archbishop Fabre, is largely supported by Protestant money.Any one.who takes the trouble to read the lists of contributors as they appear from time to time in the \u2018Witness,\u2019 will see how greatly the Protestants outnumber the Roman Catholics.Possibly it is not generally known that no Protestant clergyman can enter this institution, unless he is able to name the patient he desires to the United States, negotiated a treaty by which Newfoundland was to grant to the United States wide fishing privileges and lower tariff rates on American exports, while the United States was to ad- see.That is to say, though there may be, and generally are, a large number of Protestant patients in the hospital, they are not allowed to see a Protestant clergyman unless that clergyman happens to know them by name, which is equivalent to saying that all such pa- mit free of duty or at lower rates of duty Newfoundland fish and fish products.| This treaty, if it had been sanctioned and had gone into operation, would have worked harm in two ways to Canada.In the first place, it would have tended to increase the United States exports to Newfoundland at the expense- of those of Canada, and in the second place it would have thrown open the fisheries to Americans, thus enabling them to compete on even terms with Canadians, while Canada would have received no corresponding advantages in return.Canadian statesmen had no right to object on the first of theme grounds to the treaty, as the pelicy which has obtained in Canada of arranging our fiscal policy to suit ourselves, no matter who suffers, the motherland or whoever else, bars Canada from standing on such grounds.But they did protest against the treaty on the second ground, urging that the fisheries in British America were British, and as such the property of Canadians and all peoples of all the empire as of Newfoundland, and that they should only be dealt with as British fisheries, and as a whole for the good of both Canada and New- fvundland, which were interested.They urged that the fisheries had always thus been dealt with, and they déclared that if the Bond-Blaine treaty, granting privileges to the fishermen of the United States in Newfoundland waters, were allowed to go into force it would have the effect of depriving Canada of the power of securing commercial advantages from the United States by means of these British fisheries privileges.The Imperial Government acted upon Canada\u2019s protest, and refused to sanction the Bond-Blaine treaty, with the result that commercial war was declared between Canada and Newfoundland, and each did its best to injure the other by cutting off its own nose.A peace was patched up, but the sore feeling remains, and though 1t was discovered that the Bond- Blaine treaty was not calculated to benefit Newfoundland as much as was at first.tients are without the consolation of their religion.A similar rule prevails at the Hotel Dieu, where there is also à considerable number of Protestant patients.In the Montreal General Hospital, which ig à Protestant institution, maiptair ec by Protestant money, priests and nuns ean\u2019go and do go through the place at will finding out their oo-religionists (who, brought in from all parts of the city and province), are unknown to ihem by name, and ministering to them in their own faith.P These statements were made before the Synod yesterday afternoon in the annual report of the works of mercy, by the Rev.Mr.McManus, city missionary, who, over his signature, pointed out this condition of things in the two institu- \u201ctions, and contrasted the liberai treatment accorded to Roman Catholics in the General Hospital.The subject will later.In the meantime, the simple faots of the | End aldermen who refused to pass a vote of appreciation to Sir Donald Smith and Lord Mount-Stephen ; to Recorder De Montigny, who went out of his way to pass strictures; and to the French press, which vented its anger\u2014 because, according to the charter of the Royal Victoria Hospital, eight of the elective members of the Board of Governors were to be of the Protestant faith.Canon Anderson, as the convener of the committee on Sabbath observance, usually presents a most interesting report to the Synod.Yesterday afternoon he was loudly applauded for the eloquence which marked the account of the work of this committee.He went over the ground of the opening of the World's Fair upon the Lord's Day.There was a note of pride in the recording of the fact that so many tens of thousands of Christians refused to visit the Fair in consequence of the breach of agreement with the nation, and when he came to the British and Canadian departments, which contained so much of worth, art and beauty, silent and closed on the Lord\u2019s Day, with the metéor flag of England, which had braved the baittle and the breeze for a thousand years, floating over a silent exhibit, to testify regard for the day which God had made a rest day for his family, there was loud applause in the Synod.The report scorched those corporations in Montreal and Canada generally which systematically broke the Lord's Day with their supposed, the biz end of the bargain street cars, their boats and their trains, A f Hea come up before the Synod for discussion may be commended to the eeonsideration.| DAILY WITNESS.compelling the poor workmen to work seven days for a miserable wage and robbing them of their God-given rest.The grand truth of universal brotherhood was being recognized in this Saturday evening of the nineteenth century.To hasten the full acceptance of it, let the Church speak with no uncertain voice on this subject.Nature cried out for the seventh day rest.God had solemnly commanded it.And, by insisting upon the right of the masses to it, the Church would be hastening that millennial time when man to man the world over, would be brothers in cooperation and fellowship.There were no special features In the temperance report presented by the Rev.Dr.Ker, except that there was a very decided protest against the notion that the Church of God should have anything to do with the management of saloons.\u2018The council trusM that the Church of England, here or elsewhere, will never descend so low as to have anything to do with the sale or management of liquor selling.\u201d (Applause.) There was an animated debate over the manner of voting for the executive committee and the representatives of the Provincial Synod.This question of voting has in years past given rise to a good deal of fecling.It has been claimed \u2018that there has been partyism; that the caucus determined the election, and not the free will of the two orders; that before the balloting came off the election had been virtually decided.The executive committee recommended the following: That the voting take place between the hours of 2 p.m.and 3 p.m.on the second day of the session of the Synod.List of members and ballot papers will be distributed on the first day of the session.Six ballot boxes, one for each election and each order, will be placed in the ante-rooms of the Synod, in charge of one lay and one clerical delegate for each ballot box.Scrutineers will, before permitting the deposit of a ballot, see that the name of the voter ts on the printed list of members of the Synod, as furnished by the scrutineers.Ballots containing fewer names than the \u2018full number to be elected shall be counted; those containing more shall not.In counting the ballots the scrutineers shall count the whole vote, lay and clerical together, for the executive committee and the Diocesan Court.The ballot for the delegates to the Provincial Synod, being by orders, shall be counted separately.Dr.Davidson, though a member of the | executive, objected to the printing of the names of the previous executive | commitfee on the ballot papers.There was, of course, no intention in this of ipfluencing the Synod to vote for the | 01d body, but names had an influence, and their presence on the paper might have an undue effect.They should not be there, and he certainly took strong ground against the proposal to make ue, man who voted.for more than the requisite number suffer the forfeiture of his vote, while \u2018the man who voted for less had his vote counted.Why #fould one man be punished and the other receive recognition?Mr.W.Owens defended the system at some length, while the Rev.Mr.Baylis insisted that to count the lesser | ballot was far more dangerous than to count that which exceeded the num- bet.~The resolution of the executive car- red; but almost Immediately after- .wards the Rev.Mr.Fyles introduced a motion looking to the amendment of the canon by which the deaneries would have the power of electing their representatives to the Provincial Synod, instead of such election being made by the Synod, as at present; which method, it was contended, had the effect of putting certain persons on the committee to the exclusion of others who had given long and faithful service to the church.The present method had the effect of ignoring the country members, and placing the city members in positions of honor.\u2018The eity fellows are mighty good fellows, in fact they are the cream, my lord, but I rather think the dose is a little too strong.\u201d These were the sentiments of the Rev.Mr.Clayton.Chancellor Bethune and Dr.Butler took the ground that the motion of Mr.Fyles was out of order, because the present method was in accordance with thé act of Parliament, but Dr.David- | Son quoted from the act itself to show that the Synod could alter the method of voting and decide that the deaneries should send in the names to the Synod if it so desired.Canon Norton made a strong appeal to the Synod not to rob itself of its two grandest distinetions\u2014the power of election to the Provincial Synod and the | executive committee.To take away these powers would be to degrade the Synod.(No, no, \u2018Yes, yes\u201d) Suppose the power were delegated to the -deaneries.And suppose that executive committee were elected in a similar way, what would remain for this Synod ?What would give it a status or a dignity ?Already there were murmurings against the executive committee, but their present respected bishop never touched that committee but to improve \u2018it.But that might not be the case with the diocesan head in the future.\u2018By delegating their powers to the deaneries, about whose workings they knew but little, the actual powers of the Synod would pass into the hands of the diocesan, and the Synod would be reduced to impotence.(Hear, hear.) Rural Dean Naylor held that the change would strengthen -the Church, and the Rev.Mr.Horsey pointed out that of seventeen members of the executive, only three came from the country.The Rev.Mr, Clayton warmly protested against the churchwardens, who did most of the work of the Chureh, stirring the people up, and getting the poor clergyman his stipend, being ignored.These elections should take place at the deanery meetings, and this would save the city clergy \u2018the distress of.having to leave their parishes to attend committee meetings.(Laugh'ter.) There were several other speeches, but in the result, Mr.Fyles\u2019s motion, though it was supported by a great show af eloquence and argument, was lost, ani the Synod, by its vote, determined to cen- tinue to directly elect on the foor of the House representatives to the Provincial Synod.In moving the resolution of thanks to God for the recovery of the Bishop, which was given in the \u2018Witness\u2019 last evening, Dr.Davidson made a most delicate, graceful and affecting speech, while the Dean of Montreal, in seconding the motion, moved the Synod with his impressive manner, and heartfelt eloquence.\u2018There are moments,\u2019 he sadd.\u2018when it annears almost imnossi- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1804, ble to give full expression to the feelings of sincere gratitude to God experlenced by one or many hearts.This, My Lord, is such a moment, for as one brings afresh to mind the hours of gloomy anxiety which pressed down the hearts of thousands, and sees your Lordship to-day in health and strength, one cannot but feel that no language can fitly describe that united gratitude to God which fills the hearts of all your clergy and laîty.Indeed, My Lord, if such a thing were needed as a fresh assertion of our fealty your Lordship possesses :t in full today, as with one heart and soul this whole Synod gives grateful praise to that God, who, If in his providence, brought your head low, in gentler providence raised it once again.\u2019 | The following are the committees, as they were drafted yesterday: \u2014 Finance committee\u2014Rev.Canon Elle- good (convener), Canon Rollit, J.W.Garland, Dr.Norton, Messrs.Charles Garth, Hon.Thos.Wood, W.Owens, Col.Hanson, R.W.Sheppard, Jr.Committee on canons\u2014Archdeacon Lindsay, the Dean; Revs.Canon Henderson, E.Wood, Canon Fulton, Cano Anderson, I.Constantine, W.R.Brown, Dr.Norton, W.B.Longhurst, J.G.Baylis, G.Osborne Troop, Canon Mussel, Messrs.Chancellor Bethune, Q.C., (convener), L.H.Davidson, Q.C., T.P.Butler, Q.C., John Crawford, Hon.Judge Tait.Committee on church provision for the lumber districts\u2014Revs.W.H.Nay- lor (convener), Canon Rollit, WwW.P.Chambers, T.E.Cunningham, E.R.Smith, H.Plaisted, N.A.F.Bourne, W.Harris, W.Sanders, R.C.Brewer, Messrs.R.W.Shepherd, John Crawford, James Bourne.Committee on foreign missions\u2014Rev.L.N.Tucker, the Dean, Revs.Canon Mills, J.Ker, J.F.Renaud (convener), Canon Anderson, A.French, H.W.Nye, Canon Davidson, G.Osborne Troop, Archdeacon Lindsay, Archdeacon Evans, R.D.Mills; W.Windsor, Messrs.E.P.Hamnaford, R.W.Shepherd, Dr.L.x.Davidson, Q.C., George Hague.Committee on Education \u2014Archdeacons Lindsay (convener) and Evans, Rev.Canons Ellegood, Anderson and Henderson, Revs.H.W.Nye, Canon Mussen, EE.McManus, W.H.Naylor, J.D.Borth- wick, Canons Mills and Davidson, L.N.Tucker, Dr.Norton, A.French, W.P.Chambers, W.B.Longhurst, F.R.Smith, J.F.Ranand, G.Osborne Troop, F.H.Clayton, E.I.Rexford, Messrs.Dr.L.H.Davidson, Dr.Alex.Johnson, E.R.Smith, Hon.Judge Tait, Major Westover, R.H.Buchanan.Committee on Sunday-schools\u2014The Dean, Revs.Canon Mussen, C.P.Abbott, Canom Davidson, Archdeacon Evans, J.W.Garland, Canon Mills, W.Robinson, Arohdeacon lindsay, J.Ker, W.Weaver, J.G.Baylis, Dr.Norton, L.N.Tucker, all the rural deans, Dr.L.H.Davidson, easrs.A.F.Gault, H.J.Mudge, R.H.Buchanan (convener) W.H.Robinson.Works of mercy\u2014Revs.H.J.Evans (convener), J.H.Dixon, F.R.Smith, J.F.Renaud, Canon Henderson, J.D.Berthwick, the Dean, Dr.Norton, Canon EHegood, R.I.Hewton, W.Robinson, E.McManus and Messrs.W.Drake, J.W.Marling and L.Lewis.Printing\u2014Messrs.C.Garth, R.White, E.R.Smith, J.W.Marling, Revs.Canon Mussen (convener), F.H.Clayton,Canons Rollit and Simpson.Superannuation fund \u2014 Archdeacons Evans (convener) and Lindsay, Rev.Canons Davidson, Mills and Mussen, Revs.W.B.Longhurst, G.O.Troop, Messrs.F.Bond, Dr.Davidson, J.W.Marling, J.H.Redfern, R.White, E.P.Hannaford, E.Judge, E.R.Smith, F.Wolferstan Thomas and George Drummond.French work\u2014Rev.D.Lariviere (convener), Archdeacons Lindsay and Evans, the Dean, Rev.Canon Davidson, H.W.Nye, Canon Mussen, B.P.Lewis, Canon Anderson, T.E.Cunningham, J.F.Renaud, Canon Rollit, H.Plaisted, L.G.A.Roberts, W.Robinson, S.Massey, J.H.Dixon and Messrs.L.H.Davidson, À.F.Gault and G.F.C.Smith.Deaconesses\u2014The Lord Bishop (convener), the Dean, Archdeacon Lindsay, Rev.Canons Henderson, Ellegood, Mills, Messrs.C.Garth, Dr.Davidson, the Chancellor, Dr.Butler, A.F.Gault, R.White, J.W.Marlipg, Rev.Canon Davidson and other clergy in the city, Rural Dean Naylor, Messrs.Judge Tait, G.Lightbound, John Crawford, W.W.L.Chipman and S.Cansley.Statistics\u2014The archdeacons and rural deans, Canon Mussen (convener), and Rev.J.Ker Dunham Ladies\u2019 College\u2014Ven.Archdeacon Lindsay (convener), the Dean, Canons Mussen, Henderson and Davidson, Revs.W.H.Naylor, John Ker, W.P.Chambers, F.Charters (secretary), A.French, W.Robinson, W.Windsor, J.H.Dixon, E.I.Rexford, Messrs.C.Garth, the Chancellor, Dr.Davidson, J.C.McKinnon, J.Baker, J.Bruce Payne, J.Forgraves.Church Immigration and Colonization \u2014Revs.W.H.Naylor, F.R.Smith, H.Plaigted, W.P.Chambers (convener), all the Rural Deans.H.Gomery, Hon.Judge Tait, Messrs.H.J.Mudge, F.Wolferstan Thomas, George Sumner, Major Westover, Edgar Judge, Alex.Robentson.Committee on Quebec plan\u2014Mr.Judge, Mr.Drake, Archdeacon Lindsay, Rev.J.H.Dixon, Dr.Butler, Dr.Davidson (convener), Rev.Rural Dean Longhurst, Rev.E.I.Rexford, Mr.W.Owens.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ENGLISH CANADIANS.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\") Sir,\u2014I think it is about time that English Canadians were heard from.As far as my knowledge goes Mr.Tarte's opinion of us is not correct.If we were not really Canadians first we would not remain in \u2018the country.We have been told often enough that we were not wanted here.1 am of the second generation.We number ninety-eight of the name and count three generations in this country and not one of us has returned to the Old Country for move than an ordinary tour, and none of us have any inclination to do otherwise.JOHN FORD.Portneuf, Jan.9, 1894._ + \u2018 A NOTED SWINDLER ESCAPES.Atlanta, Jan.16.\u2014 \u2018Lord\u2019 Beresford, who was convicted in Rome, Ga., last year, for forgery, and sentenced to serve five years in the State penitentiary, escaped from the convict camp at Kramer last night.He boarded a train for Florida, and it Is supposed has made arrangements to sail from a southern CANADA SHOULD NOT STAY} BETWEEN NEWFOUNDLANT AN THE UNITED STATIS.(To the Editor of the \u2018Wit ee.Sir,\u2014More than one report bye .peared in the newspapers of li.ing that Newfoundland is Press ' English Government to give its 4 the Bond-Blaine treaty.It looks like an absurdity tq an sider to find the Newfoundlan | © ment driving away at a qvin: there sems little likelihond of - ting this treaty into operation that Mr.Blaine is dead.an Government then in power a: M ton has been turned out, and r.- and a different policy are hrine - on reciprocity and tariff arrar.But it is not the treaty thu: foundland Government is fight.n.is the \u2018principle of the thnz they are to be over-ruled by ©u allowed to govern themselves.7 test which (Canada filed agafr« foundland still stands in force w English Government, and whi.mains there Newfound'and hu- - &ble chance of arranging a.mercial treaties with the States.When we look back at ° tory it is very easy for us t.the many mistakes that have t.by short-sighted politicians, ar : .one that Canada should re | va quickly as possible.If the Bond-Blaine treaty vas ation to-day there is no ques that the Wilson Tariff now t- gress would have special claus.ing + to Canada privileges ; granted to Newfoundlan-.J- this wbat do we find, but ev - comprehensive tariff against ©.ducts than that compiled 1 himself.If such is the coute x is the use of Canada Mmaintaiz : .« tset against Newfoundland it from making a fishery \u2018ren: thing is very plain and tha: the Wilson tariff now atan i.has no possible chance of .included in the free impor:s Does it not look very = -h : part of Canada to pursue such 5 especially when she wiil in bilities gain many advan! vo.ber, agricultural and miners: etc, while Newfoundland, pends on her one staple t=» is handicapped altogether i.which her unnatural sist-r oo, 3 against her.It may be well asked at tH.- : What possible chance is there foundland to do any beter v- United States than has Leen Canada ?The easieat wav te this question is to remind the « of the very unpleasant relat: » occurred between Newfound: .Canada just two years ago; nt, which partly arose in COR Sr : of the Newfounrdland Govern:r°> hibiting Canadian filsherm-n fron ting any supply of bait ish «> shore, and therefcre preventir, to a large extent from proseceu: - Bank codfishery, and also = them out altogether from + \u2018- .Aa the winter frozen herrings.caf words, Newfound'ard holds :- ce the prosecution of these fisher: » if she wished, could pinch the Au: fishermen to a far grewter exten! she can the Canadians.How is it our Canadian politician not see it in this light.Instead of testing and trying to prevent > foundland from making an arru ment, Canada should à ES now give foundland a free hand, and help © every way to get the bhéesi > - sible arrangement for free fish.Ki.© that it is certain to be extendad - nadians sooner or later.Here is Canada, sending a deleg: Washington threatening to put an ** port duty on logs unless lumber :: mitted free, while at the sam- standing in her own light by prevr = a Newfoundland poNtician from a; ing at Washington and saying.\u2019 do not put fish on the free list w- prevent you fron getting bait, ar: destroy one of your principal fish Let us look at this matter in anc light.Here are Canadian millers .manufacturers of all kinds look.ng new markets for thelr products, every year sees a large number of dian travellers finding their wa Newfoundland, and year after shows an increase of Canadian ex; to Newfoundland, and a diminution trade with the United States.It are to find Increased markets our products we must not hr per our customers from exte: ing their trade and increasing their p - chasing power or the restriction of th trade must re-act on ourselves.It 5 time that all animosities between Can.» and Newfoundland should cease.he best of good will has always exist: !' tween Canadian and Newfoundla : ermen, and it is certainly not by °° sire of either of them \u2018taht the ~~ prevented from getting the best possible for his goods.1t ig a air altogether of our politicians whn causing trouble where no trouble = exist.NEWFOUNDLAN Montreal, Jan.16, 1894.\u2014 CURIOUS TIDE ON LAKE ONTAT Lake Ontario is exempt from but in Cataraqui bay there is wha navigators call \u2018a tide\u2019 of ten in\" * one foot, caused evidently by ~~ quent westerly winds on Lake RE forcing the water to a higher the gradually contracied area 1\" the bay.An old captain says it and goes, and is so well know\u2019 when his boat happens lo + through missing the channel.he < waits for the \u2018tide\u2019 to again fw During a continuous calm of = more days the rise and fall censé effect of wind upon water is an >.\" ing study.It is on record that a == wind once backed the waters C! Erie up to such an extent that N i Falls nearly ran dry.\u2014Toeronio Mal \u2014- > WEATHER REPORT.(Special to the \u201cWitness.) Meteorological O\u2018ce, Toronto.Ont 17.\u201411 a.m.\u2014Foliowing are the TT\" temperatures :-\u2014Calgary, 4: Qu'Anpesr low; Winnipeg, zero; Toronto, 28.M\" vy zero; Quebec, 4; Halifax, 10.Probat 1.for the next twenty-four hours:\u2014 Eas:°\u201d7 winds; fair and cold to-day; snow or ra.tr ta \u2019 cep port to England, morrow.EXPER hand the t writt Mr.Mat on W ears nds were of Pi John, was | same the \u20ac the S exact Jetter my © hand.and 1 the J and © Cro Q.\u2014D fore temp and | A.\u2014 end Burge Mr.pruss Dr.C a bo On tl McEa first \u20ac the p hour.with : a dra.st wa drach alive, died : killed third death.and p peratu point.of Ih Phyet say tl} soned sltuld cefve- FC I then gave « vf siiv soft jars ar of the tests 1 Prof analyz Whe! were «¢ The c: not ha not be Prof.and he the po If th stoma: that t\u2019 by the The 1 covere.in the 94, me, cs [AND > AND 38.7) as ape Stat- ng the sent to ln out- rovern- when eT get- seeing en thy ishing.V ideas ursued ments, Naw.for; it hether ada or he pro- New.th the ll re.O pos- 7 \u2018om- Utint-4 ne his- riticise 1 Made this ig dy as ) Oper- n but 2 Con- xten:l- {lousy ad of , More Y Dro- Kiniey what a pro- revent One hat as anada &g fish n the policy, proba- lum- ducts, ch de- neries, rotest ntaing oint.\u2014 Nex- h the forded ngwer adiana ; that ; ar! ult! juen 2 t pro- 1 get their them Zz the utting ng 4a: a few ey to , and erican , than ans do f pro- New- \u2018ange- New- it in pos- owing to Ca- ate to n ex- ts ad- time enting ppear- £ vou e will d will erles noite 3 anti 1x for and Cana - LY lo year xporis ion of If we s for ham- xtend- ir pur- f their It anada The ed bed fish- he de- her i8 price |gtax?o air3 should ND.ARIO.tides.at old hes to e fre- ntario vel in rming comes ) that round simply yat it.Ro or The terest- strong Lake fagara tail.\u201d Jan.rAmurm , 6 be- ontreal.ybilities asterly ain to- WenyESD AY, JANUARY 17, 1894.THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.p\u2014\u2014\u2014 re \u2014\u2014\u2014 \u201c0 WROTE THE LETTERS?AN EFFORT TU PROVE THAT IT WAS MRS.HOOPER.\u2018 ENCE HEARD\u2014 MORE MEDICAL TELLS HOW g3PERT EVID TESTIMONY\u2014PROF.ADAMI PRUSSIC ACID ACTS ON DOGS.(Special to the \u2018Witness.\u201d) Joliette, Que.Jan.17.\u2014The first wit- pes in the Hooper case yesterday af- eernoon was Mrs.Joseph Malo, mother- m-law of deceased.She said: \u2018I know deceased, Georgiana Leblanc, well, and 1 know her handwriting very well, as 1 often corresponded with her.She was then given two letters written by de- esased and said, T am sure they are in the nandwriting of deceased.\u2019 Kate Hooper, sister of accused, and widow of Ed.Baulch, said: I live in port Hope.I am familiar with the pandwriting of deceased and recognize the !WO letters handed to me as being rue by deceased.\\ir.Wm.Weir, manager of the Ville Marte Bank, was called as an expert op writing.He said: For the past forty years 1 have closely examined different ginds of handwriting.The two letters wore handed to witness and the slips of paper with the words \u2018Good bye, John, I am gonlg to drown,\u201d and he was asked if they were written by the æme person.He sald: \u2018I am sure that tha signature on the two letters and the signature on the slip of paper are exactly the same.The body of the letters and the words on the slip, In my opinion, were written by the same band.This piece of evidence caused A MARKED COMMOTION and Mr.Greenshields had Mr.Weir go to the jury and show them the two letters and :he slip of paper.Cross-examined by Mr.Macmaster\u2014 Q.\u2014Don\u2019t you notice that the writer be- tore making the word \u2018Georgiana\u2019 \u2019attempted to make \u2018the \u2018G\u2019 \u2018and failed, and then began another \u2018G.\u2019 A\u2014I notice there is a blot before the name \u2018Georgiana\u2019 but I cannot make a \u2018' out of it.x Q.\u2014And you call yourself an expert on writing Mr.Weir ?A.\u2014I am considered so.Q.\u2014Are you aware, Mr.Weir, that a fev years ago a number of experts swore that a certain signature was that of the late celebrated Charles Parnell, when later on ft was proven that it was no: his signature ?A.\u2014I am aware \u201cnat such was the case but to the best of my knowledge the writing on the pa- er and the writing on the letters is the same.Prof.Fafard.of I.aval University, de- peed as follows: Last Wednesday Prof, Adami gave me the viscera of two dogs that had been poisoned with prus- sic acid.Decomposition was far advanced.In four other bottles were the biood and- brains of the dogs.Prof.Physter and I analyzed the matter and found traces of \u2018the poison.We even, discovered it.by the smell.\u2019 t~ piSHBES Cross-examined by Mr.Cornelfter\u2014The dogs hed been poisoned twelve days before.k would be easier to find trace of the poison in a body buried in winter \u2018han in summer.According to my experience prussic acid ean be found in an edvanced state of putrefaction.I have heard of cases where the poison covid not be found twenty-four hours after death.PROF.ADAMI TESTIFIES.- Professor Adami, of McGill College, being sworn, said: I am a Master of Arts and a member of the Royal School of Surgeons, England.I was asked by Mr.Greenshields to try the effect of prussic acid upon animal life.Frôm Dr.Cameron, on Dec.29 last, I received à botde of two percent prussic acid.On the same day 1 received from Dr.MeEachran three large hounds.The first dog only got a half of a drachm of the prussic acid and died in about an hour.The third dog I also tried to kill with a small dose and only gave it half à drachm.At the end of an hour I saw }: was recovering.I then gave it a \u2018rachm.An hour later, as it was still alive, I gave it a drachm and a half.It ded at once.Thus the first dog was rillel with a half drachm, while the *hird dog took three drachms to cause deaich.I then took the bodies upstairs and put them in a broken box.The tem- nerature of the room was about freezing point.On Tuesday, Jan.19, in presence «?Dr.J.C.Cameron and Professor Physter, I examined the dogs.I should say that the second dog was also poi- smed by prussic acid.On removing the skull of the firæt dog, which had re- celved the small dose, I FOUND THE ODOR OF THE POISON I then used the silver nitrate test, which save characteristic crystals of cyanide of silver.The brains of the dogs were soft and congested.I took four glass jars and placed the stomach and brains of the dogs therein.These were all the tests I made.I then gave the bottles to Prof.Physter and Prof.Fafard to analyze.When Professors Fafard and Physter were experimenting I was not present.\u201che crystals of cyanide of silver would rot have been found if prussic acid had rot been present.I was preserit when Prof.Ellis of Toronto gave evidence and heard the tests he had made to find \u2018ze poison.If there had been prussic acid in the \u201comach of the deceased, do you think \u2018nat the poison would have been found the tests made by Prof.Ellis ?A.\u2014 he tests should ceftalnly have dis- \u2018Mvered the poison if there had been any à the stomach.One hundred thou- \u2018indth of a grain of prussic acid has nn discovered When making certain \u20188.I think it would have been hard- ©» find the poison in the dogs than it Tod have been in Mrs.Hooper, con- \u201cine all the clrcumstances of her 470 and burial.I do not know that THE POISON IS HARDER TO FIND \u201cta human body than in the body of ina La.\u201d>=-Pxamined by Mr.Macmaster\u2014Q., {70 Judge from what I have heard voopu (VTla5s say that the state of pu- rep gen in the dogs would correspond a the state of putrefication of the Sara 2° deceased when the autopsy was \"51 A\u2014T put the body of the dogs in a .\u2018 Warm room for six hours soon after à ai can eme duo LEE Se RER ECRIRE MT ART death, as I heard the deceased was exposed to the alr for some thirty-six hours before death.Q.\u2014Did you ever make an autopsy upon a human body who had died from this poison ?A.\u2014I did not.Q.\u2014Do not certain authors say that the odor of prussic acid cannot be detected in certain cases when being administered ?A.\u2014They do; yet such statements are only general, and I cannot agree with them.Q.\u2014When making experiments, at times, the poison cannot be detected by the odor when other traces of it can be found?A.\u2014I know Profs.Ellis and Stewart and they are both very eminent men.It is true that at times experiments do not always show the same results, In my opinion the authors who say the poison could hardly be found after eight days were writers of fifty years ago, while the writers who say it can be found even months after death are writers of recent date.In a doubtful case of poisoning by this acid it might be wiser to have the blood tested.I think the process of evaporation 1s slower after death in animals than in human beings owing to the difference in the foundation of the skin.Q.\u2014Then the odor of the poison should be more easily detected in animals than in human beings after death?A.\u2014It might be the three animals I poisoned were the only experiments I have made with the poison upon dogs.There is no evidence that the state of putrefica- tion upon the body affects the decomposition of the acid.Dr.James Chalmers Cameron of Montreal, professor in McGill College, sald: was held upon the dogs.The odor was discovered in two of the dogs when the brains were removed.Cross-examined by Mr.Macmaster\u2014I was looking for the odor.I am not aware that Dr.Elks, of Toronto, was not especially looking for the odor.rer YOUNG CONSERVATIVES RAMPANT.x THEY DECLARE FOR M'OARTHYS NORTH-WEST SCHOOL POLICY.(Special to the \u2018Witnéss.\u2019) Toronto, Jan.16.\u2014The attorney-gene- ral\u2019s department expects to get a prohibition test case heard by the Supreme Court next month, and that judgment will be rendered by May.A sensation has been caused by the Young Conservative Association carrying by a majority of one vote the Mc- Carthyite resolution on the Manitoba school question.The Young Conservatives voted entire approval of the Manitoba.Government's course, and resolved that the forcing of separate schools in Manitoba would be a legislative crime._\u2014\u2014\u2014 THEY WANT PURE MOLASSES.Halifax, N.S., Jan.16.\u2014At the annual meeting of the Board of Trade this afternoon a resolution was passed, cooperating with the St.John Board of Trade in urging the Dominion Government to prevent the importation from the United States, under the name of melasses, of an inferior mixture of molasses, glucose and syrup.\u2018 It was also Govérament to: raise the standand sugar from No.14 to No.16 Dutch standard.rer KILLED IN THE WOODS.Norval, Ont., Jan.16.\u2014Yesterday Mr.Wm.McLaughlin and his brother went out to the woods to cut timber.While engaged in sawing a \u2018tree which had been lodged between two others, the tree sprang back, striking Mr.McLeughlin in the temple, Killing him instantly.Mr.MeLaughlin was highly esteemed by all who knew him.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 RULED AGAINST THE GAMBLERS.Victoria, B.C., Jan.16.\u2014The celebrated gamibli: case, where a man named Mc- Connell, charged Garvin and others with fleecing him in a card game, was decided to-day, Judge Crease awarding \u2018he plaintiff $400 and costs.The judge denounced strongly saloons .and places where gambling was permitted all night to the ruin of young men, who were induced to play.ee INDIA\u2019S WHEAT CROP.Calcutta, Jan.16.\u2014The first report of thie season\u2019s wheat crop in the Pun- jaub province has been reported.Prospects are unusually good.The area planted shows an increase of six percent over that of the preceding crop.OBITUARY.On Mênday morning the wife of Mr.James Johnston, Princess streat, Kin- cardine, passed peacefully away \u2018to rest, in the seventy-first year of her axe.Deceased was born in County Down, Ireland, near Belfast, and with her husband resided for about four years in Liverpool, before coming to Canada in 1847.After residing in Brockville and Brantford \u2018they came to Kincardine in 1855.For nearly forty years deceased had been a resident of this town and during the whdle of that time had not only been a citizen who had enjoyed the highest respect of the community, but had done good wherever she found it to do.She was a beautiful type of a Christian lady, and very many with whom she came in contact were greatly bene- ited by her counseu.Her kindness of heart was without bounds.No poor person ever applied to her in vain.The afflicted and those in distress always found in Mrs.Johnston a ministering angel.She was a member of the Knox Presbyterian Church and always took an active and intelligent part in promoting the schemes of the church.When first taken fll, about & monith ago, with la grippe, her family were summoned to her bedside, the worst having been feared, the action of her heart being weak.Dr.Johnston remained a few days, and the Rev.R.Johnston only returned \u2018to his home in Lindsay on Saturday last.Her daughters, Mrs.' Warren, of Walkerton, and Mrs.Hodgkins, of Toronto, have been here.The last hours of the life of Mrs.Johnston were sweetened by the almost constant attendance of her devoted husband and affectionate children.\u2014XKincardine (Ont.) \u2018Reporter,\u2019 Jan.11.\u2014__ pes SPEOIAL NOTICE.The Montreal Steam Laundry Co?s Shirts ere the best.Try them.133 St.Peter street.17 = I also was present when the autopsy resolved \u2018to memorialize the Dominion VAILLANT'S DAUGHTER MISSING.Paris, Jan.16\u2014The daughter of the condemned Anarchist, Vaillant, has disappeared.It is supposed that she has been kidnapped by som dian.There has been &onsiderable discussion as to who should have the care of VaiKant's child after he had been put to death.The Duchess d'Uzes offered to educate her, but Vaillant expressed a preference that her bringing up should be entrusted to a friend of his, a cabinet-maker named Haytz.COMMERCIAL.WITNESS OFFICE, Wednesday, Jan.17, 1894 WHOLESALE PRICES.Beerbohm's cable advices to-day are as follows : Cargoes off coast, wheat, the demand for Fradce coutinues; maize nil, Cargoes on passage and for shipment, wheat, inactive ; maize weaker.Mark Lane English wheat, very quiet: do.foreign quiet.Mark Lane American and Danubian maige, quiet but stealy; do.English and Ameri can flour, slow, French country markets, firnder.Liverpool spot wheat, very little demand; do, spot maize, very little demand.in New York wheat opened.14 of a cent per bushel lower at 69Léc May and was afterwards quoted at 673§c Marcb,693{c May.Receipts, 1,650 bushels and ehipmente, 91,469 bushels.Corn opened steady at 4434c May and was later quoted at 4814c March, ddigc May.Receipts, 282,900 bushels ; and shipments, 71,468 bushels.In Chicago wheat opened 34 of a cent per bushel lower at 643¢c May, apd 54 of a cent lower at 653gc July, and was afterwards quoted at 643{c May; 66c July.Receipts, 110,000 bushels and shipments, 8,000 bushels.Corn opened 14 of a cent per bushel lower at 379¢c May and was later quoted at 875gc May, 38%c July.Receipts, 554,000 bushels aud shipments, 176,000 bushels.oo In Milwaukee wheat was 34 of a cent lower at 58igc Jan and 613gc May.In Duluth wheat was 34 of a cent lower at 585éc Jan.and 625¢c May.x In Detroit wheat was $£ of a cent lower at 60c Jan.and 618gc May.In Toledo wheat, was 1¢ of a cent lower at 5934c Jan., 641gc May and 88e Jaly.In St.Louis wheat was 54 of a cent lower at 6ilge May.In Chicago pork opened 5 cents \"per barrel lower at $13.40 May and was afterwards quoted at §13.25 May.Lard opened about steady at $8.00 Jan.; $7.85 Feb.and $7.75 May, and was later quoted at $7.90 Jan.and $7.70 May.Short - ribs opened b cents higher at $6.75 May and was later quoted at $6.67} May.- Grain.\u2014There is no change in the local grain market.It is quiet in all lines.Prices are unchanged.We quote as follows :\u2014No.1 hard Manitoba wheat, 73¢ to Y4c; No.8, 70c to 72c ; corn, duty paid.62c to 64c ; No.2 oats in store, 37c to 88c; peas, in store, 68c to 68c.Rye, 56c to 57c.Barley, for feeding, 42c to 43¢; malting, 52c te 54c.Buckwheat, 5lc to 52c.Flour.\u2014 Quietness is the leading feature of the flour market.Prices are on the easy side, Prices are about as follows :\u2014 | Patent- Winter.4.$3-50 to 8.60 | | stisoigtt » ; AEE vivid s seve rpaioce 09 te 3 =.++#1.0%%0terastun 4020005000 3.to BUperine.0200cc00consrcencs 2.60 tO Strong Bakers\u2019 (Man).350 to Meal.\u2014The demand for oatmeal is steady and prices are firm.We quote :\u2014 Granuiated, in bris.$LSO to $4.\u201c Grannlated, in bags.\u2026.2.10 to 2.90 Standard, in bris.\u2026.8.95 to 4.00 Standard, in bags.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.1.90 to 2.00 Feed.\u2014Bran and shorts are in good demand and prices are very firm, Woe quote :\u2014 \u2018 Bran.e+»++++.000.$16.00 to $16.50 Bhorts.vensssnsrses 17.00 to 18.00 Moanllle,.creseernsnssnses 00.00 to MW.00 Hog Products.\u2014There is no particular change in the local provision market.The demand is rather indifferent, but prices are mot materially changed.Dressed hogs are steady ; prices range from $6.75 to $6.90 by the car lot, and $7.00 small lots, We quote: Canada short cut,mess pork.$17.00 to Chicago new mess pork.16.56 to 17.00 Hams, city cured, perlb.00.J2 to 00.13 Lard, compound.00.814 to 00.084 Lard,pare\u2026 esserssccscuis 001054 to 00.11 COM.àarassossenssreucs 00.113 to 00.1214 Butter.\u2014The butter market is quiet but prices hold firm.We quote as follows to-day :\u2014Town- ships, 2ic to 22 ; creamery, 2{c to 25c ; western dairy, 194£c to 20c.: Chbeese.\u2014There is no change ; the market is guiet and both holders and buyers are indifferent.rices hold firm.We quote at 1114c to 1114c.Eggs.\u2014There is a quiet demand for eggs ; prices are unchanged.e quote:\u2014Boiling stock at 25c; candied at 17¢ to 18c; limed at 16c to 1Ÿc.\u2019 Ashes.\u2014The market is quiet.We quote :\u2014First pots, at $4.85; seconds, $3.75.Pearls at $5.50.RECEIPTS IN MONTREAL\u2014Jan.17.6.T.R.C.P.R.Canal.Total.Wheat, bush., .eee tees cere Corn, bash.cons .\u2026.PR Peas, bash.500 eee vee 500 Oats, bush.6400 .\u2026.sure 6400 Bariey, bush.vere \u201cree cone Rye, push.a.\u2026.Four, bbls.1450 errs cons 1450 Meal, bbis.cree cone vers Ashes, bbls.1 eve Reese 1 Butter, pkgs.128 sees eons 128 Cheese, boxes.13 cers rene 18 Pork, bbis.A.vera eens Lard, tierces.cove see vers Eggs, cages.178 cons vees 176 eef, sss ssa vase aves ees Ham, bacen .ress sees cers Hsm, hhds.ree a.eee Meats, pkgs.voi eee ees Dreseed Hogs.14 eve sees 14 Leather rolis., 141 cere vo.141 Raw Hides .7 eens vee 76 Petrolesm.rere vs.ene Phosphates.ees a.eee Tallow.25 2.vere 25 TORONTO MARKETS.Toronto, Jan: 17, \u2014 Market dull.Quota- llons :\u2014Straigh« rolier flour, $2.70 to $2.80.extra, $2.40 to $2.50 ; white wbeat, b8c: spring No.2.58c ; red winter, 58c : goose, fisc: No.1 Manitoba hard.750: do.No.2, 73c : peas, No.2, 524gc to 53 : barley, No.1, 48c to 440 ; feed, 37c to 38c; oats, No.2.31c to 8llge.Bales, No.1 Manitoba hard wheat, outside.at 75¢c : dos No.2 at 74c ; oats, outside, at 3ilgc to 82c; peas, outside, at 52kgc to 58c.CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKETS.Chicago Union Stock Yarde, Jan.17.\u2014 Hoge\u2014 To-day's estimated receipte.84,000.Yesterday's receipts, according to official returne, 28,619; shipments, 4,943 : left over, 1,000.Light mixed $5.20 to $5.55; mixed packing, $35.15 to $5.55 ; heavy shipping, $5.10 to $5.28 ; rough grades, 85.10 to $5.20.The receipts of cattle were 15,000, market for best fat steers, steady : othar grades hc to 10c lower.would-be guar- LIVERPOOL MARKET PRICES CURRENT, Liverpool, Jan.17.\u201412.50 p.m.\u2014 Spring wheat, nominal ; red winter, 5a 2d to 55 814d ; No.1 Cal, bs 4d to Bs 5d ; corn, 4s 1d; 4a1014d; pork, 758; lard, 42s ; tallow, 27s 6d: bacon, heavy, 30804; Hebt, 418 0d : cheese, both, 578.Wheat quiet: demand poor ; hoiders offer moderately; corn steady ; demand moderate.LONDON CONSOLS.London, Jan.17, 12.30 p.m.\u2014 Consols, 987 money, and aceount.P .0 \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 SHIPPING NOTES.New York, Jan.17.\u2014 .from Liverpgol Arrived, SS.Majestic, \u2014p ne Montreal, Jan.17, Readings oy Hearn & Harrison's Standard Bare- meter at noon to-day: 3068 ; yesterday, 30.15 ; to day : temperature, max.18; min, \u20141; yesterday, max.81; min.17.eller wt SPECIAL NOTICE.If you want to get even with yourself now îs your time.We are selling men\u2019s furnishings at from 15 to 3 percent less than wholesale prices.Stock-taking is \u2018the cause of it.Montreal Steam Laundry Co., 133 St.Peter street.17 entorse ADVERTISEMENTS.JANUARY 1st, 1804.THIS OERTIFIES THAT FROM THE ABOVE DATE THE UNDERSIGNED WILL CONTINUE TO SELL FURNITURE, CARPETS, STOVES, RUGS, CURTAINS AND EVERYTHING THAT MAKES A HOUBE A HOME, ON THE SAME TERMS THAT HAVE DISTINGUISHED THEIR BUSINESS A8 A PREEMINENT EXCEPTION TO THR RULE THAT WHERE CREDIT IS OF- FE RED, THE VALUE GIVEN FOR MONEY RECEIVEDIN SMALL WEEKLY PAYMENTS 18 LESS THAN A READY CASH TRANSACTION.: CREDIT AT CASH PRICES.NG MISREPRESENTATION, STRAIGHTFORWARD DEALING AND PROMPT DELIVERY ARE THE FOUR PRIME FACTORS AMONGST OTHERS THAT HAVE ENABLED THIS FIRM TO SURMOUNT ALL COMPETITION, AND DEMONSTRATE BY EVERY EVIDENCE OF SUCOESS IN THE PAST, THAT THE END OF THIS YEAR WILL FIND OLD CUSTOMERS STILL DEALING WITH THEM, AND A LARGE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHOM EX- PFRIMENT HAS CONVINCED THAT THEY CAN GET TEN DOLLARS WORTH OF GOODS FOR TEN DOLLARS IN WEEKLY PAYMENTS OF FIFTY CENTS AT METROPOLITAN MFG.CO.THE HOME-FUENISHERS.1618 and 1690 NOTRE DAME STREET.Te A.EMMANS, MANAGER.5 ns - \"SAMUEL 8.GRANT , 166 Honors pupil of Dr.Bucklin, A.M., M.D.GOLD SPECTACLES GOLD EYEGLASSES.FOB THE HOLIDAY SEASON.HENRY GRANT & BON, 72 BEAVER HALL, corner Dorchester strost.MISS JESSIE ALEXANDER, : DOUGLAS CHURCH HALL, THURSDAY and FRIDAY.Must get close figures when you buy à piano.Thats all right.Call upon C.W.LINDSAY, 2268, 2270 and 2272 St.Catherine street, and you will get quotations that will be a temptation.17 PONY SLEICHS DECEMBER PRICES., $30, $40.JANUARY PRICES.ft , So 290.All others, equally low.Spot cash, no time lost LATIMER, 59% St.Paul street.= ROAD DEPARTMENT.Tenders for the Paving of Notre Dame straet from Papineau avenue to Eneroix street with Asphalt aad Blocks.SEALED TENDDRS, addrezsed to the Road Committees, and deposited im the office of the City Clerk, will be received up to 12 o'clock noon,.on WEDNESDAY, the 24th January, for the pavimg with Asphalt and Blocks of Notre Dame street, from Papineau avenue to Lacroix street.The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.The Asphalt pavement must be guaranteed for 15 years.' More details are given in the specification and form of tender, which together with all information, can be had at the office of the undersigned City Surveyor, in the City Hall.No tender will be entertained unless submitted on the printed forms to be had at the office of the undersigned.PERCIVAL W.ST.GEORGE.Citv Surveyor.CITY BURVEYOR'S OFFICE, Montreal, Jan.15, 1894 ADVERTISEMENTS.THE GEST IS ALWAYS THE CHEAPEST.Therefore, always get the best, and every one knows: that you can get the best of everything from WALTER PAUL, aad, notwithstanding the numerous sdvertise- ments of reduoed prices and cheap sales, ourtom- ers will ind, on comparison, his prices to bes as low as any.It would take nearly the whole advertising space of any of our daily papers to give a detail of his stock, which this season is Larger and better than ever, and anything in the Grocery, Fruit and Provision line that you can't get from him, it is useless to look for anywhere.Whilst not attempting to speoily many of the Bpecialties for the Holiday Season, there are a few, however, that he decided lo draw your attention to, viz : ENGLISH STILTON CHEESE, (ripe and ready.ROQUEFORT, (French Stilton.) EDAM, (Dutch.) OHEDDAR, (English and Canadian.) CANADIAN STILTON.WORLD'S FAIR GOLD MEDAL OXRESE CANADIAN DAIRY.CANADIAN FACTORY.CREAM CHEESE, (daily.) TABLE RAISINS, ALMONDS and WALNUTS (and other Nuts of all kinds.) Daily supplies of FLORIDA ORANGES and TANGORINES.150 barrels FINEST ALMERIA GRAPES.2,000 Doz.CANNED VEGETABLES.1,000 * CANNED FRUITS, (Canadian and Californian.) 5,000 Yards FINE WREATHING.A great assortment of Fanoy Articles for Christmas Trees and Table Decoration.The largest and best assortiment of FANCY CANDLES and CANDLE SHADES, that is to be found in the Dominion.HOLLY and MISTLETOE for the Million to srrive in a few days.Wishing Health and Happiness te Every One.GOD BAVE THE QUEEN.WALTER PAUL, Family Grocer.Corner METCALKFEB and ST.CATHERINE sts.Montreal.13 October, 25, 1803.My Health was completely restored by CAMPRELL'S S8xREI CoD LIvER OIL.3 bottles teken in 32 day increased my weight by 18 ibs.HENRY ZIVERN.Montreal.Prop.Reneve Co.Je FROM NOW UNTIL FEB, 8 3 PREVIOUS TO ANNUAL STOCK TAKING, WE OFFER SPECIAL REDUCTIONS, my 0; BONA FIDE.Watches, Jewellery, Carriage Clocks, Mantle Olecks, Solid Silver- Ware.Electro Plate of every description, Joseph Rodgers & Som\u2019s Table Cutlery, John Askham\u2019s Table Cutlery, Speons and Forks.Plated Cutlery, Doalion, Cauldon and Wercester Art Pottery, .arrived too late for Christmas trade.Fans, Opera Glasses, Lamps, Tables, &Le., &c., Ke.Our JEWELLERY is all new and fashionable.No eld stock.Thisis a» good opportunity to buy really first- class goods, at much lower than ordinary ruling .prices.WATOH repairing.and JEWELLERY made to order, by export workmen.A CALL SOLICITED.WATSON & DICKSON, 1791 Netre Dame, corner St.Peter street.392 ST.PAPL STREET, Will sell you SLEIGHS this month at your ewn prices, only 100 left, and they must and will go.If you want a bargain, eome.LATIMER, 593 St.Paul street.TO THE TRADE ONLY.H.R.IVES& CO, QUEEN STREET, Our New 1894 Illustrated MONTREAL.Catalogne of Hardware and Sundries Is now ready and will bo mailed on application.CASTINGS OF ALL KINDS TO ORDER.18 CHINA TEA er\u201d \u2014\u2014 | E, HAG 446 and 448 ST.SETS, $4, $.4.50, £5.00, $6.00, $7.00, $8.00, $9.00, 810, $11, $12 tp .§80.THE LARGEST AND FINEST VARIETY.\u2014\u2014 _g8 AR & CO, PAUL STREET.Auction Sales.Shaw.Alexander Beek AUCTION.t sale of a COLLECTION ébont 2,000 Va ST RIRE AND OLABSICAL BOOKH mostly in Calf Binding, oon ed for unreserved sale to Mr.Shaw .Lowe, ot Birmingham.The whole to be Bold by AUCTION st my Store, 200 ST.CATHERINE STRERT, On THURSDAY and FRIDAY RVENING, 18th and 19th inst.Sule each Erening at 7.30.Catalogues ready om TUESDAY.ALEXANDER SHAW, Auctiencer.(CLEARING SALE OF ODDS AND ENDS.Books, Pictures, V.Copying Press, writer &o., on SATURDA Evouing, 20th inst.A.SHAW, Auctioneer, Type 0 ADVERTISEMENTS.GE YOUR PRINTING DONE AT THR \u2018WITNESS\u2019 OFFICH, GOOD WORX AT FAIR PRICES.Commercial Work, Poster Invitation \u201c6 Programme s Boo \u2018 Pamphlet \u201c ELKOTROTYBING, BTCHING, ENGRAVING D DESIGNING.Soe eur Prices.Estimates supplied.10: DOVGALL & SON, JOHN \u2018Witness ' Office, Craig and St.Poter strecrs, Montreal.ARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED.MONEY TO LEND -\u2014BY\u2014- JOHN M.M.DUFF, ACCOUNTANT AND COMMISSIONER, 107 St.James st.and 345 Prince Arthur st.8 The best Typowriter is that one which erable an operator to produce the most work of the finest quality, with the least effort, in the shertest time.\u2014THR\u2014 1693 BAR-LOCK DOES THIS, Full details of its automatic move ments mailed free.CHARLES F.PAWSON, 233 St.James street.MONTREAL.5 A PERFECT ARTICLE.Only the purest Grape Cream Tartar and Finent Recrystallized Bicarbonate of Soda are Spiployed in its preparation.OUSANDS A USING THE QO0OK'8 FRIEND.Just THE THING FOR YOUR KING.the best Groéers sell it.Moc EN'S COOK'S END THE ONLY GENUINE.TWO-SEATED (For Four Persons) gt I ay DECEMBER PRICES.$35, $40, £50, §85, 980 JANUARY PRICES.830, $35, 340, $58 860 LATIMER, 592 8t.- Paul street.Naw ARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED.MONEY TO LEND.CUSHING & DUNTON.NOTARIES AND COMMISSIONERS.110 St.James street.ARGER AND , BETTER THAN EVER WALTER PAUL'S 0 STOCK OF Fine Groceries, Fruits and Provisions.LATEST SPECIALTIES.Hot-Bouse Grapes, Hot-Houge Tomatoes, Boston Lettuce, Kalamazoo Celery, Jersey Spinach, California Pears, California Grapes, Catawba Grapes, - Almeria Grapes, Florida Oranger, Fine Dehesa Raisins, New Greno- hle Walnute, New Jordan Almonds, New Tarragona Almonds, English Filberts, American Chestnuts, And alt other kinds of fruit that are in season.WALTER PAUL.F.McINTYRE, Advocate, Sarrister, Seliciter, Ete.QUEBEC ANB ONTARIO.Chambers 806 and 807.NEW YORK LIFE BUILDING.CS i 0 ES TR Fh SEY TTT aw oo. EEE DNS JET tots dt EE CNTY tg LTR Ant CI MURR Ge otha i A Me EEE parts AA ve 6 ADVERTISEMENTS.nN J LECTORS OF ST.LAWRENCE WARD Vote for Alderman GRIFFIN who has lived in your ward for over 40 years and who chailenges the strictest nxamination into his public life.Why should 8t.Lawrence Ward be dictated to by a West End Clique and a newspaper?Miscellaneous Advertisements.(RECEIVED TOO LATE TO BE CLASSIFIED).COMFORTABLY Furnished warm room; on parlor flat: suitable for two gentlemen; private family; rerms moderate.Address ROW.,- 23, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.17 FOR SALE\u2014 Brick Cottage, 30 Abbott ave, Cote St.Antoine, 6 rooms, heated by a \u2018Daisy\u2019 furnace; price, $2,000; li cash, and balance to sult buyer.Apply to 52 St.An- txine strect.17 FASHIONABLE DRESS AND MANTLE Making dy tallor system; children's clothes a speciality.148 Champ de Mars street.17 GOOD GENERAL SERVANT Wanted; one to sleep at home; alse.a woman to wash one day a week.240 Mountain street.17 GOOM GENERAL SERVANT Wanted; no washing or lvoning; references required.Apply before three or after six p.m.At 74 St.Matthew street.17 GENERAT, SERVANT Wanted; must have references.Apply 47 Crescent street.17 THE -MASKINONGE CORRESPONDENCKE\u2014 Lettors from two priests, a iawyer, a notary, and a nun to the Frofestan! friends in Maskincnge, and the answers to the same.Thin correspondence makes very intere-ting reading: 150 pages: price only 20c.NORMAN Protestan: Lookselier, No.90 St.17 MU KRATY, Francois Xavier sireet, Montreal.COMMERCIAL, WrrNxss OFFICE, Wednesday, Jan.17, 1894, AMERICAN WHEAT EASY.= I Although the wheat marke! opened somewhat indifferently this morning it made a better show- | ing at noon than was expected.It was much steadier than it bas been for some days back and there were no wild fluctuations to keep the grain men in a state of feverish excitement and uncertainty.In Chicago wheat opened 14 of a cent Jess than the closing prices of yesterday for May delivery at 648¢c and 683¢c July.But after this there was a steady advance and at noon the lost ground was just abont covered.Corn opened a shade lower than yesterday's closing prises but was very steady all morning and at noon the quotations were 375¢c May and 38l4c July, about the same x8 yesterday's closing prices.The Chicago wheat market did not keep up aa well this afternoon as was expected after the steady advance of the morning from the opening drop.Wheat closed at 643gc May and 6534c to 6274 July, 84 of acent lower than yesterday\u2019s closing prices.Corn closed firm at 3774c Man and 88%g¢c to 3834c J'aly, 3éof a cent better than yasterday.STOCKS INACTIVE : STEADY.The leading feature of the local stock market this morning was the recovery of 214 points from the lowest point in Gas of yesterday, 125 shares changing hands at 17214.Richelieu was quiet but firm, 60 sharesfselling at 82.Street Railway sold at from 1862 down te 16014.Call money is uuchanged at 534 percent to 6 percent.Speculating stocks closed strong this afternoon, especially in Richelieu and Gas, wbich occupied the attention of the market, Reported by Messrs.W.L.Jackson & Co, Between Banks Counter.Buyers.Sellers.New York Funds Par.101-32 1 prem to 14 Sterling, 60 days.91-16 to 914 938 to 93g Bterling, demand 9e to 954 934 to 974 Sterling, cables.99-16t0 811-16 9% to 10 Païis cheques.5.174 to 5.164 5.15 to 5.1234 Guilders, 3 days, 3954 to 40: Reichmarks, 3 days, 9134 to 95; Documentary, 60 days; Blé to 84; Cattle Bills, 3 days, 875 to 9: Money in London, 134 to 11: Bank of England rate, 3 percent.The sales this morning were : 50 Commercial Cable at 13614 ; 25 Montreal Telegraph at 14434 ; Bat 144 ; 60 Richelieu & Ontario Navigation at 8 ;1 Street Railway at 162 ; 1 at 161 : 150 at 16034 : 25 ai 16034 ; 20 Gas at 171 ; 125 at 1724 ; 1 Bank of Montreal at 221 ; 1 at 22134 ; 5 Merchants at 15914.The sales this afternoon were ; 25 Ricb.& Ont.Nav.at 8214; 75 at 82 : 75 at 82%4: 75 at 8214: 50 at 82: 25 at 8214, 50 at 8256, 5 at 3244: 6 Gas at 171, 27 at 17216, 125 at 173, 3 at 17214, 25 at 178; 16 Quebec Bank at 12514, Reported by Messrs.Nichols & Marier, stock brokers, corner of Notre Dame and St.Francois Xuvieffstreets.Sellers Buyer per $100.per $1 Bank of Montreal.,.225 220 Ontario Bank.assavonaccs 116 113 Banque du Peuple,.125 130 Moleons Bank.RN 175 160 Baokof Toronto.oveenee oon.\u201c3914 Bank of Jacques Cartier.s 185 115 \u2014 Merchants Bank of Canada.165 157 Quebec Bank.ears cers Banque Nationale.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.wens \u2019 Hastern Townships Bank., ,.a.Union Bank.sosccvenos sun revs Bank of Commerce.,.13634 135 Banqgne Ville Marie.100 vee Hochelaga Bank.sc.130 veer Merchants, Halifax.,.143 I.Moutreal \u2018Telegraph.145 144 Dominion Telegraph Le PE Corn \u2018ommerciai Cable.13514 334 Bell Telephone.140 136 Royal Electric Ligbt.\u2026.\u2026.185 130 Richelieu & Ontario, .83 824 Street Rallway.\u2026.163 16114 City Gus Co.recense veer 17834 173 Montreal Loau & Mortgage.vere polored Om CD eases 52 51 antreal Cotton Co.,.cians 11 716 Merchants Manufxe.(Uot.) Co .1064 Ions hominion Cotton Co.veees 105 101 St.Henri.000.e.ess sue eee een BL.P.Min.& Man.Railway, .een Car, North-West Land Co.reas Grand Trunk 1stpfd.ees Canadian Pacifc Railway.73% TILE Duluth com.7 6 Duluth pfd.RR 16 14 New York, Jan.17, 2,20 p.m.\u2014Closing wheat \u2014t5/fc Jan.: 6usgc Feb.; 61Jgc March :69çc May: 7096 Jume: 7ilec July : 72)gc Aug.; 7614c Dec.Corn 4134c Jan.: 424¢c Feb.: 43L4c March : ddléc May.Oais, 33c Jan, ; 885çc Feb.: 31c March.NEW YORK STOCK LIST.(Farnished by J.R.Meeker.Opening and Closing Prices\u201410a.m.and 8.00 p.m, Atchison.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026osvossconrere 1134 1184 Can.Pacific.sossovcces TOD 7386b Can.Southern.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.48 49 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.3503 7934 Clev.C.C.& St.Louls.8 33 Com Cable.iveencnrarsssaraeone sous cere Doi HR geese 13434 13434 .aC.[= ES LEN} en Er rc s ads e da a00 00 14% 14% MI.Centrai.\u2026.vaveronnoscense esos een.Louis, & Nasl.,veeevnee covers se: 48 4834 Lake Shore.Caeser secastassaras eos cee Manhattan Consolidated.o000e 121 121 Missouri Pacific.ieeesscvssrsesss 22 2134 North American.PR wees vere Nor.Pacific .vers Nor.Pac.pfd.15Lg New Jersey Can Care Nor, Wel.veoeeer 10034 N.Y, & Eng.18 N.Ÿ.Central.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026uusevans ova \u2026\u2026.Omaba, COMMON.v\u2026ss>svonsace0 sane een Pacific MAIL.coo sersvasvererssoes ones vee Reading, Philadelphia.198$ 1954 Richmond Terminal.\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.ores ees Rock Island.Chicago & Pae.614 66 St.Paul.Chico.Minn.5134 5784 St P., Minn.& Mun.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u20260ee0u eons tens Texas Pacifle.ciiiennniniinee 000 A.Union Pacific.193% 19 Wabash Com.\u2026\u2026\u2026.ssacoouss0 wees \u201cere Wabsghpfd.ociviiveereranseses 18 1316 Western Union Tel.85 8540 SUZAT .iviiiniiverrcnsnsansssness 83 8344 Lead.nsenonccrrroncecenseuss 26 2 7 Gas, Chicago,.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.6 6644 Gea, Eiectric.L.\u2026ncureucu0 86 Toledo, Ann Arbor & Nor.Mich.Rabber.\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.RE sens cone +.Chicago, Jan.17, 1.15 p.m.C.osing wheat sites Jan.; 61gc May ; 6684 10 8574c July.Corn.34l4c Jan.: 847%c Feb.; silgc Vay: 8854c to 88% c July.Oats, 20L{0 Jan.: 261gc May : 284{c July.Pork, $18.00 Jau,: $13.20 May.Lard, $7.82kÿ Jan.: ÿ7.721\u20ac Feb ; $7,624\u20ac May.Snort ribs, $8.50 Jan, and Feb., $6.65 May Closing cash prices, wheat.583Gc: corn, 34l4c: oats, 6Y4c; pork, $18.05: lard, $7.8734 ; short ribs, $6.55.Milwaukee, Jan.17, 1.15 p.m.\u2014Closing, wheat-\u2014 5854c rash ; 6!34c May.Duluth, Jap.17, 1.15 p.m.\u2014Closing, wheat, No.1, hard, 6034c Jan., 643{c May ; No.1, Northern, 59c Jan., 63¢ May.Toledo.Jan.171.15 p.m.\u2014Closing, wheat, 5884c cash and Jan , 64kge May: 6534c July.Corn, Sdlsc cash, 3234c May.Oats, 29c cash.St.Louis, Jan.17, 1,20 p.m.\u2014Closing whest\u2014 5814 cash; 5834c Jan.: GlLéc May ; 6% July.Corn, 8294c cash 3234: Jan, : 88¢ I ic Feb.; 33igc March ; S484c May.Odts, 28c cash and Jan.; 3034c May.LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET.Bacon.\u2014As anticipated in our last report, there has been a better demand this week for English Cuts, and a good business is reported at fully last week\u2019s prices, but boneiess meats and short rib for Irish trade have been neglected and prices gre a shade easier.We quote Choice Staffordshire lean ou and Birmingham cute, 33 to 40 lbs, avg.48s to 458: Statfords lean-off, 40 to 45 lbs.428 to 488 6d ; Cumberland cut, 25 to 35 lbs., 438 to 44s 6d : clear bellies, 12 to 14 lbs., 48s to 518; 14 to 16 :bs , 468 to 50s ; J8 to 20 lbs, 454 t0 488; Shurt middles, rib ia, 2 lower ; 25 to 28 lbs, dds to 45s ; short cleär backe, 18 to 20 1bs., 42a Gd to 448 ; long fat backs, 34s to 87s 6d ; long clear middies, 45 Jbs., 423 to 438 : 55 lbe., 4is to 4is 6d : short clear middles, 55 Ibs , 418 6d to 42s 6d: shouiders unchanged \u2014square cut, 12to 18 Ibs., 87s to 428: New York cut, 10 to 12 lbs.378 to 388 per Cwt.4 ; Hams.\u2014There is a better enquiry, especially for Short Cut and A.C, for whieh Js per et.advance ia quoted.Long Cut are unchanged in value, 14 to 17 lbs, avg.being quoted 433 to 478.Short Cut, 14 to 16 Ibs.avg., now worth 458 to 47s per cwt.Beef \u2014There ie a little more stock now on the market, and holders offer at a decline of 2a 6d to 58 per tierce.Extra India Mess now quoted 108s to 1128 6d per 304 ibs., but buyers hold off, Pork i8 nominally unchanged.but the market is very qniet, and to\u2018eifect sales bolders would bave fo make some concession.We quote :\u2014Finest Prime Mess, 708 Lo 8Us per 200 lbs.Lard has farther declined this week about 18 to 1s 64 per cwt., but very little business is being done at our quotations, Prime Western, in tierces, now quuted 43s.Cheese.\u2014The increased firmness noted last week hag been fully sustained, some holders asking 1s per cwt.advance on choice goods ; there has been a good steady general demand, and the market, closes with a hardening tendency.We quote to-day finest September-October make, lbs 6a to 57s for colored or white.Medium des from 25s to 50s, continue scarce and In steady request.: Butter has shown an improvement, there being a better enquiry for Finest American and Canadian Creamery at 1088 to 113s per cwt., and quali- tv under this class at 808 to 90c.We quote Irish Butter\u2014Cork Firets, 1185 ; seconds, 109s; thirds, 923 ; and fourths, 80s per cwi.\u2014Hodgeson Bros.\u2019 Circular, Liverpool, Jan.8, 1894.ADULTERATED TEA.The \u2018Commercial Journal-Bulletin,\u2019 of New York, says, that a great deal of adulterated tea has arrived in New York during the past season.Some 23,000 packages have already been stopped by the Government inspector, of which 15,000 reached arbitration, and received summary and finai rejection.The faults are contined almost cntirely to the one grade, known commercially as \u2018Pingsueys,\u2019 a green tea, and consists in part an excess of coloring matter,but principally to a spurious leaf covered or filled with mud or rice water, which while looking and handling well, even handsome in some cases, suçeumbs promptly to the test of thé cup, and reveals a composition more lke mud than tea.There is likely to be some embarrassment in attempts to dis- puse of the rejected teas, but it is understood some have already been sold to Canada.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 TAILLON'\u2019S RESIGNATION.The \u2018Patrie\u2019 says : \u2018The \u2018Witness\u2019 created a sensation the day before yesterday when it announded tho resignation of the Hon.Mr.Taillon, a resignation that is timidly denied by the Conservative organs this morning.We are in a position to furnish further information concerning these ministerial changes which are imminent.The Hon.Mr.Taillon abandons public affairs and receives in exchange the seat of Senator for the division of Salaberry, which the Hon.Mr.Tasse cedes to him.Mr.Tasse enters the .Cabinet, and, in order to find a seat, gets Mr.Bisson, the present member for Beauharnois, appointed prothonotary for that district, and presents himself in that county, where he has already made unsuccessful campaigns.Mr.Tasse would not be appointed prime minister, the position belonging to Mr.Nantel, but he would take any portfolio whatever ; he is easy to please ; all that be wants is to be a minister.We will again refer to this subject.\u2019 Coupled with the above may be mentioned the fact of Mr.Taillon's absence from the Conservative demonstration at Berthier, and the silence of the two leading Conservative organs in the city, which had not a word concerning the rumor this morning.: \u2014\u2014 sm: SPECIAL NOTICE.For evening wear specialties see our windows.The \u2018Court\u2019 and expanding dress shirts, white kid gloves, black silk and cashmere socks and dress bows at less than bankrupt prices.Montreal Steam Laundry Co., 133 St.Peter atreet.17 THE MONTREAL THE WHOLESALE GROCERS.The regular meeting of the Dominion Wholesale Grocers\u2019 Guild was held today in the council room of the Board of Trade.Mr.Hugh Blain.vice-president, of Toronto, occupied the chalr.Those present were \u2018Messrs, Blain, Ince, ir, Eckhardt, Kinnear, Boomer, Dixon and Crowther, of Toronto; Balfour, McPherson, Gillard and Lucos, of Hamilton; Scruton and Mazurett, of London; Roos, of Berlin, and Edgar A.Wills, secretary.The Montreal represertatives were Messrs.Geo.Childs, Chas.Chaput, 8.J.Carter, D.L.Lockerby, H.H.Hughes, Forbes and Burke.° A short sesison was held in the morning, which was mostly of a preliminary character, and little actual business wae done.The matter of a decline in certain tobacco prices was discussed and it was decided to strike off à committee to walt on the manufacturer in question in regard to the matter and report to the guild at the efternoon session.An adjournment was made until the afternoon.espe KEATING HAS NOT RESIGNED.(Special to the \"Witness.\") Toronto, Jan.17.\u2014City Engineer Keating denies the report circulated last night that he contemplates resigning.A JEWELLBR ASSIGNS.J.A.C.Julien, jewelter, has assigned on the demand of A.L.Tessier, with liabilities of $1,250.\u2014______p>_ THE BRITISH ARMY.DISTRIBUTION OF THE NEGULAR FORCES AT HOME AND ABROAD, The latest return of the regular forces at home and atroad shows thel the tota number of officers and men borne upon the regimental rolls (exclusive of the Indian native army) is very little below 220,000, and about two thousand.more than were in the ranks a year ago.Of these nearly twenty thousand are cavalry, 37,000 artillery, 7,600 engineers, 143,- 500 Infantry, 5,200 colonial troops, 3,500 army service corps, and; 2,660 medical staff corps, and the remainder being made up of the smaller departmental corps.Great Britain and Ireland retain nearly half the regular army for home service, there being little short of 107,000 | troops in the three kingdoms\u201474,000 in England and Wales, 28000 im Ireland, 3,500 in Scotland, and the remainder in the Channel Islands, but these totals leave the whole number at home some seven hundred below the strength of twelve months ago.Aldershot shows the largest home aggregation, the Duke of Connaught having there 15,000 men, while the Metropolis and home districts have 8,600; Portsmouth and the southern district, 9,500; Plymouth and the western 7,200; Dover and the south-eastern, 7,500; \u2018Woolwich and the Marines, 9,400; and the eastern, north-eastern and northwestern districts have smaller proportions.: Away from home India always absorbs the greatest number of regular tropps, and the men of the Imperial army there now reckon up about 77,000, or about 600 more than at this time last year; the Bengal presidency and dependencies containing 46,600; Madras and Bürma, 15,500; Bombay, 13,500; and the remainder being troops on passage on the Indian establishment.The British strength in Egypt has been somewhat inareased latterly, and the 5,000 men there are nearly 2,000 more than a year ago, the principal Increase being in infantry of the Mne.The regular forces scattered over our colonies in all parts of the world are 31,000 in number, and the Mediterranean stations occupy a considerable portion of these.Gibraltar has in its garrison 5,600 men, and Malta 8,000, while Cyprus has only about 600, mostly infantry, and neo artillerymen.After these stations have been reckoned the remainder of this 31,000 give 3,300 to the Cape and Natal, 1,000 to the West African settlements (where the regular troops are principally the colored soldiers of the West India Regiment), 2,900 to Hong Kong, 1,600 to the Straits settlements, 1,500 to Ceylon, 1,400 to Nova Scotia (the only portion of the Dominion of Canada garrisoned by Imperial troops), 1,600 to Jamajca, 1,400 to Bermuda, 1,300 to Barbadoes, 808 to Mauritius, and only 200 to St.Helena.Besides the home islands, India, and Egypt, Natal is the only part of the world where British cavalry is staitioned ; home and India have all the horse artillery, Egypt has field artillery as well as a cavalry regiment, the formép being an addition since last year: and the mountain artillery are confined to heme, India, and South Africa, while the garrison artillerymen, numbering in all nearly 18,000, are to be found in all the colonies (as well as at home and in India) with the exception of Cyprus, Natal, Penang, and tite Gambia.The Royal Engineers, Army Service Corps, and Medical Staff Corps are similarly ubiquitous, except in India, where their duties are performed by naltive troops.FARM GLEANINGS.Vegetables a little touched by frost Tay be recovered by Ssaking in cold water.Last summer, on visiting a nelghbor's garden, 1 saw a magnificent lot of raspberries.The ripe fruit was very fine and in great abundance.I had long known the Cuthbert as an excellent kind, but I was reelly surprised when my friend told me this was it.But when he told me that Ire buried the canes in the winter time my surprise was not so great.Why cannot this burying of the canes be more generally done?A few inches of earth over the canes Is all sufficient here, no matter how hard it freezes, and no doubt it would answer as well anywhere else.It is not hard work, either physical nor mental, that makes young people old, but worry and friction.Given a man who sings and whisties about his work, he will abtain more milk from the same cow with less feed, more work from the team.which will keep fat on less food, than the man who swears and yells, pounds er jerks, who is always in a great hurry, showing his value to his employer by breaking tool handles and rushing the teams through under the whip.I would not have a man on my farm who was unkind to any animal about \u2018the place.I do not believe those \u2018rushers\u2019 do the télls and generally the most powerful words of the Rev.J.\u2018to their business, motion makes the least noise.DAILY WITNESS.MEETINGS AND SOCIETIES, WOMEN MEETING FOR PRAYER.The Evangelistic Hall, St.Catherine street, has been well filled, day by day.this weel, as the ladies gathered from eleven to twelve, to pray for a blessing upon Mr.Mills's meetings in February, aid to give themselves to God in renewed consecration.\u2018There has been a deep {interest manifested, and so many have desired to take part that it has been fmpossible to close the meetings on time.Mrs.Stevenson presided on Monday, Miss Barbér on Tuesday, and Miss Dougall on Wednesday.Thursday's meeting will be Jn charge of Miss Lunn, who attended the celebrated Ieswick meetings last summer, and has already spoken of the impressive testimonies ziven there by leaders In the di(fer- ent denominations.Anyone desiring to send & request for praver to these meetings, should address it to Miss Barber.Specimen cards for the Prayer League may be obtained at the hall or the Girls\u2019 Reading Room.It is expected thal these :neetings, to which nil Christian women are invited, will be contnued until Mr.Mil's comes to the city.INTERNATIONAL BUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSOXS.The Mountain Street Methodist Sab- bath-School teachers have for nearly twenty years held weekly meetings for the study of the lessons, conducted by Mr.Fred Meyers.At the request of the directors of Welcome Hall and some of the teachers in connection with west end Sabbath-schools, they have decided to form a union meeting, for the weekly study of the Sunday-school lesson.The meetings will in future be held evéry Friday nizht, at elght o\u2019clock, in Welcome Hall, 247 St.Antoine street.A cordial invitation is extended to all teachers and others interested in Bible study to attend.Mr.Fred Meyers has kindly consented to continue as leader of the class.HECTOR AT INSPECTOR STREET.The liquor traffic is infinitely a worse system than the system of African sta- very.This was what the Rev.J.H.Hector endeavored to establish fast night in his lecture in the American Presbyterian Chapel, Inspedtor street.The Rev.J.H.Collins, the pastor, presided, and on the platform were the Rev.James Fleck, the Rev.T.S.Mec- Williams, the Rev.F.A.McAmmond, James Baylis, Mr.J.McConica, Mr.J.H.Carson.The Rev.Mr.McWilliams briefly addressed the meeting, speaking very kind H.Hector, whom he was pleased to introduce to the large audience assembled before him.Mr.Hector was, as usual, ententaining and convincing He clearly showed that while slavery had brought to his race many blessings, such as education, civi- Mzation, hospitals and doctors, and religion, this system of \u2018the liquor traffic endorsed and sustained by the Government and people of Canada had not brought one single blessing, but had \"damned souls and blasted and ruined «lives everywhere and always.He made very many telling hits, illustrating with stories highly amusing and yet deep with strong truths.\"The liquor element does not relish the hard hits that just now are being given and so the son of a saloon-keeper took pleasuge yesterday in driving his fist through e bulletin announcing the meeting, at the door of the chapel.To-night Mr.meeting in the Eaat Church.Hector will address a End Methodist POINT ST.CHARLES CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.The \u2018annual meeting of the Po.nt St, Charles Congregational Church for the election of officers took place last evening, and was very large and sucoessful.The Rev.Thomas Hall, pastor of the church, presided, end all the reports were most encouraging.The edmis- sions during the year have placed Point Bt.Charles first on the roll of Congregational churches in Canada, and the pro rata increase in every other direction also hoids the highest place.The Inoome for the year wes $2,062,0f which $601 was for the Sunday-school, home and forelgn missions, and the Congregational College of Canada.There was a surplus in the treasurer's statement of about forty dollars.During the past year the church building and Sundaÿ-schoc! room have had steam-heating apparatus put in, and have been lighted by the Auer process, to the very great comfort of the congregation.The elections resulted as follows:\u2014Deacons \u2014Messrs.W.C.Kent, George Eills, Jobn Symons, D.Barton, C.Cushing and Chas.F.Fraser.Mr.Donaldgon was also elected,but desired to be relieved this year.Trustees\u2014 Messrs, Wm.Sargeant, Charles J.Williams, Samuel Dixon, Henry Carmichael, Robert Cowan, James Price and Robert Boyd.Church board\u2014The Descons and Messrs.Washington M.Perrigard, James Price, R.Boyd, George W.Mingie, Wm.C.Bgott, J.Crawford and James Armstrong.Board of Deaconasses\u2014 Mrs.Williams, Mrs.Barton, Mrs.O'Brien, Mrs.Boyd, Mrs.XlHs.Mrs.Charles and Mrs.Price.Sunday-schooi superintendent\u2014 Mr.Charles Cushing.Choir leader\u2014Mr.R.Donaldson, fr.Church clerk-\u2014Mr.Fraser.Treasurer, Mr.Symons.Envelope steward, Mr.Kent.Treasurer for thes Congregational College and Widows\u2019 and Orphans\u2019 Fumd, Mr.Wm.Sargeant, jr.Home missions, Mrs.Charles.Foreign missions, Mes Munroe.Ushers, Mr.Scott, Mr.Mingie, Mr.Perrigard, Mr.Sargeant, Mr.Williams, Mr.Cowan.It is worthy of mention also that during the past year this church overpowered and extinguished that noted tavern, the Victoria Bridge Hotel, and in its place is now operating, at greatfy expense of \u2018time, energy and means, the Point St.Charlen Institute, now recogmized as a public bemefaction, and receiving very general and much needed support from generous minded citizens of all denominations.flee PERSONAL.Mgr.Moreau, Bishop of St.Hyaeinthe, celebrated the eighteenth anniversary of his consecration yesterday.Mayor Desjardins and Mrs.Desjardins have been invited to take part in the ball at Quebec on Jan.31, in henor of the Governor-General\u2019s visit to the carnival.They regret that they will not be able to attend.: \u2014\u2014e*\u2014-, CITY ITRMS.Five more actions for the collection of the commercial case were entered in court this moming.\u2019 Michael Brennan, the insane man who tried to commit suicide In a pelite cell, a short time ago, has been sent to Longue Pointe asylum.The wholesale dry goods committee of the Board Trade held à meeting this afiternoon if connection with matters relating to the trade.The visiting governors to the Protestant Hospital for the Insans for the week, commencing Jan.2, are Messrs, Romeo Stephens, Jas.Tasker, Wm.Smith and Richard White.i NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.(Special to the '\"Witness.\") THE NEW BINDER TWINE FACTORY.Ottawa, Jan.17.\u2014Mr, J.Connor, cordage mnnnfactyrer, St.John, N.B., has been awarded a contract by the Government to put in the plant for the new binder twine factory at the Kingsion penitentiary.The capacity of the machinery to be put in wil be about five thousand pounds a day end will employ about forty men.An expert foreman will he procured at a salary of $L.600.IL has also been decided to purchase at firet three hundred tons of maniTia fibre, the raw material.The department has been in communication with firms in Galt and New Jersey to purchase the plant but these negotiations have apparently falled and under the contract with Mr.Connor he will be at liberty to purchase the machinery where he pleases.The vote taken in Parliament provides for an appropriation of $20,000.The amount of Mr.Connor's contract has not been divulged.BOARD OF TRADE OFFICERS.The annual meeting of the Board of Trade last night elected the officery for the year as follows: President.W.Scott: vice-president, Jos.Kavanagh, and ser- ond vice-president, Crawford Ross; secretary, N.8.Garland.HOME RULE, SYMPATHISERS.A meeting of cltizens was held last night to further the Home Rule meeting here next week, which Mr.Blake is to address.Ex-Ald.Heney presided and Mr.Stanton acted as secretary.Mr.F.B.Hayes was appointed treasurer.Senator Scott, Dr.McCabe, Con- sul-General Riley and other well-known persons were in attendance.Five hum» dred dollars was subscribed among the committee, THE WOMEN'S NATIONAL COUNCIL.A local branch of the Women's Nn- tional Council of Canada was organized here yesterday.The Council chamber was eroweded by the best people in the city.Her Excellency Lady Aberdeen, president of the council, presided and delivered an address outlining the objects of the movement.Her Excellency won all hearts by her earnestness and sweet solicitude for the good of others.A bramch union was formed with effictent office-bearens and a large membership.Lady Thompson, wife of the Prime Minister, occupied a Seat on the platform immediately to the right of Her Excellency .\u2014\u2014 VOLUNTEERS FOR HONOLULU.(Special to the \u2018Witness.\u201d) Vancouver, B.C., Jan.17.\u2014-Five or six able-bodied men are offering themselves to the recruting officers of the prospective company of volunteers, which, it is alleged, are going to Honolulu, to help Queen Lilluokalanl against her enemies.The promoter of the scheme is an ex-Riel rebellion man, and although he is getting lots of moral support and volunteers, the treasury is empty and the scheme will fall through.verse fp os me A UNITED STATES BOND ISSUE.Washington, Jan.17.\u2014Secretary Car- lHsle during the day will officially announce a bond issue.What form this announcement will take cannot be positively stated until the official statement is made.It is believed, however, that the announcement will be in the form of an advertisement inviting bids for five percent bonds at a figure that will make the rate of interest three percent a year.The bonds will be issued under the Resumption Act of 1875, but what amount will be issued cannot now be stated.Under the Resumption Act the three classes of bonds run as follows: 4 percent ithity years, 4 1-2 percent fifteen years, 5 percent ten years.\u2014_\u2014 THAT FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.New York, Jan.17.\u2014At the office of the Southern Associeted Rafiway lines it was said, this morning, that the passengers injured by the accident last night at Chester, S.C., were probably occupants of the slegper which left New York via the Pennsylvania, at 12.16 o'clock on Tuesday morning.This is the through ear for Jacksonville, Fla., over the Richmond and Danville Railway.\"The only other sleeper on this train is switched off the main line at Charlotte.Washington, Jan.17.\u2014A telegram from General Superintendent McBee, of the Richmord and Danville Railway, shows \u2018that the accident at the crossing near Chester, S.C., thés morning, was not so serious as at first reported.There were only ten passengers on the wracked Pullman, and only five of these were injured.Pullman conductor Davis was sl\u2019ghtly bruised.The Company's surgeon says none of the passengers are seriously hurt Fairview, N.J.,, Jan.17.\u2014A construction tram on the Northern Pacific Railway, New Jersey, was wrecked on à tresile near this place this morning.Several men were killed and twelve or thirteen - mjured.Six of the injured have been taken to the Hoboken hos- pial.MORE FIGHTING IN MEXICO.Demiug, N.M., Jan.17.\u2014Another akir- mish between the Mexican troops and the Temochian rebels has oecurred in the Bocahiniva country, thirty niles north of Ascension.Three of the troops were killed.The others were taken prisoners, but afterwards released.An uncenfirmed rumor is current that ane other battle was fought yesterday near the Mextean Central Railway, in the interior, and that twenty-five soidiers were killed.tet THE SIAMESE EVACUATING.Parts, Jan.17\u2014A letter from Bangkok states that the Siamese are evacuating the left bank of the Mekong river in accordançe with the agreement entered into with France.The villages on that side of the river have been scoured and burnt by the Siamese troops engaged in clearing the country for French posses- gion.The inhabitants and all the Siamese prisoners are being taken across the river as rapidly as possible, reels LORD HANNEN WORSE.London, Jar.17\u2014The condition of Lord Hannen, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, who was one of the British arbitrators in the Behring sea tribunal, has become worse.He has been suffering for some time from nervous prostration, the result of everwork.He is extremely weoak- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1594 A SURPRISE IX COURT AN ALTERED ACCUSATION BASED ON THE DAMAGE Tite - NAMITERS MIGHT DONE.Hav, THE CELEBRATED NILSSON MONUUr+- DIMINISHED, BY THE WAYS CF Tir TO A TWENTY DOLLAR CASE OT.SONERS PLEAD GUILTY AND apr LEASED ON PERSONAL DAIL.The Nelson monument ofr - - sumed this morning.Vastordy- James Cochranc and dan, Aichiael + contractors, the action of dynamite.gave evid.o Mr.« put the amount of damage the .used by the three accusé} mix done, at five dollars.Hefor.wag begun the crowd gather | the Court House in larze num The « resumed in Judge Desnnvers pr crowd was disappointed.fice.It hud come do an to a matt.cash.The room was crowd- was the judge, Mr.Meroler.A : soleil, High Constable Bissane- lawyers and reporters and (>.was crowded with students.Acting on the advice of thoi» the accused pleaded Fe elected to have a summary then the Police Court wa- © Judge Dugas was cases.1t was arranged tha: should be heard in the r Queen's Bench.That shod few minutes.\u2018In the mesn Mr.Mercier, \u2018I will see that tr.get away.Then turning Chief Constable, \u2018I do no: services will be required.\u201d 4.Mr.Bissonnette, \u2018I wil take v.o - - .for their safety.\u201d There vs laughter in court Mr.Sicotte read the charge The accused were charged wn t+ they did attempt to wilfaliv 1.\u2018not husy to Nelson monument, and if s: ! + had been commiited it +.amounted to $20.\" To this charge the three 1.pleaded guilty.The aconseq been asked whether thev had a- to say, Mr.Mercier answered © \u2018The accusation againat 1h: men was serious, and might ha - a serious result.I resisted t!- because it was not taken in & - with the facts.The action was tuted for conspiracy, according tute 488.I induced my son and +h : two to plead guilty provided the.wag changed aecording to fac - it please the Court, I am in a position, and regret deeply th: has forgotten himself.and al.self to enter into this affai: ~ into it\u201d Mr.Mercier then explain-i he was there had been any time to life or property.\\ events the damage couil not have ceeded $10.This fact was very cons to himself and the parecats of the boys.H= particularly wanted to one thing.During the past two there had been too many fiery published inciting young men.és) in relation to the Nelson mor Nelson was a great man and a ¢ England.He captured two Frenchmen, but it is nat our yp.seek revenge on a deal man monument rests in this ity wo majority are French.The mio was erected there before our tin: the time of the accused.and 1\" does not lessen in the least t- of the French nationality.We a mixed community.It is uv to respect the English racz, doing no injury.\u2019 Then Mr.Mercier wound up w- jesture, \u2018This fs a lamentable 4 your Honor, and I hope vou will all the facts into consideratinn Judge Dugas will pass senten.MOrTOoW.Meanwhile allowed to go free on personal bul .> COMING P.OF I.NOMINATION (Special to the \u2018Witness.Toronto, Jan.17.\u2014Patrons of Indus still continue nominating candida Lanark county will nominate candide for both the Local and Dominion F llament on Saturday, Jan.27, at N tague.South Huron Patrons will nor a candidate for the Local Leg.- at Hensall, on Jan.24.po dan West Kent Patrons will nor :\" À candidate for the Legislatur- Feb.6.Kent Patrons meet at Chatham 6 to nominate a candidate fur the ¢ mons.East Kent Patrons will nomiv: candidate for the Legislature at i\u201d esville on Feb.13.Conventions to bring out the dates against the Hons.GW.Rs C.F.Fraser will be held at MM on Ja -\u2018 Brydges (West Middlesex) and at Brockville on Jan.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 ST.NICHOLAS STREET.The commissioners for the wider \"=\" St.Nicholas street are pushing » \"- Witnesses have been examined +- the properties required.The is claims will be heard next week should be sent in to the comnus=IcT once.The following are the Valuation+ far: Estate Langelier, corner =\" | and Commissioners, $2.50 and $7 witnegses) 34.50 and $5.50 (proprietors?nesses).James Coristine, St.Paul =o $2.50 (ality), and $4.00 (proprietor).Lb» of Trade, corner St.Sacrament.* , (city), and $4.50 (prcprietors).Bound - Trade, St.Nlcholas street, 2.25 (12° and $3.50 (proprietors).> NOTES AND NOTICES.If you want to buy a housc or a tot, to rent a house or to Je one, apply to Hi.M.SIMPSON 380 St.John street.27.the accuséi e Wi sma 8 CH! 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Highly recommended by leading physi- cians\u2014Dyer\u2019s Digestive Malt Extract for indigestion, weakness, ete.Sold by all druggists.1 Said a sharp lawyer to 8 rambling witness\u2014 \u2018Now you must give explicit and exact answers.You said you drove a milk-cart, did you nat?\u2018No, sir, I didn't\u201d \u2018Don't you drive a milk-cart?\u2018No, sir.\u2019 \u2018Aha! What do you do, sir?\u201d \u2018I drive a horse, air.\u2019 | Baby's Life Saved.\u2014Mrs.John Johnston, of Torontn.writes us, that after using Robinson's Patent Barley, her infant was snatched from the grave.All grocers and druggists sell it.17 \u2018I say, Jessie, do you understand French?\u201d \u2018A little.Do you\u201d \u2018Oh.yes.I understand it very well; because when pa and ma talk French I am going to have medicine.Neuralgia instantly cured by Nervol.One application gives immediate relief.25 cents at all druggists, or John T.Lyons, oornier of Craig and Bleury streets.11 A young lady who has suffered from \u2018box- smashing\u2019 has had her trunks covered w.th flannel this season, having heard that flannel is a good chest protector.* We would not be without them.A lady in Western Canada writes, We would not be without Robinson's Patent Barley for any consideration.Please send us another dozen tins.\u2019 17 When a person gets Into hot water vou may De sure that he has furnished his shere of the fuel to heat the same.Business Cards.ON'T BUY RICKETY BAMBEO EASELS ASELS FOR £1.08, \u2014 AT\u2014 G.W.WILLSON'S, Manufacture: of Moulding and [Frames Craig street, Next door to the \u2018Witness ore Dice.Special prices to the trade.8 A WARNING TO NOUSEKEEPERS, Having been mads aware of the fact that cen tain unscrupulous dealers have Leon in the habit of selling their customers goods of inferies quality, as my cure and manufacture, and in order to protect my uumerous friends, and the publio in general, against such fraud being perpetrated in the future, I havo caused to be registered THE TRISTIE ERAND, Under which wade mark my goods shall be known mod offered for sale by all high class grocers and butchers throughout the city.Ask for and insist upon getting JAMES MARPFR'S THISTLE BRAND HAMXS, BACON, SAUSAGES, PURE LARD, &o.Retail Stalls, 24 and 25 St.Lawrence Market, Packing House, 18 8T.PHILLIP STRERX MPHANKS.Messrs.RICE & BENNETT desire to thank the public for their generous patronage during the Holiday searcn.EXCELLENT WORK isa grand advertisement\u2014 that is their motto.STUDIO, 141 AT.PETER STREET.ONLY 25c A BOTTLE.The QUEEN'S HAIR HELPER is a preparation that restores hair to its natural color and beauty, atrests falling out, removes dandruft and cures bald: pess.tis nota dye.lustimulates and invigsratis the roots reducing a rapid h, full of [34 and heal! he clear part makes a superior equal at any 50c or $l preperation.For salé by « i Druggists, or at À.P.MANNS, Corner Mountain and H.Antoine streets.KATES FOR BOYS, SHATES FOR GIRLS, ng better suited for Christmea Presents foi ing bt Girls\u2019.Skates ground, polished and put on.i- Spebi attentions iven Watch pairing- location.Personal instruction and superv - M Pas and 25 leurs eet.sion.CANON DAVIDSON, M.A, eI en FED GR 2 2 area ag at de a ne Ss FAR Eig Sipe 0 M.PHILBIN, Queens Block 2231 St.Catherine street.razr SS WE pt he | il fia ae TRA er, : ea.cl EES x AR.IN EER re NA \u2014\u2014\u2014e THE MAN JUST LANDED.HE JOINS THE STRAP-BRIGADE IN A ST.CATHERINE STREET CAR.Sma AN IRISH CONEDY WITH ELECTRIC TRIMMINGS ~A LAUGH THAT NEARLY DERAILED THE TROLLEY\u2014THE CONDUCTOR A MODEL OF PATIENCE AND THE RALE OULD 80D A SOURCE OF PLEASANTAT.The St Catherine street car was already fuil, but the trarsfers and others who had walted at \u2018the corner of Bleury street, determined to crowd in irrespective of the uncemfortable results that generally arise from this condition of things.It was a mad rush and the corpulent man who did more than his share in swelling the crowd, suffered proportionately more than the ordinary patrons af the Street Railway Company.Among those who struggled to get a footing on the step of the car wes a man with an ] A ; Q le ST Ih: 0 \u2014 LAN SE D excited eye and tremendous pushing powers.He held a short but heavy etick in his hand, and swinging it high up over his head, with the evident intention of attracting the eye of the conductor, shouted out, \u2018Hey, me bye, tell me, is this the car for \u2018\u2018Comedy\u2019\u2019 strate.\u2019 The conductor was busy shoving people up to the front end of the car.\u2018Och, wirra, wirra what a counthry this 18 to be sure.Say, me bye.\u2019 \u2018Get in or move out of the way,\u201d from a man who was anxious to be a passenger on that car.\u2018Nary an inch will Of move till Of Know if this car goes to Comedy Strate.Hi, bi, me bye! Och, did ye ever see the lolkss he pays no more attention to ye than if ye wor a cow.Oi want to know {if this car gees to Comedy strate ?\u201d\u201d .\u2018You mean Chomedy street, don\u2019t you?said the conductor, with hig hand on the bell rope.= ° > \u2018Ol want to go to Comedy strate and no other.Will yez take me there?\u2018Oh, yes we'll take you to Comedy street.\u201d \u2018AN\u2019 why didn\u2019t yez say so in the first place without so much fuss.Ough, but they didn\u2019t do things like that in Oir- land.Such a eounthry! Two bells, and the car moved on.At Alexander street the car stopped.\u2018Be sure an\u2019 let me off at Comedy strate.\u2019 \u2018Don\u2019t be afraid,\u2019 repited the conductor, and he jerked the bell rope.The car stopped again at Phillips square.The Irishman put his hand = lovingly on the conductor's shoulder, \u2018Ye'll let me off at Comedy strate, loik a good bye?\u2018T'll see that you get the right street,\u2019 said e hand-strap passenger, assuringly.\u2018That's roight.O\u2019ive only been three days in the counthry and don\u2019t know where Oi am; oh, what a place it is to be sure.Oi niver thought Of was comin\u2019 to a place loike this.\u2019 \u2018Don\u2019t you like it\u201d - \u2018Faith and Oi don\u2019t, and as for these strate cars, Ol don\u2019t like their stoyle at all, at all.Why they would murther these conductors in Oireland.\u2019 \u2018How do you stand the cold?\u201d \u2018Och, sure, Oi don't moind it; but OI expected to see bears at every strate corner, and Of don\u2019t see them at all.\u2019 The whole car laughed, and every one took a deeper interest in the man just landed.\u2018Say; conductor, Of want to get off at Comedy street, shure.\u2019 \u2018You are not near it yet,\u201d replied the personage addressed.\u201cThat's right, me bye.Och, but Of don't understand the ways of the blessed counthry at all.\u2019 The car made another stop.\u2018Don't let me pass that strate.\u2019 The conductor paid mo attention but pulled the bell for the eignal to go on.\u201cThe could is not so bad, but why did Ot lave home, Oi don't know.Oireland is a paradise to this.This place is all hills and hollows.You are up one minute and down the next, and faith ye don't know where ye are.The roads in Oireland are so nicet and level that in Oireland are so nice and level thet ye can pick up a sixpence anywhere without soiling yer fingers.Is that \u2018 y'' strate ?The conduotor shouted \u2018Guy.\u2019 A portly woman, with a red face and twinkling eve, and a basket of market stuff on her lap, now joined in the con- vereation, In a high key.Bhe had evidently been out some time, beautiful | tary; J.Brennan, treasurer.] \u2018Sixpences, indade,\u2019 they don't lay long on the roads of Oireland.Ha! ha! ho! ho! Och, but ye naden't look ait me.Ye are not the one to think about soilin\u2019 yer fingers when there are eix- pences around.He ! he ! h-ary,\u2019 and she drew up her laugh to the pinnacle of the highest key, and lay back in her seat, comfortably; keeping her eye on the man just landed, all the timre.The whole car was convulsed with laughter, and some passengers forgot to get out at their own streets, The Irishman only looked disgusted, and remarked that \u2018It bates the Dutch.\u2019 It bates the French, too,\u2019 answered the fat woman, giving another of her hearty laughs.\u2018Och, but what a lot of worry there is over here, to be sure.Oi\u201d11 skedaddle out of it as quick as I kin, for I won't live here at all, at all.How the people live here Of don\u2019t know.\u2018They tell me they are dying off by thousands.That's what I hear.\u2019 \u2018Och, jist listen to the man.It's jist the loikes of him that be doin\u2019 tthe country harrem.Sure, an\u2019 why didn't ye sthay in Oirland and ate praties.That's all yer fit for.Ha! ha! ho! ho! hi! hi! h-a-v.\" .That last laugh nearly derailed the car.At amy rate it was all the passengers could do to hold on to the straps.The car stopped at this juncture.\u2018Say, oconduotor, Is this Comedy strate ?\u201cNext street,\u2019 answered the conductor.\u2018But ye are a good bye.\u2019 .At Chomedy street the car stopped, but the Irishman was interested in a conversation with some of the passengers, and did not seem to hear the conductor\u2019s call.\u201cThis is Chomedy street,\u2019 said one of the passengers, tapping him on the shoulder, \u2018Is this \u201cComedy\u201d strate ?tell me.\u2019 \u2018This is where you get off.Hurry up,\u2019 from the conductor.Ye don\u2019t \u2018All roight; thank ye; OM am much obliged to ye.Hould on, nie bye, and the stranger in a strange land made a rush for the door, muttering something about the way things are done in this country.There was a general laugh in the car after he left, in which the conductor and fat old woman joined, the latter taking a leading part.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 BRITISH COLUMBIA ANNUAL.The Vancouver daily and weekly \u2018World\u2019 has issued as a supplement a beautifully #lustrated annual which comprises a hundred large pages devoted to information about British Columbia, artistic illustrations, stories, humor, statistios and valuable information.Its facts about British Columbia are extremely interesting and valuable, while its half-tone illustrations, wood engravings and etchings are beautifully executed and well printed.In addition it contains facts concerning the whole\u2019 of Camada, together with pages \u2018of curious and valuable matters in relation to all kinds of subjects, while it has not forgotten interesting storles, both serious and humorous.This annual is an indication of the enterprise amd progress of our most western province, as well as of the Vancouver \u2018World\u2019 which publishes it.It is given free to the subscribers of the daily and weekly \u2018World,\u2019 and sold to alb others for fifty cents, tan KNIGHTS OF LABOR.The annual meeting of District Assembly 18 took place on Monday evening for the election of officers and to recelve the various reports.The following were elected for the ensuing term: \u2014R.Kerni- gan, master workman; J.Goodfellow, worthy foreman; J.H.Dodd, recording secretary; 8.Metcalfe, financial secre- Executive board\u2014W.Snow, J.Dodd, B.Feeney, M.H.Brennan and L.Z.Boudreau.; District Assembly 19, at their meeting on Saturday evening, elected the follow- mg officers for the ensuing term: \u2014J.A.Rodier, master workman; M.Hogue, worthy foremam; J.A.Renaud, recording secretary; H.Gravel, financial sec- retaxy; A.Blondin, statistician.Executive board\u2014A.Blondin, M.A.Campeau, P.Droiet, O.Lessard and J.À.Renaud.FUNBRAL SERVICE.A requiem mass was chanted in the chapel of the Sacred Heart, Notre Dame Church, this morning, for the repose of the soul of the late Victor Oli- von, founder of the Union Nationale Francalee.ee rer COMMERCIAL NOTES.A declaration of the incorporation of the Montreal Temple Company has been rexistered in the Tutelle office.THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.THE PLEBISCITE VOTE.HOW ONTARIO'S MANDEMENT MAY BE DEALT WITH.(Special Correspondence of \u2018Witness.\u201d) Toronto, Jan.13.\u2014The plebiscite vote on the prohibition question has resulted in developing certain differences of opin- ton as to what the policy of the prohibitionists should be under the existing conditions.The majority for prohibition was so much greater numerically, and so much more widely diffused geographically, than was expected that something must be attempted as the result; but by whom, in what direction, and to whet extent?The proposais put forward by different propegandists are somewhat indefinite, but they may be distingutshed as (1) a projected local option campaign\u201d against municipal licenses under the provisions of the present Provincial license law; (2), an effort to abolish retail licenses by a general Provincial law, such as the Marter bill of last session; and, (3) an attempt to abolish ihe manufacture and sale of alcoholic.liquors by Provincial legislation.throwing on the Romini : ment the responsibility of dealing with the importation., LOCAL OPTION is, it must be confessed,not popular just now.It is weighted down with many weaknesses, amongst them the difficulty of enforcing prehvition within so small an area as à Village, a town, or a township, and the uncerntalnty as to the validity of the non-license municipal bylaws.The jurisdiction issue now pending in the Supreme Court zrew out ot an effort to guash such a by-law on the ground that 'the local option clauses are without the competence \u2018of the Provincial Legisiature to enact.Until that issue is settled it is useless, objectors eay, to enter into such a campaign as has been proposed.Moreover, they point out, \u2018what we voted on in the plebiscite was not local option but general and, as nearly as may be, total prohibition\u2014i.e., general in geographical area and as complete.as possible in scope of enactment.We did not declare by the vote our wish to have the experiment of abolishing licenses tried within single municipalities each of which is surrounded by other municipalities granting licenses; we did declare our desire to have the manufacture, importation and sale prohibited.\u201d That there is force in this objection may be seen at a glance, and \u2018therefore to all appearance the local option campaign will be abandoned before it is begun or shortly after.THE ANTI-LICENSE CRUSADE is scarcely more popular just now.Its aim is to prevent all municipalities from issuing hotel and shop licenses for the retailing of intoxicating drinks.It is not open to the objection that the area of the experiment would be marrow, for J} it would include the whole province, but it is open to the objection that to grant such legislation would not conform to the demand made by the plebiscite vote.Moreover ,the same question of furisdic- tion- come up.If the local option clauses of the license lay are ultra vires of the Provincial Legislature then so must also be any statute which assumes to deprive all municipalities of the licensing power.It will be remembered, also, that Sir Oliver Mowa{ in his argument of last session on the Marter bill, expressed the opinion that if the provincial jurisdiction over the Hquor traffic is wide enough to include the retail trade it is wide enough to include also selling by wholesale.The proposal to enact the Marter bill, therefore, or any thing like it, meets just now with little favor.\u2018Time enough to fall back on that,\u2019 it is seid, \u2018when we find out that we can get nothing better.We have just demanded something better by our votes and we are determined to see what we can get.\u2019 THE MAXIMUM OF PROHIBITION demanded from the Ontario Legislature just now by the moat, exireme prohibitionist is (1) the prohibition of the sale in large as well as.small\u2019 quantities, and (2) the prohibition of the manufacture of alcoholic liquors.The first measure would cut off all whele- sale as well as retail licenses, and the second would close up all distilleries and breweries.Unfortunately the importation of liquors would be stimulated, and this would be a serious drawback to any scheme of the kind here outlined.The only way in which the experiment of prohibition can be fairly tried is to secure concerted action as between the Dominion and the Provincial Parliament if it turns out that the Provincial Parliament has a right to prohibit both the sale and the manufacture.How such concert is to be secursd does not at this juncture seem at all clear.In, all probability no important step forward will, or can, be taken till the Supreme Court, and probably also the Privy Counctl, has.defined the iimit of provincial jurisdiction in the premises.Dr.J.J.McLaren has in a published interview, informed the public that he will represent the Ontario Government in the argument before the Supreme Court, and there is a general feeling that the case could not have been committed to better hands.A few weeks will clear away some of the clouds that now obscure the view and show the path along which the province.and perhaps also the Dominion, must proceed.Meanwhile there is a sensible subsidence of impatience as if those who have just won a great victory feel that they can afford to proceed cautioudly in order to ensure another.THE NEW CITY COUNCIL has not yet met, but its influence is already felt in various ways.One of these is the discouragement of the \u2018boomers\u2019 of water supply schemes.The Council will, to all appearance, turn \u201ca deaf ear to the most seductive allurements that are not based on business proposals.No scheme for a ship canal from the Georgian Bay will go down, and If a proposal to supply electric power by means of a water power tunnel from Lake Simcoe is what is really meant then that will have to be made clear.Amother effect of the foreshadowing influence of the new Council is the fear, or hope, that there may be a general reduction in civic salaries, or a partial reduction of the civic staff.A stern determination to bring the rate of assessment on a moderate valuation of Mon .Govern-.cé real property down to a cent and a half on the dollar, is expressed by the new civic legislators and is endorsed by the taxpayers, Mayor Kennedy will popularize himself if he succeeds in this attempt.He will be called strictly to account MK he falls, after promising so much.AN INTERESTING COPYRIGHT CABB has been sprung suddenly and somewhat mysteriously on the public within the past few days.Whatever \u2018scare\u2019 there may at first have been it is already evident that the whole affair cannot amount to much.School pupils must continue to- use the reading books that contain the copyrighted pieces, no matter what happens to the Educational Department, and the rights and wrongs of parties under the copyright law must be determined by appeal to the courts.The question is simplified very much by the fact that the contract with the publishers for the present Ontario readers is near its expiration, and the Covernment can eas- fly have a new set of readers ready by the time it actually expires.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014_p>\"\u2014 CORNWALL NOTES.» (Special te the \u2018Witness.\u2019) NEW ENTERPRISES.Cornwall, Jan.156.\u2014A long felt want fin this section is the presence of a lo-, cal building and savings society.This want will likely soon be filed as a number of local capitalists are about fofming themselves into an association, to be known as the Eastern District Building and Savings Society.The Cone Coupler Carriage Co., of Kalamazoo, Mich.are corresponding with the Town Council with a view of opening a branch fagtory in Cornwall.The new factory will require a building with twenty-five thousand feet of floor, and will employ a .large number of hands.it now looks as though the building of the Sheik\u2019s Island dams, which will give this town almost unlimited water power, will date the opening of a new era of prosperity for Cornwall.MISREPRESENTATION.A young man is said to be travelling through the adjoining townships soliciting aid for a family said to have been burned out at Dickinson\u2019s Landing.The Rev.R.W.Samuel, rector of Wales, says that he knows of no family being burned out at Dickinson's Landing, and that if his name is on the list, as is alleged, it is a forgery.NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.(Special to the \u2018Witness\u201d ATTEMPTED SUICIDE\u2014PERBONAL.Ottawa, Jan.16.\u2014In the Palace Hotel, this morning, Helmut Von Voslsy, a trombone player in the orchestra of an opera company, attempted suicide with a razor.He cut hig chest and abdo- \u2018men and wrists in a desperate attempt to let out his life's blood.He was dis- \u2018covered, arrested, and taken to the hos- | pital.He will recover.Canadian whiskey is said to be responsible.The Hon.Mr.Chapais,Judge Pelletier, - Messrs.Panet and Angers of Quebec, are here.Messrs, Tache and Dionne, of Quebec, are here to urge claims for damages for vis accident on the.Intercoionial.8 AN ITALIAN BANKER ARRESTED.HELD IN CANADA FOR AN ALLEGED ORIME COMMITTED IN NEW YORK.New York, Jan.15.\u2014 Inspector Mc- Laughlin reported to-day the capture, in Toronto, Canada, yesterday of a young Italian named Vincenzo Zarreli, aged twenty-five years, who is charged with grand larceny.\u2018A.Bolognesi, an Italian banker, of No.67 Exchange Place, is the complainant.He went to police headquarters on December 11 and related How Zarreli had come to him and obtained 13,000 lire ($2,240) on a bogus cheque on the Merchants\u2019 and Traders\u2019 Bank.Detective Krauch was assigned to the case, and notices were sent tp all the principal cities of America and Europe.He was arrested by H.J.Gras- sett, chief constable of Toronto, and will be held until Detective Krauch goes after him.Zarrell was at one time engaged- in the banking business in this city, chiefly with Italians.eter etn.THE WILSON BILL AMENDED.Washington, Jan.16.\u2014The House worked smoothly and methodically today on amendments to the Wilson bill.These were offered by the chairman himself and all were agreed to accept, one providing that the free wool clause strong fight was made on this amendment and it was still pending when the House took a recess at 5.30.The amendments agreed to make the tariff on furs for hatters\u2019 use from 20 to 10 percent ad \u201cvalorem, calf skin patent and japanned leather, dressed upper leather, chamois and other skins, from 20 to 15 percent; all hydrographic charts to be placed on free lista The rate on condensed milk was changed from 20 percent ad valorem to two cents per pound.Chair canes or reeds, wrought or manufactured from rattan or 1eeds, were taken from the free list and a tariff of seven percent ad valorem imposed.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 A NOVEL AND DANGEROUS MODE OF BATHING.New York, Jan.15.pAn accident to Ike Weinstein, of No.38 Grand street, shows a dangerous mode of bathing prevailing on the east side.1t is a practice among the poor Hebrews to take a Russian beth by throwing waiter into an open furnace, where the steam will belch forth over them.One of those places is at No.5 Aller street.Weinstein went there yesterday evening for a bath.He threw a pailfui of cold water into the furnace in tie usual way, but made the mistake of standing too near the opening.He was badly scalded and had to be taken to the Gouverneur Hospital to-day.: .\u2018 ue STEINITZ WILL NOT SPEAK.New York, Jan.15.\u2014W.Steinitz, the champion chess player of the world, and Emmanuel Lasser, the celebrated German chess piayer, mat at the Manhattan Chess Club cñ Satrday.afternoon, when it was expécted that Steinitz would give Lasker an answer to the latter's letter asking to put down a forfeit of $260 for the proposed match for $2,250 à side on January 22.Steinitz declined to give an answer.â juries sustained by clients in the Le- | should go into effect on Aug.{ next.A.trade.oe & WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1804 Le HOLIDAY ECHOES.A MOST DELIGHTFUL CHRISTMAS TBEE AT RADNOR FORGES.(Correspondence of the \u201cWitness.\u201d) Radnor Forges, Jan.13.\u2014The festive season struck this vicinity in the form of a Christmas tree festival about two weeks ago, and owing to the unique character of the proceedings, combined with the pleasure enjoyed by all present, your correspondent sends a report even at this late date.The artistic decorations of the schoolroom, consisting of mottoes (French and English), wreaths of evergreens, interspersed with red berries, and flags, reflect great credit on the decorative committee.On the platform were our genial superintendent, Mr.Drummond, and our popular and venerable Father Prince, from St.Maurice.The pupils of both schools took part in the short programme, and did credit to their teachers and themselves for the way in which they equipped themselves In recitations, dialogues, etc.The union of the pupils of both schools, the mottoes, in both languages, the kindly interest of the C.I.F.Company in their employees, as shown by the books and cards, candy, and well-lighted tree, etc., were indeed suggestive of a living recognition of the brotherhood of man, and our common interest in Christ, which alone can give us a happy Christmas.After this display of unity among representatives of both races, suggesting a practical and friendly solution of the \u2018race\u2019 question, came a social, taken part in by everybody.I need not speak of the tables, with their inviting display of cake, fruit, nuts, dtc., with fragrant coffee and pleasant waiters.The hour spent in the refreshment room will be long remembered by the guests of the evening.After refreshments the crowd descended to the school room, when the more intellectual part of the programme was to be carried out Among so much that was good, your correspondent shrinks from selecting any as being best.The Christmas decorations were still on the walls, and the bright happy faces of the crowd of parents and children clearly indexed the fact that the social thermometer registered a genial degree of warmth.Readings, recitations, songs, .with and without words, etc., all were received with merited approval.The lively jackdaw again hopped for our amusement, and we listened to what the wild waves said, although we are many miles from the ocean and hundreds of feet above sea level.The sad stories of war were eloquently told by those who had | never slept en a battlefield.Boilers described most grotesque gyrations, and deadly (7) powder continued its most dire course of destruction as told by the humerous reciter.The presentation of a carriage to our superintendent.for the use of \u2018little Miss Drummond,\u2019 as a token of the goodé feeling entertained by the \u2018men\u2019 towards himself, Mrs.D.and the little stranger, was a very pleasant interlude (I dare not say \u2018interval\u2019 or \u2018tableau,\u2019 as those words have other associations with the evening\u2019s proceedings).in the programme.Your correspondent begs to suggest that another \u2018soc\u2019al\u2019 would be a very pleasant method of spending an evening, and thinks it might be held in connection with the Radnor Reading Room.Hoping that this suggestion may commend ftself to the parties concerned, and that they may not be prevented from following it bv that dire disease influenza, your correspondent closes with the wish that he may be present at the next social in Radnor, and that he will not have to wait very long for it.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 GRUESOME STORY FROM BRAZIL.New York, Jan.16.\u2014The \u2018Herald's\u2019 Montevideo special says: Information has been received here from the Rio Grande do Sul frontier that the insurgents have abandoned the siege of Barge, owing to the near approach of a strong govermment force which has been sent to the garrison as relief.It is sald Gen.Tavarez before leaving Bage beheaded all the loyalist prisoners he had made.Later reports received here from Bage give particulars of an important Government victory.They are to the effect that after the rebels had executed their privoners, when retreating from Rage they were met by the Government relief column and a hot fight followed.The Tavarez forces were quickly put to flight, but not before they had left 400 dead on the field.The loyalist loss was four officers and 36 men killed and nine wcunded.The rebels are reported as fleeing toward Santa Anna.Bage has been greatly damaged in the siege.The state of Minas Geraes is buying arms, according to a vote of its legislature.Should Peixoto be defeated at Rio he wiil doubtless seek refuge In Minas Geraes, as he has strong support there.\u2014\u2014 WALES AND THE M\u2019KINLEY TARIFF.DISTRESS AMONG TIN-PLATE WORKERS.Cardiff, Jan.15.\u2014The McKinley tariff is still working disaster in the export trade of South Wales.The tin-plate trade with the United States is only one-third of the productive capacity and has been at a standstill for the last six months.More than five thousand workmen are unemployed, and besides these there are numbers of others indirectly affected.The loss in wages ls computed at £12,000 weekly, while the employers are losing £4,000 weekly.One hundred and sixty out of five hundred mills are 1dle, and there is great distress among all the employees.Many of the families are living on 2s.6d.weekly.ee \u2014\u2014 THE \u2018MIOWERA' AT SAN FRANCISCO.: San Francisco, Jan.16.\u2014The Canadian- Australian steamer \u2018Miowera,\u201d which struck on a reef in the harbor of Honolulu, while on a voyage to Vancouver, B.C., arrived here at 10.40 o'clock this morning, for repairs.The \u2018Miowera\u2019 left Honolulu Jan.5, the day before the \u2018Australian\u2019 sailed, and consequently brings ne news of importance.-\u2014 CUNARD FREIGHT CARRIERS.New York, Jan.16.\u2014The agents of the Cunard Line here to-day recsived word that two great freight carrying steamers for use between this port and Liverpool are to be built by the company.This is a new departure for the Cunard Lime.The boats will be ready by the spring of mext year.Special accommodations will be made for the carrying , possible for Great Britain Trias.CHESNEY ON CAYAS:, HE IS UNNECESSARILY Al spr FOR US.London, Jan.16.\u2014 T.ieut oc; + George Tomkyns Chesney, Co livered a speech in Londo q ing, on the defences of the ÿ- pire.He expressed the oy.the British colonies generals exception of Canada, safe, In the event of United States, he said it Were i WAY ow win À ; i Canada from being dannex.] United States.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 WANTS THE SERVICE IMPP.London, Jan.16\u2014The Mur.Lorne, at a meeting of the Im.stitute, last evening, Ht wir Knutsford presided.stated 11; thing might be done to imp: news sent to and from th.« and the statement thaï ab: uv.ment securing transmission of rectly from the Mother Ccouri-.| Colonies and vice versa ww.great boon, met with applau:- -_ DEMONSTRATION TO MRs.- HARD.Petrolia, Ont.,, Jan.16.\u2014Last - | grand procession paraded t:- here, composed of Oranger- Blues, and the fife and dr The procession started from on Railroad street, and i: Main street to the Jahnu- where they met Mra.Marga, hard in a cab and escorted |.hall, where a private lect.vered by Mrs.shephard to fraternity.The streets wo.so that it was impossible until the procession pussc] hard has been recalled 10 0 \u2018 times, and at her lecture Lu day evening, in Victorta Hu.building was unable io = all the crowds and humdre.- turned away.At the err.tion of the Petrolia peop» + , hard has promised to ro.lia again very shortly.St.Catharines, Oat, Jan | , mite cartridge was found ; stage of the opera houses ir \"the other day, with a fus- - + tit.It is now reported t' : | Give was placed there dri:r igaret L.Shephard's c- rs.popery lectures some m:ri)- \u2014\u2014\u2014> -.\u2014 ONTARIO NOMINATI>3 Arthur, Ont, Jan.15° 7 convention of the Narn Reform Association wa- 1.thur to-day.Mr.Jaume M.P., was again unanin.s.ted as the Reform candi.House of (Commons.Hk- confidence in the leaders = 1 party and Reform principes \u2026e ed.Glencoe, Ont.,, Jan.16.\u2014A\" a of the Patrons of Indusztr:.Middlesex, held at Thompsr: = day, Mr.T.O.Currie, of A ix ceived the nomination.Port Robinson, Ont., Jan.14 - the largest and most enthusi: servative conventions ever * county of Welland was he .re day, in Bennet's hall, when nn lam McCleary, M.L.A.cf I was given the unanimous nn» i] as the Conservative sranderd-l- A for this county in the legislature W three hundred of the most promi Z and Influential Conservatives af county were pr-sent, and the ha! not large enough for the occasion \u2014\u2014\u2014 il BATTLE IN SOUTH AFRIT TWO HUNDRBD AND FIFTY OF CON! SIGCAN\u2019S TROOPS KILLED AND Woo | Cape Town.Jan.15.\u2014Penewet $3 is reported from Ponduland.© - IH er S'gcan attacked the Umaizis hs latter retreated in Natal.+: Es zizis, however, afterward retu'- 5 attacked and defeated Commar can who was compelled to re: the loss of 250 of his troops ki wounded._\u2014 NOT MASSACRED.Capetown, Jan.16.\u2014A desna*c Tati says that the patrol members of the REechuanaland which were supposed to have Le sacred have returned safely The patrol reports having met 1.of armed Matabejes.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE SMALLPOX RECORD QUEPEC FREE où FROM THE DISEASE.The smallpox epidemic in the TU States and parts vf Ontario ha; shows signs of coming lu an early In Reading, Pa.where inere wer cases, onlv séven new ones ha veloped during the last few weei - new cases, making six in all, ported from Hamilton, Ont, v- In Dr.Pelletier\u2019s last report he found seven case\u201d in all Ont: Pennsylvania: Read.ng, 678: P: twelve; Blenheim, eæht; Fritr eight; Midd!etown, four: Mechan ©- three; Philadelphia, one: Jeannet - Alleghany City, one, and Sm one.In Massachusetts: Boston, one; Lowell, seven: Holyoke, four erville, two; Worcester, two, and line, one.In Iliinois: Chicag>.1° Memphis, four; Hull, one.In i\u2019 Me., one case; in Ohio six cas: Connecticut; one in Minnesota © in Chattanooga, Tennessee.The Quebec Provincial Ro Health seeing the cases so we\u2019! do not cons.der a quarantine n- There is no smallpox in the \u2018T of Quebec, but there are quite ber of cases of diphtheria.A: ville, in Temiscouata county.\u201c- vent school has had to he cos\u201d disease is also prevalent in Ste.Bo Degele and St.Paschal, in Kam.county.Dr.Beaudry, the hoa spector, is now at Beauce and » thence proceed to the other ».= °° fected to devise measurez to prev disease from increasing.I THE DAILY WITNESS is printed and \u2018 at the \u2018Witness\u2019 Building, at the ce : and St.Peter streets, in the city of Ma: John Redpath Dougtll, of Montreal.; All business oommunlentions shou\u2019d be add: + John Dougall & Son,\u2018 wnd all letters \u2018 4, * Editor should he addressod * Eduor of 1! \u201cWitness.\"' a et _.ei Le Spa te a 7 Sourate pea P dal tiv the asl sor she tea Si last wa: to = last ing.of corn pia On p00 \"à tiv! aft: me cha the ing Ho, ren BOX "]