The canadian gleaner, 5 août 1875, jeudi 5 août 1875

[" New Fancy Dress Goods.New Fancy English Prints.New Boots and Shoes of every description.Now styles vf Gentlemen's Felt Hats.New Lyles of English, Irish, Scotch, and Canadian weeds.New Patterns of Flannels for Gentlemen's Shirts, &c.1 Onse of Gentlemen's Blk.Lustre Coats, to be sold at almost cost.1 Case of Gentlemen's Linen Coats, to be sold at almost cost.1 Case of Gentlemen\u2019s Fancy Flannel Shirts.1 Case of Gentlemen's Overalls which will be sold at prices to suit the views of intending purchasers.3 Cases containing Hosiery, Gloves, Parasols, Ribbons, Flowers, Laces, Ear Rings, Brooches, Corsets, Fans, Bracelets, Fringes, Ladies\u2019 Belts, White Linen Handkerchiefs, kc.Also, a choice stock of Fresh Groceries, comprising finely flavored Japan Tews, Coffees, Bugnars, Layer Rasins, Currante, Herrings, Salmon, Lobsters, Tobaccos, Choice Family Flour, &c., &¢.Also, an extensive stock of Hardware and Crockery, &c., &c., which will be sold ate small fo nae on cost.Lt The highest price for Eggs, Butter, Wool and other merchantable produce.\u201d ! ! The above arrivale are well worthy of inspection, having been carcfully selected and purchased very cheap, which cnables us to give decided bargains to the public.WILLIAM THIRD & COMP'Y.Victoria Block, fronting Victoria Square, Huntingdon, 22d July.POST OFFICE, Huntingdon.Money Orders to the United States.A BRANGEMENTS having been completed between tho Post Office Departments of Canada and the United States, with regard to the exchange of money orders between the two countries, on and after the 2nd of August next orders will be issued and paid at this office to and from any point in the United States.Wx.Manseary, Post Master, GEORGE Q.O'NEILL, DEALER IN CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES & MEDICINES, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Fruit, Flour, Salt, Fish, Tobacco, Notiens, Garden Seeds, &c.Customers will find an extensive assoriment of the finest New Crop Teas aud, also, owing to the large increase of his Tea Business Le is now enabled to sell finer Teas at the old prices and in original packages.Produce taken in exchange for Goods.SG\" Best House in Huntingdon for Tg |\u2014Public opinion.GEO.Q.ONEILL.CANADA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.Established 1849.Assets, including Capital Stock, 24 million dollars.Cash income about $10,000 per veek, Bums assured over $11,000,000, Over $900,000 bave been paid to the representatives of deceased policy-holders since the formation of the Company.The following are among the advantages offered : Low Rates of Premium.Canadian management and Canadian investments, Undoubted sucurity.Policies non-forfeitable.Policies indisputable after 5 years in force.Policies issued on the Profit System receive three-fourths of the profits of the Company Policies purchased or loans granted thereon.Pre miums may be paid yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly, and 30 days of grace allowed for payments of all premiums.Tables of rates for the various systems of Assurance may be obtaiucd at any of the Company's offices o1 agencies.A.G.RAMSAY, Managing Director & Secretary.R.HILLS, Assistant Secretary.Office in Montreal\u2014196 St James-st.R.POWNALL, General Agent.JAMES TULLY, Agent, Huntingdon.J.BREADNER, Agent, Athelstan.NEVILLE.= = 5 wv = = = 2 ml J.2 \u2014 & a : 3 < Ee of A & Ë & = Yquwe MEN go to Nevill's for a fashionable fit.Elderly Men go to Nevill\u2019s for a comfortable suit MY WORK will bo donc so that I won't be afraid of seeing you again.Fashions always on hand.Reasonable rates.° 5 NEVILL, foreman to W.Walsh, The Crnnan NO.511.NEW ARRIVALS AT THB WEST END HOUSE Of a large and complete stock of SEASONABLE GOODS, comprising Prints, Oxford & Regatta Bhirtinge, Ready-made Shirts, Cottons, in Horrocks\u2019s and other standard makes, Linen Dress Goods, Black and colored Grenadines, Muslins, Black and colored Lustres, Tweeds, Corsets, Braided Underskints, &c.Silk, Zaneela and Cotton Umbrellas and Parasols, a great variety of Linen, Straw and Felt Hats, all cclors ; also, Wall Papers and Window Shades.SPECIALITIES Best French Kid Gloves in 1 and 2 buttons, Gents and Ladies\u2019 Windsor Scarfs and Bows, Beaded and Plain Yak and Cluny Laces, Linen Collars and Cuffs, Stamped Braiding and Embroidery Sets, Switches, Braids and Puffs, Jet Necklets, &c., &c.Particularat- tention always given to BOOTS AND SHOES, A now stock of the Best just received.Buttoned Boots Always in Stock.FRESH GROCERIES, including Beef and Pork Hams, Iemons, Dates, Figs, Cocos, Chocolate, Java Coffee, Fresh Teas, Bright Sugars, and a variety of Mackinnon's Biscuits.AG\u201d An inspection-respectfully Solicited.\u201cBa JOHN GILMORE.Huntingdon, June 4.OR SALB.\u2014That old established business stand in the Village of Huntingdon, for many years occupied hy the subscriber and since 1870 by Mr George Hall.Its central position and the prospects of a Railroad Depot being at no distant date within a short distance of the village must make it desirable to & business man who, with little taste, can make the premises the most attractive of any village property inthe Province, Besides the store which has a number of conveniencies, there is a dwelling-house and extensive outbuildings, a large garden stocked with choice fruit trees, &c.The property is one acre in superfices, fronting on Chateauguly street, being lots Nos.16 and 26 in the village block.For particulars apply to Alex.Anderson, Esq., Val- leyfisld ; Andrew Somerville, Esq., Registrar, Hunt- ingdon, or to the subscriber on the premises.JOHN MORRISON, C.C.C.Huntingdon, July 29.HBESE,\u2014Public notice is hereby given that Checse at the Huntingdon Factory will from this date be sold at 11 cents per B until further notice.Wu.Hassan, jr., Secretary.The French clerical papers continue to speculate on the floods, and do not hesitate to explain their cause.Tho Gazette de Nimes is especially ingenious.It appears that the Municipal Council of Toulouse re cently refused to erect a satue to \u201cthe glorious and miraculous shepherdess of Pibrac,\u201d and one of the councillors said, \u201cWe prefer a fountain.\u201d Whereupon, the Gazette do Nimes now remarks: \u201cGod has fulfilled the wish of these honorable councillors and sent a fountain to the capital of Languedoc which they little expected.\u201d The Opinione Nationale has an account of a double oxecution that took place recont- ly at Barcelona.A maid servant named Georgia Foix, aided by her lover, Victoriano Urcieta, murdered her master who had mado a will in her favor.The judicial investigation and trial lasted no less than three years, and resulted in the condemnation of both the accused, who, according to the custom, wcre taken on the evening which preceeded the execution to a chapel, to remain there until the next morning.There the two convicts were only separated by a curtain, and the woman uttered such loud cries during the night that her accomplice had several times to impose silence on her.Tho most distinguished ladies of the locality attended the woman to offer their consolations.The man was surrounded by monks.During all that time the boys of tho choir, clad in red, yellow, or blue, from head to foot, went through the streets, a salver in one hand and a bell in the other, asking for alms to meet the wants of the condemned, on earth and in heaven ; that is to say, for the cost of their interment and the performance of masses for their souls.The execution by the garrote took place out: side one of the gates of the city, in a plain, to which the victims were conducted by a long procession of penitents.Q.F.RR.S.ATHELSTAN SASH, DOOR, AND BLIND FACTORY.We, the undersigned, would call the attention of BUILDERS and CONTRACTORS to our large stock of Sashes, Doors and Blinds, together with all kinds of House Finishings, which we have made during last Winter and now on hand to suit purchasers; at our Factory, Athelstan.A complete assortment of the following wood work : ARCHITRAVES, SKIRTINGS, MOULDINGS, TURNED WORK, AND BRACKETS.All kinds of Picture Frame Mouldings.SPEOIAL ATTENTION PAID TO OUSTOM WORK TONGUING, GROOVING, PLANING, FRET SAWING AND TURNING.Call and examine our new improved and cheap WINDOW BLINDS, of which we havo a large stock on hand ready to put together to suit intending purchasers.All kinds of lumber for sale.Lumber taken in trade, delivered at Athelstan.All our work is made by first-class machinery, experienced workmen, and the material used is of the Best Ottawa Pine and thoroughly kiln dried.sa CHARGES MODERATE, GIVE US A CALL.Ba Address all communications to the Head Office in HUNTINGDON, HUNTINGDON AGRIOULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKS.\u2018Wa desire to return our sincere thanks to our many friends and customers for the very liberal patronage we have received from them in the past, and in order to retain a continuanco of that support which has been so largely accorded to us, we beg to assure them that it will be our earncst endeavor to spare no pains or expense to produce the most approved Yr snd Implements which for excellence of materials, nship, style and finish, will be unsurpassed any in the Dominion.We are building, for the coming searon, à large number of Machines and Implements, and in their con- \u201ctruction are added all the latest improvements, Number 2 Buckeye Mower \u2019 New Model Iron Mower DODGE & STEVENSON'S COMBINED MOWER & REAPER ITHACA HAY RAKES CORN HOES TAYLOR HAY RAKES CULTIVATORS TWO AND THREE HORSE POWER THRESHING MACHINES Circular Saws, Straw Cutters, Wheel Barrows, Waggon Jacks, Dog Power Churn Castings, Road Scrapers, Plows, We have also on hand Under Oven Cook Stoves, Elevated Oven Cook Stoves, Double and Single Stoves, of Caldron Kettles, a full assortment of Pots, Coolers, Spid Bozes and Potatoe Shovels, All kinds of Mill, Plow, and promptly RUNTINGDON, MAY:13rw, 1075.and other kinds ollowwnre.Also, Waggon ve Castings.All kinds of Job Work.Repairs LUMBER AND OLD METAL TAKEN IN EXCHANGE.BO YD & CO.Proprietors, Huntingdon, Q.I PREPAID BY PUBLISHER.b On Monday, the 5th ult., sxys the Fon\u201d \u2026.| on Pio Nono held a long and fatiguing , Conasistory, after which be gave thirty dis | tinot audiences, and yot at the close of the day bis lightness of step and conversational - vivacity were somothing remarkable.With.| HUNTINGDON, Q., THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1875 A a \u2014\u2014 $1.50 A-YEAR.SEVENTEEN YFARS WITH SAVAGES.SypNEyY, Australia, June 5, 1875.\u2014 The following sketch of the history of Narcisse Pelletier, who was rescued after seventeon yoars' rosidence with a savage tribe, was drawn up from his statoment by Lieut.Ottley, R.E., a passenger on board the steamer Brisbane, and published in the Sydney papors :\u2014 A FRENCH BOY'S FATE.Narcisse Pierre Pelletier (or Peitior,) the son of a shoemaker of St Giles, near Bordeaux, occupied in 1858 the post of cabin- boy in tho sbip St Paul, of Bordeaux, during a voyage from China to Australia, whither sho was conveying sothe 350 Chincse immigrants.One moonlcss night tho ship struck on a reef in the Louislade group of islands, and soon becamo a total wreck.Tho captain, crew, and immigrants, however, reached an island in safety, some in boats and others along the reef.One of the three boats was damaged on the rocks, and, the remaining two eing quite inadequate to convey all hands to any other land, it bo- came evident that the crow, if they wished to save themselves, must leave the Chinese to shift for themselves.AMONG THE BLACKS.Accordingly the Europeans mado for the neighboring islands, where, however, thoy wore attacked by the blacks and forced to retire, leaving behind them in the hands of the savages three men\u2014the second officer, a sailor, and an approntice.During this attack, Narcisse roceived a violent blow on the head from a stone, but managed to reach the boat.Much as the crew dreaded the Chinese, they dreaded thosavages more, and accordingly returnod to the island which had first afforded them refuge.Once more in comparative security, thoir former fears returned, and they held a consultation as to what should bo done, it being finally decided to embark in silonce at dead of night when all the Chinese should be asleep.AT SEA AGAIN, Narcisse, overhearing what was said, followed the sailors down in the boat and om- barked with them in their new venture.It would scem that the captain told the men that he should make for a country where they would either fall in with English settlements or English vossels.The duration of the voyage is uncertain, but must have been considerable, as the distance traversed cannot have been less than 600 miles.ltscems clear, however, that the crew endured great hardships, for having no fire, they lived on flour and such uncooked birds as they could catch or knock down; and further, that for some three or four days before sighting the Australian coast their supply of fresh water ran out.The point where they landed is known as \u201cFirst Red Rocky Point,\u201d south of Cape Direction.Raging with thirst, the crew, consisting of the captain, some seven men, and Narcisso, drew the boat up on to tho beach, and searched for water.At length their search was rowarded by finding a small waterbole, but the supply proved insufficient for all, and was consumed by the men, leaving none for the poor little cabin boy, aiready half dead from hungor, thirst, and exposure, and with feet cut to pieces by the sharp coral of the reef.THEIR THIRST ASSUAGED, the captain and his men (leaving the little cabin-boy to his fate) retraced their way to their boat, and, it is belioved, ultimately reached New Caledonia.Tho conduct of these men scarcely seoms to require comment ; still it must bo remembered that the boy was, as ho himself says, \u201chalf dead,\u201d and quite unable to walk further, while probably the men were themselves too weak to carry bim, and we may, moreover, imagine that recollecting their treatment by the Louislade islanders, they were only too anxious to get safely under way again ; so that perhaps our indignation should be largely tempered with pity.It may not bo out of place to remark that it is reported that the cannibals of the Louislade islands appear to have eaten most of the Chinese two by two; in the most methodical manner, some sixteen or seventeen only having at length been rescued Ly a passing vessel.THE DYING BOY FOUND.To return, however, to Narcisse Pelletier.It appears that the blacks on tho mainland, happening to cross the track of the boat's crew, followed it up to the waterhole, and found the little dying boy.They treated him with the greatest kindness, fed him, and finally led him away to their camp.With this tribe, known in their own tongue as the \u201cMacadamas,\u201d he remained for sovon- teen years, until he was discovered and taken away, on the 11th of April lust, by the erow of tho John Bell, a pearl schooner, then lying at the Night Island.When discovered, Nurcisso was stark naked, like the rest of the tribe, bis body burned by thesun to a rich red color, and having a glazed appearance ; his breasts were adorned with two raised lines of flesh of the thickness of a pencil, while the lobe of his right ear was ornamented with a piece of wood about half an inch in diameter and four inches long.THE CUTS ON HIS BREAST, of which he is very proud, were made with pioces of broken glass bottles, the lips of the cuts being raised by a system of constant pinching during the bealing process.The sailors who brought him off are under the impression that he came willingly, and that the savages understood tbat he was being ransomed with trade.Narcisse, however, states that the sailors labored under a mis conception, and that neither did the natives wish him to go nor did he himself wish to leave.In fact, at the time, he would much rather bave returned to his tribe, but both he and the blacks wero afraid of the guns in like # bird on a rail watching everyone in a frightened way, RECLAIMED TO CIVILIZATION, Thanks, however, to tho kindness and porreroranco of Lieutenant Connor, of the loyal Navy, he was rapidly reclaimed to civilization, and now his greatest pleasure appears to bo reading a Fronch novel with which his kind instructor supplied him when shipping him in the Brisbane steamer.1lis life among the blacks is neceesarily moagro, partly because ho has etill some ditliculty in oxpressing himsolf in Freuch, and partly, fomibly, because thero is not much to lt lis life, like that of the men of his tribe, appears to havo beon principally passed in fishing and hunting, the monotony being occasionally variod by a battle with ancigh- boring tribe.One of the most extraordinary foatures in tho caso is that, although a mere boy when ho deserted, he has retained his kuowledgo of roading and writing, and can count with case up to 100.Not only can ho read print, but he ean to a groat ex- tont mako out ordinary handwriting, while during bis stay on board he has drawn somu excellent «kotchos of tho animals he had hunted\u2014sketches which, if not exactly \u201cart treasures,\u201d aro at any rato very lifelike ro- presentations of the object thoy are intended to depict.In short, Narcisse l\u2019olletior is a young man of great intelligonco and promise, and we may be permitted to hopo that he has many happy days in storo for him in his native land.To further this end a subscription was put on foot on board tho Brisbane, it being resolved that the money should be romitted to Irance through the French Consul, 10 bo there appliod as seemed best for tho furtherance of his interests.\u2014\u2014 MISCELLANEOUS.A Guimese AT Royarry.\u2014 There is a genoral movement among tho loungers in tho Park, and an unostentatious carringo with servants in red livery goos slowly hy.Thero are two Indies only in it, and thero are two little enrly-haired dogs on the seat before them.The ladies ure attired very nearly alike, in black and white striped silks, tho one in pink, the other in » blue bonnet.They are not so beautitul ns rumor would mako us believe.They are oval fuced, highbred looking women, the one whom the English call \u201cour princess\u201d being older lovking, less blooming than her sistor Dagmar.The Czarovna is like a girlish edition of hier sister, but though hor brown eyes have a deeper lustre, her cheoks a riper bloom, and her mouth and pretty chin a more piquant air, there is a sweetness, a wentle dignity, a graco about Alexandria which makes her loveliness more perfect, yot its charm impossible to describe, She leans forward as the carriage passes, hows and smiles cordially.\u201cAh,\u201d said a ludy of the Queen's household to us one evening, \u201csho is such a real princess.\u201d And this mention of royalty brings me back to a twilight hour when from a terruce on the High street of old Kensington we watched the royal family returning from Chiswick.It was a féte day ; the streots were gayly decorated, a crowd assembled in the terraced gardens, shop windows, and on the pavement.The carriages containing royalty rode by with unusual stato; outridors, in gay liveries, preceding them.First the \u201cChristians,\u201d (as we might say neo Princess Helena,) a fair, placid-looking young woman, in a white tullo hat, and a middle-aged, soldierly man in uniform; thon a \u201ctrap,\u201d driven tandem Ly a handsome young man, with a full brown beard, a rose-bud in his buttonholo, a gay debonair manner ( ¢ the Duke\u2019 he is called, just as his elder brother is always \u201cthe Prince ;\u201d) and then a socond park carriage, with a bonny young Scotch chicftain in Highland dress, and a very pretty, pale, brown-haired young woman in a pink dress, with some sprays of white blossoms, gathered doubtless at the fete, in her hands.A shout goes up as thoy difve by, tho good-looking young Highlander doffing his Scotch cap airily, tho young Princ.css, with tho wistful eyos, smiling gently.These are tho Lornes, about whoso domestic life rumor is ever busy.But it is said on good authority they are fairly well content -[ with ther somewhat unequal marriage.The Princess is very intellectual and accomplished, and is by far the handsomest of the Qucen\u2019s daughters.Her husband has many friends ; he is young, and has a fine disposition, and, after all, his family is near enough to the throne to silence contemptuous gossip.Just as the patience of the crowd is giving out there goes up a cry of \u201cThe prince.\u201d Ah! what a passport to favor is this divine right of Kings and Princes! When those peoplo say «The Prince,\u201d it is with an air of \u201cLong live the King!\u201d More comes the Marlborough House liveries, and such a carriage-load of royalty ; the Princess of Wales and her sister Dagmar, their white dresses and pink hats looking protty in the evening light; opposite thom the Prince of Wales, who, in spite of rumor and increasing weight, is yet fine-looking, and the tall, broad.shouldered, good-looking Czarevitch; and thon comes a last carriage, out of which little, sleepy- looking children in brown holland closks and straw bats, with flattering whito ribbons, appear to be rolling.Thero are, in truth.three of them upon one seat, and posite, a atout, gracious-looking lady, of whom wo remember chiefly her brilliant smile and pleasent salutation.Her husband, handsomer in bis dark, grand way than any of the Guelphs, sits before ber.\u201cThose are the Tecks,\u201d says somebody earnestly; \u201cthoy are so kind and simple.\u201d Their homo is in Kensington Palace, where the Queen was born, where she beld her first council.The Duke of Cambridge, the Queen's uncle, rides by unattended in a severely simple way.It! the boat.He says that for a long time\u2014a vory long time\u2014after his desertion by the captain, his thoughts continually reverted to LA BELLE FRANCE, | and to his father, mother, and little brothers; : _} but that, as years rolled on, theso faded from \u2018This memory, and he becamo thoroughly identified with the blacks.For the first fortnight of his stay in Somerset he is de- is said that thesimplicity of the \u2018Cambridges\u2019 annoys her Majesty immensely.The old\u2019 Duke dotests formality, He is greatly beloved by all the people, especially tho army, | which ho commands.And thus royalty | rides by in a gor cavalcade.The bunting: in the crook igh strect waves airily in\u2019 the evening light; the crowd slowly dis persos ; to American eyes and ears it is so scribed ns restless and uneasy, and as sitting | \u2014 er \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 strange and like a fairy tale! A princess with a gracious domeanor, with dark oyos, and a swoet, sad smile ; a prince all docor- ations and good nature ; outriders, heralds, | horsemen ; a vod brick palace finshed with; sunact lights in the distance, with gardens like n stago effect beyond ; is ft really today, or ix it long ago, whon Prince Charming woood his Indy fair ovor the ses ; when princessos pricked their fingers on a spin- ning-wheel and slopt a hundred youtra ?À CAT AssAuLTKD ny RoBins.\u2014Tho Troy Times mentions an interesting incidont ! of robius protecting their young.It| says: \u201cWhilo a short distanco from tho city yesterday wo hoard robins chirping in tho leafy top of a tall elm.A large cat from a neighboring house stood under the treo guring aloft and watching the feathered songnters as thoy flitted hithor and thither.Hor eyo was enger and gamey, and a) ovideutly longed for some tender bird's mont.The robins, it appoars, had a nest of young ones, and tho mother bird, obsurving tho crouching attitude of the cat far below, way filled with anxiety for hor littlo once.She sot up a loud chattering ory, and for a moment both paront birds flow about the nest wildly and noisily.Finally, they swopt down straight toward the cat, their fluttering wings and impotuosity driving her away on a run.As sho neared tho gatoway of & house and was about to onter, ong of tho robins swoopod down and gave the cat a sharp clip on the back with its bonk.The cat rushed into tho doorway, and up tho robins rose and sought the nost of tho brood.\u201d Tho Scoteh herring fishing is reported to bo a failure this season.Tho catch does not oxceod 36,000 crans, Last year tho take was 62,000 and in 1870 1::0,000 crane.Tho failure ix attributed to unfavorablo wonther and the voracity of dog-fish.The number of deaths in the English minos last your averaged one to ovory 510 persons employed, and nearly all were at- tributod to carolessncss.Tho total number of persons omployed was 538,929.Tho religious societies in London received last your in the aggregate, voluntary subscriptions from the public amounting to not less than $10,000,000.Tho British and Foreign Bible Society alone received 81,100,310, One of the notable mon of lngland, who has fought his way from Leggary to u baronotey, is Sir John Crossley, the great carpet manufacturer, who, during a political speech delivered lately in Halifax, publicly reforrod to tho fact that his mother was a sorvant-girl on small wages.The story, as told, is that this girl was receiving £6 a year, but that, being vary tbrifty, she bad managed to rave up a little fortune amounting in all to £40.Mr Crossley, who married her, had nothing at all.On the £40 they sot up a shop in which various useful things wero sold, the businers being entirely conducted by the wife.llaving gained more money by this means the business wns gradually onlarged, until finally they resolved to restrict it to a special article\u2014carpota.Next followed the project of a single loom ; the ono loom multiplied itself to a roomful.Thon thoy bought tho patent of tho American Bigelow loom, and this seems to have caused their business to onlargo vor rapidly.The first poor little building wit! which thoy bogan\u2014-n picture of it is kept in a frame-expanded liko & magical tree, and now their ostablishmonts have spread into town of their own, tho buildings being connected by high bridges passing above the streets.They employ 5,000 hands, and their machinery is turned by seven steam 3,000 horses.A privato letter received July 16 in Shef- fiold, from ono of the crow of the iron ship (lanco, of London, which arrived in the Thames from Adelaide on July 15, give in- telligonco of à terrible event which recently occurred at son.Onthe 27th uit.the Glanco passed an out-bourl vessel, bearing the name of Jessie Osborne, and was hailed by the Captain of the lattor ship, who reported that ono of his crow had gone mad ; that for aloft, and that nothing could induce him to roturn on deck, Tho Captain further re- with a large chisel, with which ho was cutting the ropes, and that the boatswain had tried to bring him down.The maniac, howorver, throw a block at the bontswain, knocking him on the deck and breaking his arm and leg.As a matter of safety to his vessol and crew, the Captain of the Jeasio Osborne considered (hat it was necessary to shoot tho maniac, and after consultation that course was decidod upon, The crew and officers of the (Glance wero requested to bo present as witnesses, and in their presonce tho man was shot with a revo.'ver.In consequence of tho way in which he moved about the rigging, throe shots bad dead on thu deck, and bis body w 9 evontu- ally thrown overboard, London, July 23.\u2014Tho (icneral Prosby- terian Council to-da the Presbyterian Churches throughout the world.The terms of the alliance ave that any church organized on Presbyterian principles, holding the authority of the Scriptures in mattors of faith and morals, and whose creed harmonizes with the consensus of the Reformed Confessions, is oligible.The Council will meet triennially.The constituency of the Council will consist of minis ters and ruling elders, appointed the churches forming the Alliance.The Council is authorized to admit Churches to the Alliance and ontertain and consider topics ithe Presbyterian community, suggested by the Churches.\u2018The objects of the Council embraco the gencral interests of especially where it is wealc or persecu The Council will entertain all subjects connected with the work of evangelization and will dovote itself to combining Church energies in great citios and destitute districts, and to trainin ministers, It will use the and co portage, and will devise the method of ol nh infidelity and Romanism.engines, reprosenting an aggregate power of five days tho maniac had stationed himself ported that the madman had armed himself to be fired beforo be was fatally injured.He fell formed an alliance or out attributing this bodily and.mental vigor (aa the Orservatore Romano does) to a miracle, the phenomenon is interesting enough to deserve comment.Pio Nono's yeicians have recently prescribed him aily bathe of sulphur water brought all the way from Civita Vecchia for the purpose.A bathing contrivance something like a diminutive reservoir in size has boon constructed for him, and into this be dos- cends by a little staircaso and thon takes bis seat in a chair, while the water gradually riscs around bim.Thus he sits for half an hour.* * # On coming out of this artificial sulphur spring\u2014or buli came, as the Italiane call it\u2014the Pope is served witir some strong soup in which a capon has been boiled down, and with this he takes n glass of Johannisberg cabinot or Romance Conti.Under this treatment ho braves the excossive heat with comparative impunity, and can often disponse with his staff in walking.Agents from Now Zealand, for the pur- chaso of honvy cart-horses in Great Britain, aro doing a largo business.Attack oN A Terris Strasmkr.\u2014Tho Hong Kong Daily l\u2019rees of June 2 has the following : \u201cWa havo to record another dastardly attack by Chinese pirates upon » British stoamor.Mesara Laprailes ateamer Douglas has been attacked at Foochow and the Custom-houso officer on board shot dond.From what wo have been able to learn it appears that tho Douglas reached Foochow on Wodnosday, the 26th of May, and anchored in the river near the Pagoda anchorage.A Custom-houso officor named Blacklock came on board as usual, for night duty, shortly after dark.The crew apont the ovoning playing cards, and all rotired about 10 o'clock oxcopt Mr Brot, chiof ofi- corof the Namoa, who was on sick lonvo on board, and who remained with the Customhouse officer for somo time lator.Whon Mr Brett turnod in, the Custom-houso officer askod him for his revolver, saying that ho expected a visit from smugglors in tho courso of tho night.It appears that his suppdsitions wore formed from tho fact that the Kwangtung had a quantity of opinm taken from hor those dosporaiioos, HOMO of whom were detected in tho act.Tho consequence was thoy vowed vengeance against all the Custom-houso officors and determined to have their rovengo at tho cor- lient opportunity.Mr Blacklock's appre- honsions turned out to bo correct.At oxactly 1 o'clock in the morning a smug- glors boat came nlonguide the Douglas, with a large numbor of men on board.Mr Blacklock observed them and at onco order- od them off, fiving a shot ovor tho boat.They refused to go and attompted to climb up tho ship'uside.Ile then discharged thie three remaining chambers of his rovolver in such close quartera to thom that some of tho shots must have takon offect.He wan » leaning ovor tho rail at the time, and no sooner was his revolver empty than tho piratos opened fire on him, and ho roceived no less than twenty-five slugs in the breast, and foll on tho dock, expiring almost im.modiatoly.The crow, hearing the firing, at once rushed out with their revolvors, and n few shota woro fired, but the pirates alunk Away on tnoir apponrance.Thore was only ono snake-bont alongsido, but two others wore soon in the immodiato vicinity ; no had the first boon succossful in their attack thero is no saying what the result might havo been.Tho crew of the Douglas heard next day that four of the smugglers in the boat had beon killed by the shots from tho steamer, and that several of them had been wounded.Mr Craigforth, the Chiof Engin- cor of the Douglas, had n narrow oncape, for he rushed on deck just as the volloy hu! been fired which was so fatal to tho Customhouse officor.Ax soon as the miscreants had cleared off the doctor of her Majesty's gun-boat Hornet was sent for, and at onco pronounced Mr Blacklock quite dead,\u201d A rose mania has sprung up in Jupan, ro- placing that for pigs and rabbita.Tho Russian World states that the Minister of public instruction intonds to make the English language a subject of compulsory study in the gymnasiums for young ladies.A plaguo of rats is doing much harm on tho Coffee estates of sevoral districts of Coy- lon, and numerous complaints from planters appear in the Colombo papers.Parents of children in the habit of straying from home should adopt the Persian system of attaching a label with their name and address to their girdles, These labels aro supplied at the local Police stations.The Opinione, of Florence, announces tho finding, at Pompeii, of somo carbonized tablets of wood with written charactors on thom.Tho importance of the discovery was considered such that orders have been sent by telograph to exercise the greatest care in preserving thom.Some remarkablo remains havo beon un- carthed by workmen culting limestone from the Goldmire Cliffs in England.They found in tbe froestone some masonry forming a hollow, nine feot in dismotor and five fect high, containing human and animal bones.Five feet of soil and an elm, thirty foet high, covored the masonry.It in conjectured that this is tho kiln used by the monks at tho building of Furnoss Abbey, 700 years ago.Tho Prince of Wales, wha is owner of an oatate in Aberdeenshire, has commenced an action against Mr Gordon, proprietor of Abergeldie, in reference to the boundaries of their lands.; The North British Agricultarist records that a fine Ayrshire cow belong to Mr Allan G.Ba/rd, farmer, Cowslip, Stewarton, Ayr shire, is n'eéping up tbe repatation of her breed for m.king qualities.Having had her milk weigh.the otber day, it was found to weigh 70 .™ nett as the gathering of 24 hours without a.\"Vthisg beyond her usual food.The Honolulu Gasette of Ju.™® 30 hyo A gentleman, who bas just returned 11.opte a five of Kilauea, informs us that it pow pre, & one view, having (bree active lakes, tbe me and lying between the north and south lakes, 4 nearly a large 8s either of them.There is tin.peculiarity about this third lake, thet the lava ia it bas constantly a circular motion, like a whirlpool.There was also a stream flowing out from the crater mto the basin, and on the 17th of June it formed a beautiful cascade with twelve or fifteen fect fall, then flowed vader core isto the depressed portion.Although not ususually active, it bes ring June presented some of those variations which make the mght attractire even te those who have witnemed 11 bofecs.\u201d an.ee DRE es re cae Atm po en. re rt TEE lanary = © withont \u201c THE CANADIAN GLEANER is publish.mit the truth of one of the contradictories.od every Thursday at noon.Subscription, (Is that of which we can form no correct con- $1.50 a-year in advance, postage free.Single four cents each.One dollar pays ception true?Then there must Lo a realm where thoughts that are true can be grasped, for eight months\u2019 subscription, two dollars for be they never so great and, to us, incom.à year and four months.Advertisements are prebensible.\u201d.seven conts per line for the first © nsortion and three cents for each subsequent fasartion.Advertisements of Farms for Sale, if not over 10 lines, are inserted throo times for 81.No advertisement insorted for loss | than fifty cents Ï A .\u201c3 | Ohe Qanadian Gleaney.| ER.HUNTINGDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1875.| MANITOBA is again in misfortune, the | grasshoppers having passed over tho greater part of it and destroyed the grain crops.Fears are entertained of famine during the, coming winter, and the aid of tho Dominion | Government is invoked.As to the roport of a rising in the Saskatchewan territory there seems to be little doubt now bat that it was an exaggeration, and that the Indians bave no band in it.It is ono of the penal-, ties of Canada\u2019s ambition in annexing the\u2019 North-West that there will not, for years to \u2018 come, be any cessation to thedemands upon its purse or of collisions in ruling a savage and a semi-savage people.\u2018 Last November a Philadelphia priest, | Gerdemann, eloped with the lady organist of his church, whom he married.On, Wednesday he lectured in Philadelphia on his career as a priest, and his remarks are | printed at great length Ly most papers.While there is doubtless much truth in his statements there is also obviously much exaggeration, if not falsehood, and it scems the fairer course to us not to reprint what he said\u2014at least until substantiated by others.; To-xorrow (Friday) the centenary of the birth of Dan O'Connell will bo celebrated in most cities where English is spoken.In Ireland the mode of celebration has givon rise to much strife.The Mayor of Dublin, | at the instigation ot Cardinal Cullen, has invited all the prominent Ultramontanes within reach, including the German bishops whom Bismarck imprisoned for trying to: stir up rebellion.At the same time the, leading Home Rulers, such as Butt, are ignor- | ed.\u2018The row, as reported by the late Eng- | lish papers, is a very pretty one, and was | likely to end in rival celebrations.On this aide of tho Atlantic a similar sectarian complexion has been given the celebrations, at which some Irish Protestants complain.For our part we do not seo how an earnest Protestant should want to do honor to the memory of a sower of sedition.While speaking of celebrations and Ireland we may remark that the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne was never kept in better style than on last Twelftb.All over Ulster the moetings were immense, orderly, and enthusiastic.In the West of Scotland the demonstrations were on so gigantic a scale that hostile papers complain that the Lanarkshire towns will soon be no better, in this regard, tban tbe Black North.Taz Canadian Methodist Magazine, a very creditable monthly published at Toronto, in its last number contains an article by the Rev.Mr Roy entitled Lessons from Language.With his usual preciseness of statement and fine analytic skill Mr Roy points out how language bears the impress of the varying states of human thought and life, and gives numerous examples culled from his extensive reading.Were it not that the subject is somewhat too recondite for a country newspaper we would gladly transfer the entire article to our columns, but in default of that give a few detached sentences: In all nature the prescnt bears the impress of the past.The trained eye of the American Indian can trace the marks of moccasined feet on fallen leaf or moss covered log.The sandstone tells the force of showers that fell, and even the direction of winds that blew, in those old days of which the poet sings: 40 earth, what changes hast thou seen! There, where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central ses.\u201d Man utters a word: it is caught up by another, or is penned upon some page; and the irrevocable messenger goes on for ever.On its brow it bears the image of him who made it; and, to all coming time, its silent voice laims his character.\u201cBy thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.\u201d Language adds to the testimony of other witnesses a confirmation of great truths concerning human lifs.& the ition § \u201c stops not with the recognition in himself of a spiritaal and a moral element ; be feels that he is only on the verge of a world into which the material enters not,\u2014 a world, not merely of that intellectual character which we find combined with aub- matter around us, but à higher realm This, too, words teach us.We the meanings of which we can- act grasp, while we still feel that they represent realities; and, in our effort to form uate conceptions of those realities je, as in à nightmare, to accom- what we feel can done, but which our present limitations aboolutely forbid us Mie\u201d maggest Chooghis too vaste our vast our minds to .ti is impossible, for instance, to conceive an ute commence- pes or as absolute fermination of me.impossible concoive Time a.or end.The idea is too opinions \u201cChristianity is not only the trainod dis- : decp, narrow river pouring its dark tide | through procipitous rocks\u2014a river walled in dusty garret or lightod gallery: it is the bY overhanging cliffs of great height.; The angel of the spring-time, bencath the troad- ; Saguenay is not such a river, and yet it has , ling ot whose feet start forth the crocus and not disappointed me.ROBERT SELLAR, Proprietor.the daisy, and at whose coming winter hides ciple of art, who recognizos the limning of his master on canvas and panel and wall, in itself, the brown hills clothe themselves | with tho young grass, and the bare branches | put on their robes of varied green.The .different way, left a deeper impression upon word \u201cself-sufficient,\u201d which was once a my mind than I bad expected it would.terra of honor, it has banished from the, realms of goodness, because tho warm heart of God was not in it.«\u201cDarbarian,\u201d it.has almost blotted out of use, because it kept men from recognizing their kinship.\u201cNot till that word barbarian was struck out of the dictionary of mankind, and replaced by brother, can wo look oven for the first bo- ginnings of our science.This change was effected by Christianity.\u201d «