Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1889 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Seattle is already hard at work rebuilding. The losses aggregate $15,000,<KIO. j Fire swept the business portion of Marshalltown, lowa. Thursday, destroying forty-one buildings and~e®iMinr a ioes of $150,000. -* . The Mansfield Drug Co. has received a verdict for $36,800 agri nst t’ni rty-four insurance companies which- refused to acknowledge their claim. Ross Schoonover, a wealthy farmer living near Kewanee, 111., was swindled out of $3,010, Wednesday, by the usual game of wanting to buy a farm. Near Austin, Tex., a man refused to be tried before a colored justice. The result was a row, in which six persons were killed and a number wounded. The steamers North Star and Charles J. Sheffield came into collision near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Monday. The Sheffield sunk,causing a loss of $125,000. A buggy containing two men and two boys was run down at Canton, Ohio, Wednesday, by a train on the P.. Ft W. A C. railway and ill four were killed. Nine workmen were precipitated from a poorly constructed scaffold at Chicago, Wednesday. — All of them were injured, several of them dangerously. The Boards of Agriculture of Illinois, lowa, Nebraska and Kansas have arranged to import a flock of seven African ostriches for exhibition at their respective State Fairs in September. Uniontown, Bourbon Co., Kansas, a town of 600 inhabitants, was destroyed by a flood Sunday night. Two women and four children were drowed. Streams werepverflowed in every part of the '-rate. The Democratic National Committee met at New York Wednesday, with a very large attendance of members of the committee and others. Calvin 8. Brice was elected chairman to succeed the late Hon. Wm. H.. Barnum. There was no opposition to Mr. Brice’s election. Bolton’s Mill,near Newsgo,Mich.,burned caturday morning. Aujoining it was a large boarding house where the employes lodge!. Alonzo Delaceyand Ole McLenny perished in the flames, and another man, in j amping from a window, received proabiy fatal injuries. It is thought the fire was incenuiary. Frank Sadler and Frank Rvan, the two young men who made two attempts, about a month ago, to wreck the limited vestibule train on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, pleaded guilty at’Canton, 0., Monday, and were sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary, and to pay a fine of SSOO each. A disastrous cave in occurred at Wilkesbarre, Pa., Wednesday. Mines are situated under the city, and now one of the principal thoroughfares is filled with crevices from which the gas ■escapes in huge volumes. The men in the mines bad narrow escapes- Eight hundred men are thrown out of employment. The damage to the mine is SIOO,OOO, and to property owners on the turf ace $200,000. Mrs. W. J. White has been sent to jail at Cincinnati for contempt of court. She was one of two women each of whom claimed to be the mother of the same baby. She was afraid the court would take the child away from her,and had spirited it away to prevent such a consummation. She positively refused to tell the Judge where the infant was, preferring to go to prison. The canvassing board Monday finished its work of counting the vote cast at the Moi tana constitutional election. The retuns show that thirty-eight democrats, thirty-five Republicans, one labor and one Independent were elected. Both the Labor and Independent men have affiliated with the Democrats, and the latter count on their help on ail party questions. A dispatch from South Oklahoma, I. T., eays: Policeman Hart went to the Mayor’s office, Saturday afternoon and began abusing the Mavor. He was locked up by Marshal McKee and Policeman Howard after a desperate resistance. When McKee and Howard returned to the Mayor’s office, Policeman Mattox, a friend of Hart, opened fire on them with a Winchester. McKee was slightly wounded in the abdomen and Howard seriously in the hips. After he was shot, Howard shot Mattox through ths lungs, fatally wounding him. A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo., says: Last Thursday two children of Edward Richus, a farmer of Rozer, Mo., a small village fiftv miles south of Kansas City, on the Kansas line, went to a creek about a mile from home to fish. Upon their failing to return at night, searching parties were organized, and last Friday evening their bones were found near a ledge of rocks that had long been known as a wolves’ den. A band of timber wolves have used this section for years, and it is thought the children were killed and eaten by the animals. The boys were aged ten and twelve years. The United States Grand Jury, at Memphis, which has been investigating the manner in which the elections in the Tenth (Tenn.) congressional district have been conducted during the past tew years, submitted its report to the « urt, Saturday. Indictments were returned against nearly all the judges and clerks, some two hundred in number, of the last election of that congressional -district. The particular offense for which most of these men are indicted is for not returning the poll list and count to the clerks of the county and Circuit Courts es their respective' counties as the law'requlres. The balance of them are indicted for taking election books away from the polling places to conduct the count. FOREIGN. The French Senate has advised the immediate prosecution of Boulanger. Three hundred and fifty-four thousand persons visited the Paris Exposition. Of this number 36,000 made the ascent qf the Eiffel Tower. The Grand Duke Paul, Of Russia. Sunday, returned to and entered fit. Petersburg in state with his betrothed. Princess Alexandra, of Greece. Anti-ministerial riots occurred at Brussels aid Gent and at Liege, Tuesday. Many of the rioters were wounded in conflicts with the police. A Methodist Sunday school excursion traid with 1,200 people on board was wrecked near Avnough, Ireland,

Wednesday. Fifty persons were Ikilled and many injured. All thecommissioners to the Samoan conference have signed the agreement, and it only needs the signatures of the United States government to be in force. It is conceded the German government was completely knocked out. The Russian army will soon be provided with breech loading rifles which will carry a distance of 6.000 feet. Noiseless powder will also be used in future by the army. These* improvements in the arming of the troops involve immense expenditures. The King of Portugal and numerous other royalties arrived at Dresden, Monday, to attend the octo-centenary fetes. Parliament Monday presented to the King a gift of $750,000 in behalf of the people, as a token of love and loyalty. The money will be used to renovate the palace. The Russ'an and German ministers atBerne have made a format chmplaintto Dr. Droze, the Swiss Minister of Foreign Affaire, that Switzerland, in her lenient treatment of Socialists and Anarchists, had abused the right of neutrality which had been conceded to her, and had failed to fulfil the duties connected with that right. The Catholic societies of Rome intend asking the municipality for permission to erect a monument to the “Apostle of Rome,” St. Philip Neriv, founder of the Society of the Orations, of which Cardinal Newman is a member. This is intended as a protest against the recent erection of a monument in honor of the great free thinker, Giordano Bruno. A letter received from Ururi, on the southeastern shire of the Victoria Nyanza, dated Dec. 2, reports the arrival there of Henry M. Stanley with a large number of invalid members of his force. 3he letter eaid that Stanley had sustained heavy loses, a large number of his men having died from disease and famine. The explorer had rejoined and left Emin Pasha at Unyara, on the northwestern shore of the* lake. The steamer Alene, from Kingston, Jamaica, June 6, arrived at New York Thursday morning, and brings intelligence substantiating the London cable reports of Hippolyte’s victory and Legitime’s defeat. Chief Officer Williams, of the Alene, said that Legitime had sought the protection of the American consul at Port au-Prince. Hippolyte’s officers had entered Port-au-Prince and taken possession of the town. The victorious warrior, however, Mr. Willirms said, was not popular with the people generally, and could probably never be President of the black republic by the vote of the inhabitants. A man named Marriann, Legitime’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, or an ex-President of the republic,‘whose name Mr. Williams could not recall, would doubtless appear as the next candidate for the presidency of Hayti.

A TERRIBLE DISASTER.

An Excursion Train Loaded Wl!h Sunday. School Children Wrecked Near Dublin, Ireland—Nearly a Hundred Were frightfully Mangled. A train containing an excursion party from Armagh, Ireland, was wrecked near that place, Wednesday afternobn. The train contained 1.200 persons, com posed of Methodist Sunday School scholars, their teachers and ’ relatives. They were going on an excursion to Warren Point. Dispatches from Armagh show that the accident resulted in a frightful loss of life. Seventy bodies have been taken from the wreck and there are others buried under the debris. W arren Point, the place where the party was bound, is a watering place at the mouth of the Newry river in county Down. The excursion party left Armagh on two trains. The accident occurred at a point wherelhe trains had to ascend a grade on a bank fifty feet high. The first train ascended the grade without trouble. The second section attempted the ascent, but the weight of the train proved tco great for the engine. Several cars were detached and allowed to run back toward the level track, but before they reached it they came in collision with an ordinary train from Armagh, which was proceeding at a good rate of speed. The excursion cars were completely wrecked. The scene which ensued was heartrending. Hosts of volunteers were so on at band and the dead and wound* ed were taken fron the wreck and carried d■ wn the bank. Medical aid was called and a special train from Belfast brought to the scene twenty surgeons from that city and a number of medical men from other places between Belfast and Armagh. The disaster is unparalled in the railroad history of Ireland. The accident nas cast a gloom over Armagh. All the shops were closed and the people are m general mourning. The engineer, fireman and guard of tne Lain and the traffic manager’s clerk were summoned before a magistrate, and were remanded on the charge of being responsible for the accident. The brake power of the engine of the third train was inadequate. While the second train was ascending the incline, the engineer remarked to tbe fireman: “I am afraid we can’t do it” The following train was commencing the ascent, when the engineer saw the runaway cars. Shutting off the steam and reversing the lever, the engineer and fireman jumped from tbe engine, shouting to the passengeis to do likewise. The latter, howevei, not hearing the cries did not obev. No one was injured on that train. The engine was hurled sixty feet down an embankment The carriage that ran into the engine was shattered to splinters, and fragments of dress, umbrellas, etc-, scattered hundreds of yards. A dozen corpses were found beneath the engine in a parboiled condition. Some of the occupants of the runaway cars tried to etcape, but the doors were lucked. The front part of the train started back in pursuit of the runaway cars and the passengers saw the collision st a distance of 300 yards. A car driver named Hughes, who visited the scene of the disaster, was so horrified at the sight that he died on the spot His corpse was taken to Armagh, in his own cart. ‘

Obituary.

Major Wm. 8. Collier, retired,at Washington. Gen? Wm. L Withers, the noted horse brooder, at Lexington, Ky. Father Patrick J. K. Donohoe, one of the oldest priests in America, at Milwaukee.

MAMMA'S BOY

START FOUR BOY IN THE PATHWAY OF BIGHT, And In the End He Will Be Where fl® Ought to Be—The Destinies of Empires Are in the Mother's Hands.

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Subject: “People Who Have Lost Their Way.” Text* Genesis xxi., 9. He said: I learn from this Oriental Scene, in the first place, what a sad thing it ia wrtifexi too proud , for their business. Hagar was an assistant in that household, bnt she wanted to rule there. She ridiculed and jeered until her son Ishmael got the same tricks. She dashed out her own happiness and threw Sarah into a great fret; and if she had stayed much longer in that household she would have upset calm Abraham’s equilibrium. My friends, one half of the trouble in the world to-day comes from the fact that people do not know, their place, or finding their place; would not stay in it. When we come into the world there is always a place ready for us. A place for Abraham. A place for Sarah. A place for Hagar. A place for Ishmael. A place for you and a place for me. Our first duty is to find our sphere; our second is to keep it. We may be bom in a sphere far off from the one for which God finally intends us. Sextus V. was born on the low ground, and was a swine herdenGod called him up to wave a scepter. Ferguson spent his early days in looking after the sheep; God called him up to look after stars, and be a shepherd watching the flocks of light on the hillsides of heaven. Hogarth by engraving pewter pots; God raised him to stand in the enchanted realm of a painter. The shoemaker’s bench held oioorhfleld for a little while, but God called him to sit in the chair of a philosopher and a Christian scholar. The soap boiler of London could not keep his son in that business, for God had decided that Hawley was to be one of the greatest astronomers of England. On the other hand, we may be born in a sphere a little higher that for which God intends us. We may be bom in a castle, and play in a costly conservatory, and feed high brpd pointers, and angle for gold fish in artificial ponds, and be familiar with Princes; yet God may have fitted us for a carpenter’s shop, or a "dentist’s forceps, or a weaver’s shuttle, or a blacksmith’s forge. The great thing is to find just the the sphere for wnich God intended us, and then to occupy that sphere, and occupy it forever. Here is a man God fashioned to make a plow. There is a man God fashioned to make a constitution. The man who makes the plow is just as honorable as the man who makes the constitution, provided he makes the plow as good as the other man makes the constitution. There is a woman who was made to fashion a robe, and yonder is one intended to be a Queen and wear it. It seems to me that in the one case as in the other, God appoints the sphere; and the needle is just as respectable in His sight as the scepter. Ido not know but that the world would long ago have been saved in some of the men out of the ministry were in it, and some of those who are in it were out of it. I really think that one-half of the world may be divided into two-quarters—those who have not found their sphere, and those who, having found it, are not willing to stay there. How many are struggling for a position a little higher than that for which God intended them. The bondswoman wants to be mistress. Hagar keeps crowding Sarah. The small wheel of a watch, which beautifully went treading its golden pathway, wants to be the balance wheel, and the sparrow, with chagrin, droops into the brook, because it cannot, like the eagle, cut a circle under the sun. In the Lord’s army we all want to be brigadiergenerals. The eloop says: “More mast, more connage, more canvas. O, that I were a topsail schooner, or a fulbrigged, or a Ounard steamer.” And so the world is tilled with cries of discontent, because we are not willing to stay in the place where God put us and intended us to be. My friends, be not too proud to do any thing God tells you to do. For the tack of a right disposition in ibis respect the world is ttrewn with wandering Hagars and Ishmaels. God has given each one of us a work to do. You carry a scuttle of coal up that dark alley. You distribute that Christian tract. You give SIO,OOO to the missionary cause. You, for fiiceen years, sit witn chronic rheumatism, displaying the beauty of Christian submission. Whatever God calls you to, whether it win hissing or huzza; whether to walk under triumphal aich at lift the sot out of the ditch; whether it be to preach on a Pentecost, or to tell some wanderer of the street on the mercy of the Christ of Mary Magdalene; whether it be to weave a garland for a laughing child on a spring morning and call her a May Q teen, or to comb out tangle d locks of a waif of the street and cut up one of your old dresses to fit her out for the sanctuary—do jt, and do it right away. Whether it be a crown or a yoke, do not fidget. Everlasting honors upon those who do their work, and to tneir whole work, and are contented in the sphere in which God has put them, while there is only wandering, and exile, and desolation and wilderness, for discontented Hagar and Ishmael. Again: I find in this Oriental scene a i saon of sympathy with woman when /oe goes forth trudging in the desert What a great change it was for this Hagar. There was the tent and all the the surroundings of Abraham’s house, beautiful and luxurious no doubt Now the is going out into the hot sands of the desert O, what a change it was! And in our day we often see the wheel -of fortune turn. Here is some one who lived in the very bright home of her father. She had every thing possible to administer to her happiness. Plenty at the table. Music in the drawingroom. Welcome at the door. Shew led forth into life by some one who can not appreciate her. A dissipated soul comes and takes her out in the desert Iniquities blot out all the lights of that home circle. Harsh words wear out her spirits. The high hopes that shone out over the marriage altar while the ring was being set and the vows given ana the benediction pronounced have all faded with the orange blossoms, and there she is to-day, broken hearted, thinking of past ioy

sad present desolation and coming anguish. Hagar in the wilderne*! Here is a beautiful nome. You can . not think of any thing that can be added to it For years there has not been the suggestion of a single trouble. Bright and happy children fill the house with laughter and song. Books to read; pictures to look at; lounges to rest on; cup of domestic joy full and running over; dark night drops; pillow hot, pulses flutter; eyes close. And the foot whose well-known steps on the door-sill brought the whole household but at eventide, crying, “Father’s coming,” will never sound on the door-sill again. A long, deep grief plowed through all that lightness of domestic life. Paradise lost! Widowhood! Hagar in the wilderness! How- often it is We see the weak arm of woman conscripted for this battle with the rough world. Why is she going down the street in the early light of the morning, pale with exhausting work, not half slept out with the slumbers of last night,tragedies of suffering written all over her face, her lusterless eyes looking far ahead as though for the coming of some other trouble? Her parents called her Mary, or Bertha, or Agnes on the day when they held her up to the font, and the Christian minister sprinkled on the infant’s face the washings of a holy baptism. Her name is changedjnow. I hear it in shu f flejof the Worn-out shoes. I see it in the figure of the faded calico. I find it in the lineaments of the woebegone countenance. Not Mary, nor Bertha, nor Agnes, but Hagar in the wilderness. May God have mercy upon woman in her toils, her struggles, her hardships; her desolation, and may the great heart of Divine sympathy inclose her forever. Again: I find in this Oriental scene the fact that every mother leads forth tremendous destinies. You say: “That isn’t an unusual scene, a mother leading her child bv the hand.” Who is it that she is lead'iug? Ishmael, you say. Who is Ishmael? A great nation is to be founded; • nation so strong that it is to stand for thousands of years against all the armies of the world. Egypt and Asyria thunder against it; but in vain. Gaulns brings up his army,and his army is smitten. Alexander decides upon a campaign, brings up his hosts and dies. For a long while that nation monopolizes the learning of the world. It is the nation of the Arabs. Who founded it? Ishmael, the lad that Hagar led into the wilderness. She had no idea she was leading forth such destinies. Neither does any mother. You pass along the street, and see boys and girls who will yet make the earth quake with their influence. Whois that boy at Sutton Pool, Piymoutn, England, barefooted, wading down into the slush and slime, until his bare foot comes upon a piece of glass, and he holds it, bleeding and painstruck? That wound in the foot decides that he be sedentary in his life, decides that he be a student. That wound by the glass in the foot decides that he shall be John Kitto, who shall provide the best religious encyclopedia the world has ever bad provided, and, with his other writings as well, throwing a light upon the word of God such as has come from no other man in this century. Oh mother, mother, that little hand that wanders over your face may yet be lifted to hurl thunderbolts of war or drop benedictions. That little voice may blaspheme God in the grog shop, or cry “Forward!” to the Lord’s hosts, as they go out for their last victory. Mv mind to-day leaps thiity years ahead, and I see a merchant prince of New York. One stroke of his pen brings a ship out of Canton. Another stroke of his pen brings a ship into Madras. He is mighty in all the money markets of the world. ‘ Who is he? He sit? to-day beside you in the Tabernacle. My mind leaps thirty years forward from this time, and I find myself in a relief association. A great multitude of Christian women have met together for a generous purpose. There is one woman in that crowd who seems to have the confidence of all the others, and they all look up to . her for her counsel and for her prayers. Who is rhe? To-day you will find her in the Sabbath school, while the teacher tells her of that Christ who clothed the naked and fed the hungry and healed the sick. My mind leap’s forward thirty years from now, and I find myself in an African jungle; and there is a missionary of the cross addressing the natives, and their dusky countenances are irradiated With the glad tidings of great joy and salvation. Who is he? Did you not hear his voice to-day in the first song of the service? My mind leaps forward thirty years from now, and I find myself looking through the wickets of a prison. I see a face scarred with every crime. His chin on his open palm, his elbow on his knee—a picture of despair. As I open the wicket he starts, and I hear his chain clank. The jail keeper tells me that he has been in there now three times. First for theft, then for arson, now for murder. He steps upon the trap door, the rope is fastened to his neck, the plank falls, his body swings into the air. hh soul swings off into eternity. Who is he, and where is he? To-day playing kite on the city commons. Mother, you are to-day hoisting a throne or forging a chain—you are kindling a star or digging a dungeon. 1 learn one more lesson from this Oriental scene, and that is that every wilderness has a well in it. Hagar and Ishmael gave up to die. Hagars heart sank within her as she heard her child crying: “Water! water! water!” “Ah,” she says, “my darling, there is no water. This is a desert” And then God’s Angel said from the cloud; “What aileth thee, Hagar?” And she looked up and saw him pointing to a well of water where she filled the bottle for the lad. Blessed be God that there is in every wilderness a well, if you only know how to find it—fountains for all these thirsty souls to-day. On that last day, on that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried: “If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.” All these other fountains you find are mere mirages of the desert. Paracelsus, yon know, spent bis time in trying to find out the elixir of life—a liquid which, if taken, would keep one perpetually young in this world, and would’change the aged back again to yonth. Of course, be was disappointed; he found not the elixir. But here I tell you to-day of the elixir of everlasting life bursting from the “Rock of Ages/’ And that drinking that water yon shall never get old, and you never will be sick, and you will never die. Ho, every one that come ye to the waters.” Ah, here ia a man who says: “1 have been looking for that fountain a great while, but can’t 1 find it.” And here is *ome ono else who says: “I believe all

you ray, bnt I have been trudging along in the wilderness and can’t find the fountain.” Do vou know the reason? I will toll you. You never looked in the right direction. “Oh,” you say, “1 have looked everywhere. 1 have looked north, south, east and west, and I haven’t found the fountain.” Why, you are not looking in the right direction at all. Look up, where Hager looked. She never would have found the fountain at all, but When she heard the voice of the angel she looked up,and she saw the finger pointing to the supply. And, oh soul, if to-day, with one earnest, intense prayer, if you would only look up to Christ he would point you down to the supply in the wilderness. "Look unto me all ye ends of the earth and be ye saved, for lam God. and there is none else.” Look! look! as Hagar looked. Yes, there is a well for every desert of bereavement. Looking over the andi. ence to-day I notice signs of mourning Have you found consolation? Oh, man bereft! oh, woman bereft!, have you found consolation? Hearse after hearse. We step from one grave hillock to another grave hillock. We follow corpses, ourselves soon to be like them. The world is in mourning for its dead. Every heart has become the sepulcher of some buried joy. But sing ve to God! Every wilderness has a Welfin it, and l come to that well to-day and I begin to draw water from that well. If you have lived in the countrv you have sometimes taken hold of the rope of the old well sweep, and you know now the bucket came up dripping with the bright, cool water," Ana I lay hold of the rope of God’s mercy to-day. and 1 begin to draw on that Gospel well'sweep, and see the buckets coming up. Thirsty soul, here is one bucket of life; come and drink of , it: “Whosoever will, let him come ana take of the water of life freely.” I pull away again at the roue, and another bucket comes up. It is this promise: “Weeping may tn Jure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” I lay hold of the rope again, and I pull away with all my strength, and the bucket comes up bright, and beautiful, and cool. Here is the promise: “Gome nnto Me all yc who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest.” The old astrologers used to cheat the people with the idea that they could tell from the position of the stars what would occur in the future, and if a cluster of stars stood in one relation that would be a prophecy of evil; if a cluster of stars stood in another relation that would be a prophecy of good. Wbat superstition! But here is a new astrology in which I put all my faith. By looking up to the Star of . Jacob, the morning star of the Redeemer, I can make this prophecy in regard to those who put their trust in Goa: “All things work together for good to those who love God.” I read it out on the sky. I read it out in the Bible. I read it out in all things: “All things work together for good to those who love God.” Do you love Him? Dave you seen the Nyetanthes? It is a beautiful flower, but it gives very little frsgrance until after sunset. Then it pours its richness on the air. And this grace of the Gospel that I commend to you this day, while it may he very sweet dnnng the day of prosperity, it pours forth its richest aroma after sun down, and it will be sun down with you and me site* while. When you come to go out < 1 this world, will it be a desert march c r will it be a fountain for your soul. Gb! come to-day to the fountain—tbe fountain open for sin and uncleanne-s. I will tel! you the whole story in two or three sentences. Pardon for all sin. Comfort for all trouble. Light for all darkness. And every wilderness has a well in it.

THE WILY RED MAN

Sitting Bull is Recovering and Has Sime, thin; toSay, A dispatch from Bismarck, Dak., say?: Couriers who arrived. Sunday, from Standing Rock report Sitting Lull, the notorious Sioux Chief, as alive and slowly growing stronger. In an interview with regard to the proposed opening of the reservation for settlement, ne said he had never signed a treaty and never would. He is as bitteriy opposed to tbe opening of the reservation now as he was a year ago. When told of the number of Indians at the lower agencies who were signing he would not believe it. He said he had Indians at the Lower Conference who reported to him, and he knew that no such number as reported had signed. He is cunning and suspicious and thinks the Commissioners are giving out the reports to influence the Indians at the Upper Agency. There is every reason to believe that the Commissioners wiU succeed in opening the reservation but they must do it without the aid or consent of Sitting Ball and his friends. When a iked if he thought he would die, Sitting Bull said at first he felt that he must go as the trouble was with his heart, which felt as if be had been shot. He now has some hope of recovery. The Indians at Standing Rock have chosen the orators to represent them at tbe coming conference, but Sitting Bull is none of the chosen. Those elected are Gall, John Grass, Mad Biar, Big Head and Eagle That Scares.

THREE CASES OF ILEPROSY.

The Dread Malady Makes Its Appearance at Cape Breton. An Ottawa special says: A few weeks ago it was reported to the Department of Agriculture here, which is charged with the administration of health matters in Canada, that there were cases of leprosy prevalent on Cape 'Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Dr. Smith was instructed to make an investigation. His report, which has just reached the the department, shows that there are three distinct cases of leprosy on tbe Island—two women and one man. Tbe disease has made terrible ravages on the man, and Dr. Smith reports him to be a most repulsive looking object The three lepers have been in daily contact with their friends, and Dr, Smith has been instructed to keep a careful watch to see if the disease manifesto itself upon any of them, so that precautions may be'taken. The three lepers will be removed to Tracadi without delay and placed in charge of the Heroic Sisters of Charity* there.

Josh Billing's Philosophy.

New York Weekly. The grate art ov keeping friend# is tew keep them in expectancy.

THE CRONIN MURDER.

The for«wr*« Jury CkargM the Clm-m. Geel With tbe Crime-Alexaader Sullivaa Under Arrest as an Accessory. » The Coroner’s jury investigating the Cronin murder at Chicago came to a finding Tuesday evening. At 11:15 p. m., after being out five hours and a half, the jury came into court and commenced reading their verdict. It was a very long document, but was listened to with marked attention. The verdict charged that “Daniel Coughlin, P. O. Sullivan, Alexander Sullivan and one Woodruff, alias Black, were either principals, accessories, or bgd guilty knowledge of the said plot to murder Dr. Cronin, and conceal his body, and should be held to answer to the grand jury.” The verdict continues as follow?: “We also believe that other persons were engaged in this plot, or had guilty knowledge of it, and should be apprehended and held to the grand jury; and we further state that this plot, in its inception and execution, was one of the most brutal that ever came to our knowledge, and we recommend that tbe proper authorities offer a large reward lot the discovery and a eviction of all engaged in it in any way.” Alexander Sullivan’s arrest was effected without the slightest trouble. Be* fore the verdict was read in public, Coroner Hertz emerged for a moment from the room in which the jury was in session. He beckoned to an officer and handed bima mittimus. The officer, with a comrade, hruriedly left the city hall, and, jumping into a carriage, drove to the residence of Mr. Sullivan. Mr. Sullivan had gone to bed a short time previous, but after tbe object of the officer was explained and the information given that he would not be permitted any time for any purpose, he promptly ana quietly dressed and unhesitatingly accompanied his visitors. The prisoner’s demeanor was calm throughout the entire proceeding. Entering the carriage which had brought the officers, the trio were driven to the office of the county jail. After the usual preliminaries, Mr. Sullivan was taken through the cage into the gloomy prison itself. Tbe expresident of the Irish National League es America was then immediately incarcerated in cell. No. 25, in the tier known as “Murderers’row.” There was a terrible murder and suicide three miles south of Vincennes Wednesday morning, Seth Murray, a farmer, aged fifty-five, shooting his wife in the aboomen with a rifle. and afterward arming himself with a corn knife and severing her head from her body while she lay dying from the effect of the gnn-shot wound. Making sure of her death, Mr. Murray then ran into the yard and uncovered a bottle of prussic acid which he had concealed, swallowed the contents, and died almost instantly. Jealousy is supposed to have been tbe cause. The deceased were the parents of six children. Mr. Sullivan Wednesday filed a petition for release on habeas corpus "on the ground that the evidence before the coroner’s jury on which the verdict was rendered is insufficient to justify the commitment. So far as it reflected on Sullivan it was the result of prejudice and passion. The judge took the petition under advisement. Mr. Sullivan declares that he is innocent. A special Grand Jury to deal with the Cronin case was impaneled this morning in Judge Shepard’s Court. In addressing the jury, Judge Shephard said that he expected a full, exhaustive, impartial investigation of the murder of Dr. Cronin. The entire resources of the county, he said, would be at the disposal of the jury and witnesses who would not testify should be made to do so. The Grand Jury had in its poses* sion the power to make them do so. Alexander Sullivan, was released on $20,000 bail. Michael Davitt thinks Sullivan is the victim of personal spite. Alexander Sullivan’s friends are jubilant over Judge Tuley’s decision in the habeas corpus case, and declue that they are in for a fight. Woodruff, the hone thief, made a new confession of bis knowledge of and participation in the Cronin murder Sunday. He was seen in the afternoon, after the publication of his yarn.and cc nld not tell it again. He is preparing still another confession. Bis story is an interesting one. He implicates Alexander Sullivan, Coughlin and MeDi ugal. He says be was a member of the Canadian militia at the time of the Fenian raid. Little dependence is placed upon afiything Woodruff cays, and his confessions have little credence. Maronev and McDonald tbe two suspects arrested in New York were discharged Monday, their being no eviidence to hold them.

Weeds That May Be Utilized.

Many weeds can be utilized with advantage. Pnrslaine is highly relished by pigs, and the same is true of plantain. Rag weed and pig weed will also be eaten. If the hogs are made to consume these plants the labor of eradicating them will cost but little, as they can be converted into pork. There is no plant that grows more highly relished by the hog than pig weed. Young crab grass is also accepted.

THE MARKETS.

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