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'fHE MERCHANT AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. circula.tr1 largely in the Townships of Darlington, Clarke and Oartwn.gbt. It is a coromon platform, open to the free d1scuea1on of&llquestion.s in wh1ch the genera.I public are concerned. TERMS, EST DURHAM . Stea.m Job--:E'ri:c.ti:c.g Oiii.oe KING STREET, 13owMANVILLE. Seventy-five cents per annum1 In ad· vance. The 'Merchant' and Observer,' $2.QO. RATES OF ADV &RTISING . One culnmn 45 per annum. AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. VOLUME VII. BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, FRIDAY. AUGUST 2.'.i 1876. NUMBER llarbar1ty in Warfare. VILLAGES REDUCED TO ASHES, AND HELPLESS '\'OMEN AND CHILDREN SLAIN. POSTERS , PAMPHLETS ' CIRCULARS, :BILL HEAD$' CHEQUES , NOTES , HANDBILLS , LABELS CARDS, TICKETS .· &c. , ' T ranSlent ad ve1 tlsements,5 c'b:I per line ti.rat neert1on, and 2o. 'J)er hne, ench iluba8Qu6nt one H:llf do. Quai ter <l'.:. - · 25 J Ii 44 " XL VII &c.,&c, EXECUTED IN HRST CLASS STYLE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY I · r Cash Bargains for · AT POETRY. Love Lightens Labor. Lif men only app1eointeci. the helpfulne('ls of loving words, they would certaJ.nly coin more for <la.Uy UPQ 'J1hey are the best tonic u1 the world for tired hands as well a.a tired hearts al though lve ha.ve full fruth in the eflu:acy of help tng hands. 'rhe following verses from" Poems of Home Life," tells 11 profitable .story .1 A good wife roll!e from her bed one m o1111 Trains 'vitl leave Bowmanville St.atjon, owmanv1lle time; a.s follows : GOING WEST GOING BAST. BRIDGMAN'S & FLEMING'S Luca.1* . . 7·20, a.m; 'Expresa ~ ., .: 8,:30 a.m. Ji1xp1ess 9 80a..m : Mixed · ·.. 4·10 p. m. J.l.Iix ed 2·20 p.m I liocal . ... 1:30 p .m. E xpress 9.00 p. m. Express .. , · . 9.00 p.m. *This tra1u runs ev ery u:orning of week,- l I\{ondays excepted, BOW.U!NVILLE. ---:o:--- And thought with a nervous dread Of the piles of elotbcs to bo washed, and more 'rhan n. dozen mouths to be fed , Of the meals to get for the men in the field , And the children to send away 'ro school, and the milk to be skimmed Lind churn~d. ;_Dr.. M1;LAU~HLI_Ni-, ~. !·· Look at this, then buy them. T~.AS. No. I Black No. I Green, A good tea, 5 lb lot tif 50 c. cts 85. 80. 40. $2.25. And all to be done that day. It had rain ed in the night, and r.11 the wood WDB wet M it could be, '£here were puddings and lJies to bake, besHk i A ](laf of cake for tea. And the day was hot, and her aching b t:;1.<l Throbbed weanly as she said, '" If mrudens knew what good wives kno.,..· 1 They wonld be in no haste to wed !" L· R. C. P .. L -:&. , C, S, EDINBURGll. of 'fempern.nce and Church Streets, op~tte Sha1v's Hoh:l. l' [46 l y,-l ~,f E MBElt of the Med·calCounciloft>ntiii'io. ll'_l R esidence King Street, two l 1oors ea8t of Mcdh1ng1a Carriage Shop. Offtce : Corner a opmtual supper, that Captam Ricardo became Jealous of Gully's attention to htA wife , a quarrel ensued ; the Captain-a hard dr inker, und often tipsy - left bis house forever, \Vent to Oologne 1 and died Dr. Gully bas long beeu sepamtcd from his second wife, wlio now resided at Brighton. She is soine } ears older thar. he JS, You will see, therefore, th at the mystery is a very complex one mdeed The med1ca1 evidence show· that Charles Bravo died of antimony ; that the one persou be hated was Dr Gull y, anJ that he was the laot person ULthe world to comm1tau1c1d e. 1\frs Cox, ho" E. vc r, repeated yesterday th e testimony slic was supposed to have abandoned, nam ely, tbnt "hen he was taken 111 and she rushed mto the room he exclaimed . 'Mrs. Cox, I have taken potwn for Dr. Gullv ; don 1 t t ell }l,lorence' (his w1h:) 1 Mrs. Cox gave btr evidence 10 such a low tone that th e 19. wyers had to remonstrate with her. flt!r evidence 1s not generally beheved. F'10m the World. L ON DON, Aug 3 - It IS qmte clear that the wife ot the po1 eoned n1an, ]..frs. Bravo, "'""the mistrtss of Dr. Gullv; that Dr. Gully seat th" mysterous bottle mto the hou ~c , Rnd that after Mr. Bravo's death )frs. Bravo's ' compan100,' ~:Ire Cox, care· fully emptied the remains of the bottle down a closet All this is adnntted by Mra Cox Why she was anxious to empty that particular bottle, and why Dr. Gully should have sent it 1nto the house, are questions still unan s ~ er<d, but they are likely to be thoroughly sifted. The affair creates an a mount of talk e\erywhere which would perhaps surprise you-it is the topic of the day. Innocent or guilty, Dr. Gully will never be able to hold up tns head in Eng· laud agarn, tor 1t la at least clear that be was 1nduectlv, if nut directly, the ca.nae of l\1r. Bravo's death One of the stranges t parts of tht tbmg '" th at be is about 67 yea rs of · ge, whi le Mrs. Bravo is only about 30 If Dr Gully is called before the Coro· ner lt ~Ill be neceesary to have a strong body ot police to protect hiw from the mob> so tremendous ts the feelmg iigamst him. The expenses involved 111 carrying on such an 1nvest1gatlon as this 1s enormous. I have already told you that Sir Henry James receives a fee ot £100 a day tor at tend mg on behalf of Mrs. Bravo. She has another counflel who rece1ve<J £20 a day · She also pays the expenses of the counsel wbo watches the ca.e on belalf of her late 'compaa1on,' Airs Cox, amounting to £75 a day. Dr Gully's counsel rnust cost bun at least £80 a day, for my old friend, Ser · geant Parry, 1s one of them, and although he is by no means a !5I'itsping or an avart· cious man, I bope be would not condescend to go all the way to Balhorn in such a case a.s this for anyth1ug under filty guineaa a day. Then Mr. Bravo, the fath er of the deceased, 1s represented by .h'Ir. L6w1s, one of the keentst lawyers in Lond on, and a n1an who can couduct as aearclung J!. crosaex a m111at1on as Judge :Fullarton h1mselt All this ts, ol course, apart fro1n the expenses of witnesses and utber 1nmdental costs of the proceedings. If, therefore, tli ey do not succeed rn tindmg out "ho and what kill ed Mr Bravo, it '"11 not be for lack of trouble ' ' ttme1 or 1noney. I would Lot give m1 uch for Dr. Gully's practice at thta moo1ent. You ought to eee the way m which the 'penny \Y"eekiies '- the R '.l.d1cal papero ot Eogland-nre down upon him. Thia week bts portr.1t 18 to nppear m Vanity :F'air, so that every body will be able to see whut sort ol a man this too fascinating, although elderly Lothario really " What the Cnban War Has Cost Spain. Defore the declaratwu of Cuban mdepen· dence at Yara, m October, 1868, the annual taxes collected ID Cuba arr1ounted to abo1J t $26,000,000 Of this sum, about $6,000,000 was 1em1tted to Spain ev~ry year, leu.v1n g some $20,000,000 wbere>H th to defray the expenses of the a rn1y and navy, and the civil ser\1ce of the isla nd. S wee 1868 t hese taxes have been doubled but nrl.! still insufficient t o n1eet t he enormously ni creased expenseR , B ut se tt ing tbe colleclwns made by the Spamsh Governn~ent down at $ 50,000 1 0po a year, we have the lollo\\ing result: ~ ;fty n11lhona a yea1 for eight years$400,000,000 lh o Governn1ent owes a flnnt1 ng debt, 1epreaent1ng the excess of (Ji'rom llw Lo11don Tim" Correspondent) The question of the atroc1t1es perpetrated by Chr1st1ans and Muasulmans in some districts of Bulgaria, has become ao weighty a State affair, that I find myself compelled to return to the subject. On the first outbreak of the 1nsurrect1on 10 Herzegovina, toward midsummer of last year, the Government of toe Porte seemed to be taken by eurpr1se, treated the movement aa a matter of httle i1upo1taI1cC', nnd evinced a ren11ssness in dealing with 1t which bad th e effect of proJo u ~u1g and seuonsly aggravat ing tbP. strng· gle. When tidings of dJSturbances 1n Bulgaria reached Constnntlnople ID the early tnontbs of the present year,the Government, which had been reproached with tis paat carelessness, <leteru1ined to repwr tLat error by the display of in ore than usual energy in its new d1ffi~ulty, a nd went 1.o work to trC' nd down the first sparks of the incipient tire before i:..Jli'd time to assume the proportwns ot a general conflagration. The Government found ltself almost help· leBS in Bulgaria ; and although the Adria· nople and Pb1hppopoh Railway enabled it to send battalion after battalion to the scene of the dtsturbance with an alacrity uncx· am pled in Ottoman annals, still the Government deemed it expedient lo add to 1ts regular force, bands o! Bashi Bazouks, or irregulars, instructing the local authorities to enhst them on the spot, and allowrng their choice to fall spectnlly on those tnbes of Circassians who had been introiluced mto the province as settlers, and wbo, by their quarrelsome and rapacwus dispo'1tion bad ma.de themselves greo.tly obnoxious to the native population "That Bashi-Bazouks should have been employed at all," says the L evant Herald of yesterday, "has be<n condemned as a great error of judgment on the part of the Porte, for it ts evident by the letter we have received tro1n our Adr1an,Jple correspondent that even now the authorities have them un· der no aott of control." Reporta of deeds of plunder and murder, ot hurnmg of villages and destruction of crops, came to us with the earliest intelligence of the movement in the neigh borbood of Tartar Bazordjtk, ·nd were readily be· heved, as similar excesses are characteristic of every insurrectionary attempt throughout the Ottoruan dominions. It was stated that the insurgenta had burned, not only some of tbe Turk1sb villages, but even some of the Christian hab1tat10ns, m the hope oftn. ducing the peaaantry whom they thus ren· dered homeless, to join their ranks. It was even added that at one of the railway sta tiona, near Tartar Bazard;1k, six Turkish soldiers who had taken r~fug:e in its prem· 1 ses bad been burned altve-a report whtcb was afterward officially contradicted by ex· plawiug that the six men bad been k1lled tn fair flght, and th1lt 1t was only their dead bodies which bad been consumed in au ac· cidental conflaqrat1on. Whether or not the insurgents gave the first provocatton by their barbarities is a po1u i \\lnch 1e1nt1.111s to be ascertained; but no one denies that " wht!n the 1viussuln1an populatwn had been furmsb ed with nrms, and the 01rcassians and oth er und1 sciphnf'd hordes were turn ed loose to chastise the wretched peasan ts, the outcry came from t he Bulgarrnns, anJ a very bitter lamenta hon tt was." Dr. BOY:J,.E, SURGERY---SILVERST. RESIDE NCE ONTARIO i;TREET. SUGARS. Good cooking Good White, Wlllte Scotch Refin ed, Broken Loaf, Bov;manville, an. 20th, 1876. Ro yal..(:Q11ege of Physicians, Edinburgh . C..oroner, etc. lteSidence, Corner of Church and Sougog M of Surgeons. En gland; Licentiate of the Dec. 3rd, 1875. 10·.lf, Dr. Jas. Fielding, E MBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE " 13 lb. for $1. 12. " 11. IO. " J ennie 1 what do you tlunk I told Bl;Jll Brown?' Ca1led the farmi;:r from th e "'\ ell , And a flush orept up to h·s bronzed brow, And hlS ·J ·· hnlf baabfully foll , "It\\ as this," he sa.icl, and coming near, He smtled, and etoop1hg down, Kissed her cheek - " 't'i'ias this, tha.t you \\ere the bt:"st. And the d~arest "ife in town J" The farmer 1vent to the fi1:1ld, a nd the wife, In a smiling and absent 1vay, Sanr snatches of tender little songs She'd not sung for many a c.la.:r. And the ran1 in her hea.d was gone, atid the .F'roin the St Helena Star A strauge fn endshtp has sprung up he· t\.\een two very rl1 i:1 s1m1lar arnn1 a l~ at ~!rs . Stratton 'a A black rabbit earn (~ to t 1ie place so1ne th ree u1011tbs ago and took up ItA abode . I\frs S keeps 011 the place a couple of co ws, an d a short time since the ra1b1t took up the strange babtt of sl eeptng with on e of tht:ls ~ cows. It goee to the co w's wouted place of rest, wa Jtfl her coa1 .. ing, and when a11iv~U. th e moth erly co w hcks thtl htt le protege with much tho eume affectionate tenderness tha.t would be beR · ~owed on u calf, the rough tongue and tremendous licks nearly ra1s1ng the httle auimal off ita t eet, nnrl it the meanwhile bracing 1\self with its four feet to withstand th e expenses over income fo1 t he p1t:: ceding seve r~ years, which \va.s pressure. Then little bunny puts 1ts httlc offic10.llv st at ed ui ~Iarch last by noge up to t he cow's nose, and appears to th ~ l{oyal Co1nm1sl:l1 0ner 'l'hou1as R oclrlg nez R u bi, to amount to 180,000,000 kiss 11, aftei which the rabbit nestles up B eBules these su ms th e Go\i er!laient and gu·s to sleep. It 1s a singular bed · bar; been in receipt of t he rents and pt·oducts of all the sequester · fellowship, th e tiny bundle of fur and ears ed estat es. which at th e 1' ery ol perhaps three or tour pounds w11b th e lo\\ e1:1t11n<tte of t\'\i o m1ll10na of ..(lollara a. year erpial $16,000,000 unwieldy carcass of eix hundred. 1'otal $599,000,000 TbtB expenditure for eight years tallies perfectly with the b udget for the current year as formulated bv the Royal Commis sioner, Rubi, who estimates the ttxpen ses at The Foppish Prea.cher. Recently, in addressmg a class of theo· logical graduates, the Rev. DeWitt Tal · mage thus described the foppiah and fnvol · ous preacher : ' He has a handsome foot or hand, or he thinks be bas, It is evident from his gate and appearance that he bao received most of b1s 1nsp1ration Jroin the tailor, lhs glove fits so well that lt seems to have grown on; his boot as if made on a IMI of the latest fnshrnn. His hnir twists as though it bad been under curling irons. From h13 geeticulat1ona you know be has vrachsed them before a mirror He prides bur.self Oll betag a ladies' man, and looks so S\Veet, and baa the appearance of one of Godey's laah1on plates. As he takes out h1a handkerchief to wipe away a tear in tho midst ot hts sermon, the fabri c drops 'musk' and ' pachouly,' ' balm of a thous·nd flow· ers,' and 'new mown hay,' and 'kiss me quick' He is a stick of ecclesiastical candy , a moral peppermrnt, a rehgious chocobte drop He takes bis text from the most luscious part ot Solomon's Song, and ltsps 1n a mann Clr th\\eet beyond detbcr1ptton. He baa a diamond ring on two fingers, and a ghtter1ng stud 1n his shirt bosom. He sucks a sugar plum wb1le the collection is berng taken up, aod, though not short Sll'{ htt! d, baa hts glasse~ 'l.str1de hi e nose, hfte the hymn-book fantastically and reads: ' Th ere is a land of puah delight 'Vhere sa.1nts 1rnmawtal 1eign ' 9. Crock- Streets, Bowmanville. The Stock of General Groceries is large, and watTanted fresh. ery, Glassware, etc., etc, very low. Dr. DAVIDSON, RADUATE OF l'HE ROYA4 OOLUlege of Pl!y_s1c1ans, England, a'.nd Victoria Un11 ere1ty o( V1ctol'l11 College, Under Graduate and Prizeman of the Uni. .. ers1ty of '£oronto,and Royal Colle~ e of Pbyeiciana and Snr~ns :Kingston; Membex__ of the College_ofl' ai· c1a.ns ~ Surgeoos of Ontario; Coroner, c R esidence a.nd office- m arket Square, J3ow1 n Pl{OVISIONS AND FEED FOR SALE, Farmers produce taken in exchange for goods. clothes \Vere as white RB the foci1n of the sea. , H er bread wa.s hght, and her buttc1 was Remember, Cash gets a Benefit at 11 sweet, Ani.l golden as it oould be. Just think," the children all called Jn a m an v1lle . BRIDGMAN & FLEMING'S. breath, .., '- _J;lowm~nville, l<'e]/, 24Jh, lS7G. _ ~y. R R l!OSCOMllE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, _so~IOITOR IN CHAN()R~Y· .. DOMINION ORGAN CO'S 1 0 Fl!'IC.B,-0Yer lvfcOlung's Store, !&JD.e fiat as J .. Br1macomb'a Dental Room1. J3owmanville, Oct. 27th, 1868. ly - . .ec -IMPROVED A ND REMODELLED- " '1'010 Wood has r n n off to sei\. ; He wouldn't, I know, if be only had As happy a homu as we. " 'l'he night came down 1 and the good wife smiled '!10 herse1f, as .she soft]y said : cc 'Tie so sweet to labor for those we love, It's not strange tha.t maids will wed !" -- D. E. McMillan, .A-TTOllNEY A'/' LAW, , . SOLIOI10R lN CHANCERY, ,,. COlvVEYANCER, tie. Newcaat1e, Oct 8th, 1875. IIll: .... u:: ~ = :z CABINE'l1 ORGANS. "ct :io LITERATURE. STRANGE POISONING CASE. THE B.or,HAM llfYSTERY BEFORE THE -- NEWCASTLE ONT~ ln5t:tr. ;l :!:; __. I- :z .., a: '" -t 'r' Cono NER A SECOND TruE . -:."uR_:D A.VI~-M0RRIRON .... = :z j.r: u.m: or.. DiSTAN-D. .... :::& 1-tJ has pleasure Ill 1nfo1 ming the public that he ha.s secured the services of a FIRST-CLASS BARBEU and HAIR DUESSER, and IS pre· pni-etl to gua1antee sat1sfaction, and rru;-pect .. fully solicits p ublic patronage. Hmr cuttins antl conibiag, moderate Switches made at tho ::ihortest notice and most reasonable rates. A complete assortment of cigars, tobr.ecoa,(and J_11pca a.h\aye on hand [ 4G tf] IIll: = :a -c: ... Zl A TRAGEDY VrcTrM's IN "\Yurc11 THE Ae1ons OE' HAVN HAD CuRt o u s Hrnronrns -h<rEREsTING 11BE TESTIMONY OF .1\ . . CO:lil'A!SlON WIFE. = en :!! >.... e::; Ill: = = ~ ... Q Q -t !'" z MARRIAGE LICENSES, 1\if R JOH!\ H EYNON, Lot 7, 6th Oou. l..ll. D:ulmgton, fnear Bethesda Church] 111 duly authonzed to issue Marriage L1cenaea, Darlington, Nov. l9, 1874 mS-tf, WBUNNEY, G-enera.l :Builder a.:c.d Oo:c.traoter. Jobb ,i ng promptly attended to. This Company has recently been re-organi?,ed by the addition of three of the most practical men from the Facto1·y of Clough & Warren Organ Co., Detroit, Mich., each taking an active part in his own particular department, and are now manufacturing an Organ equal, and in many point.; superior,to any manufactured in the United States or Canada. Our celebrated" Vox Celeste,"" Vox Humana,"" Wilcox Patent Octavo Coupler," "('dlo." or "Clarionet" Stops, "Flugle Horn," "Dulcet," "lEoline," "Cremona," and Grand Organ Step, and All the Late Improvements Can be obtained only in these Organs. "Neatness with Dispatch." Office and Shop, on Ontario Street, :MOTTO. Jlo"manv1lle, Moy 18th, 1876 35-U. Something New. HE U NDERSIGNED mforms the Gentle· T men of the Dominion, that ht1 prepared to clean. and make almost as good ns new, any ia t:m1led or farlcd garment . 'fhe -..:olor 1s reetored, n.nd the coat, or what else, puts one. new appe~uance. 'flventy-F.i.ve Di~erent Style~, for the Parlor and the Church, the Best Material and Workmanship. Quality and Volume of tone Unequalled. PR1CES $50 TO $1000. Factory and Warerooms, Cor. Tempe1ance and Wellington Streets, Bowmanuil/e. Aqents Wanted in Every County. Send for Prico LU~ Satisfaction guarant~d, or no charge, THOS. PEA.TE. Bow1nanville, Apnl 21Bt, 1876. 30-tf, Prof. J. Ruse, G Composition, etc. RADUATE of Baxter University of Musio Fr1endsb1p1 N ew York, 'l'eacber of Pu1.no and Organ, cultivation V 01 c e, Smg1ng, Thorough BaBS1 Harmony Darlington, July 16th, 1874. 41-ly Address DOMINION ORGAN CO., BOWMANVILLE ONT. Al80 General Ag~nts for Canada, for the BRADBURY PIANO. R. D. FOLEY, bas tnk2n out a hcen1:1e a.s Rice&: Bwrker, Agents for the. Gown.ties of Durham, Victoria, and North and South Ontari-0. Bowmanville,Deo, 2l·t, 1875. AUCTIONEER £or this To'i\llfllllp, Sales will receive the beet attt1nt1on. Ilowmwn ille, Feb. 24th, 1876. ly. AUOT IONEER For the Town ship of Da1·lington. BUY YOUR GOODS, FOR CASH, AT . T. PHILLIPS, RAMPTON. rrompt attention given to sa..les1 etc, on relUJOD· able t erms. F. Y. COWLE'S. Wm... Barton, 1.t ENNISKILLEN. les promµtly attended to on reasonable term.e. DENTISTRY Conclusive evidence is in favor of such action, as the following figures will show: CASH. CREDIT. 10. 1:n. Cottons 8. 9!. Prints 100. 115. Tweed ~Q . 500 Blankets Every othr r class of Goods in same Proportion. My Stock-is Large and Varied, J Brimacombe, L,R.C. D.. FEES MODERATE. E ow111anville. Dec. 1:{74. 11-tf. and has been selected with gr eat caic. J hesitate not to say that satisfaction, both as to m11te1iaJ o.nd price, will be given. OFFlCE ove1· McCLUNG'S Sto· re ----- - - THE CLOTHING DEPARTMENT - :0:-- is made a special one, being under the supervision of Mr PEARDON, who is known tQ be a cutte1· of ability. Orders will receive prompt Liverpool London, and Glasgow attention. " L"10R 1'ickete, or informatio~ app~y to _11 ALLAN LINE STEAMSHIPS. W. A. N.i!iADS, .Agent. Bowmn.ni;dle, .Tune 9th, 1871. tf-30 a. day at home . Agenta $12 ., Outfit and term· !roe, TRUE & CO Augusta Maine. · bp·olll-w25-ly WREMEMBER, cash will buy from 10 to 15 per cent. cheaper than wanted credit. F. Y. 00-W-LE. {From the Cincinnati Oomrnercial) mystery 1ncrell8eS in interest. The Coroner's Court ls crammed l\'tth persons of both sexes, and yeaterday the run upon the room in which reh eshments are provided at one hme \VBS such tbat the lawyers could hardly get tbe1r luncheon. The immediate occaa1011 of this pressure was the evidence of h-lra. Cox, a co1npanion of ]..fra. B r avo, the victim's w1fc1 around whotn suspicion .baa gathered A largo crowd 1s nlw ays waiting outside tbe court room to get a ghmpse of her, and yes· terday it was thought best lo take her to her comage by a private door. The chief dramatis personoo of this tragedy have bad strange histories. .Mrs Bravo's father was originally, it 1s said, an AuHtralian squatter. lie became wealthy, and the family r esroence at Huocot Park IS pa lotial, Captam Ricardo, her first husband, who is thought to have died under suspic ious circumstances, belonged to the fnm1ly of the famous writer on polit1co.l economy of the same name. Mr. Bravo, father o~ the v1ctiru, hvea with his wife 1n the be::i.u t1ful house in Kensington Pahee Garden, built by Thackeray, and for some time occu· pied by hi!ll. Mr Bravo had given hts sou a good education, and the youD~ man had the prospect of a Rood career; but his par· ents bitterly opposed his marriagp with Mrs. Ricardo, even thou~h th ey knew notbmg of the scandal wb1ch had connected her name with that of Dr. Gully. This Dr. Gully was founder ot the hydro pathic establishment at Malvern He bas been a volum1noua writer on medical sub· jecta. For a good many years he ha!:! been identified with spir1tuahsm, and a particular friend of Home, the medium, He seem,s to have known the lady (Mrs Bravo), who ad tnitted and deplored her infatuation for bun, from the time she was twelve years of age. He is near seventy, she about t\venty-five years of age. Mrs Cox is the daughter of an East Indian merchant She married (1856) and went with her husband (1861) to Jamaica, where he was in Government employ. i:!ix years after be died, and she returned to th1s country with her three boys; whom ahe supported by teaching, until she met Dr. Gully, who mtroduced her to Mrs. Ricardo, who mv1ted her to re· Side w1tb her as 'companion.' In 1872 they resided together in apartments al Great Malvern, and were under the professional care ot Dr. Gully. Mrs. Ricudo bad wealth, and much more in prospect, 11esides berng beautiful. Smee her late huaband's death, and the excite, ment about it, she has received large bUmbers of anonymous letters accusing her of the crime, and has several times been al.. most insane, imagining herself pursued by e. mob. The ev1dence 1 bol\ ever, tends less and leas to incr1m1nnte her. She knowi:i:, however, that she 1-:i the ' Helen' of the tragedy, and death could hardly be worse than the shadow that llM falleu upon ber life, eud the consc10usness of the degree to which her 1nd1scret1on has caused the whole trouble. H er mother, Mro. Campbell, a highly educated lady, has given her evt· dence with great clearness, aud has produced tile impression that she ts telling the trutbwbicb "· on the whole, favorab le to th e ID· nocence of her daughter aa to this crime. Poor Mrs. Bravo hardly knew the extent of the accident which befell her when one day when cut hunting she sprained her b·ck. This led to cold water and Dr Gully a.nd to thr nervous agitation ot spirit circle~ witb. Home at th e head of them. It w.. at LONl>ON . -The Balbam $83,000,000 In this est1mate the expenses of th e army and navy figure for the round sum of $50,000,000. Spain's national debt amounts to over $2,600,000,000, the interest of wh1cb must, when paid, be ~erived from the labor of a populattou of about fifteen milltons. Span· isb bonds are worth about 13! per cent. Spain hns neve1· asa11med the debt contrdct ~ ed by the Government in Cuba. So much for the financial cost of the ef. fort to retain possession of Cuba, In the hves of its people the war in Cuba bas been ·qually disastrous to SpaiQ. She had, when the war broke out, a force of some fourteen thousaud men in the islo.nd She has sent thither srnce October, 186A, re -entorcements of not less than 20 000 each year-in some years they have fa~ ex~ ceeded tbJS figure-and she bas to day not over forty thousand men m Cuba fit for service, Tbe total loss of men to Spu1n, occas1oned by the war, can be aalely stated not to have been under 160,000 for the past eight years. That a laige portrnn of the agricultural d1str1cts of Spi;Lln are running to wasf-e for waut of bands, that women till the fields, that manufacturing interests of a ll anrts are dy1ag out through scarcity of labor, nre oo wonders i but tbal Spa1u should. not, before she is utterly bankrupt in roP.n and money abandon so costly and so hopeless a str1f~: ··n be accounted for solely by the wan t ol moral courage on the part of ht!r lead1og statesmen.-Sun Hard Work. I l L - It would tnk e nbont o1'ty of th em t o equal one decent doll bahy After hearmg such a _young mac prl:'< teb, an old cl e rgy ~ man arose 111 the pulpit to n1 ak e the c loB· Ing pruyer, aud said, ' 0 L 11rd, blees th te y oung man, an d make btR h <: art as eoft as his head .' ' Centennial Notes. The Centenmal hve stock dJSplay, embracing the finest exh1b1t1on of horsef:l,mules, dogs, horned cattle. sheep, swine, goats and poultry ever Sben in this country, wdl open nt the new ) ards wluch have been estabhsh· ed at the intersection of Lancaster and Girard avenues, at o. cost ro tlie commission of $50,000 Over four hundred stalls for horses and cattle have been erected, and all of these substantially built and convenient· ly appornted, being abundantly supplied with water and illummated at mght with i;as All the yards will be under the sur· ve1llance of the Centenmal Police, the Cent~nn1al Bnreau of .Agriculture having super· v1e1on of the entire arrange men ta. Animals for which entries are already being made are of a class entlre]y different fr0m those that are usually seen at county and State fairs, as the condlt1ona of a.dm1SBion are based on tbe !meal descent from tbe purest breeds The Canadtan displays will undoubtedly be a very frne one, the whole number. of anin1als from thnt countrv amounting to over 650. These ore be1ng selected by a comm1saion chosen by the Prov1nc1al Gov~rnrneut, which paya all transportation .expenses on the condition that animals are such as to do credit to the country The competition of UanBda will be uot only 1r.iternat1onal 1 but also between the Proviuces themselveei, as the Commie· s1on oft'er special prizes for the best cattle from each Province. The com petition as to ammals entered for the display will be accoramg to age and sex, the JUdges being required to make written reporte, attested by their own s1gnatnres, upon all animals of h1gh ment, these reports bemg regarded in a business point ot v1ew as of b1gher value to succe'6ful breeders th.n the medals and diplomao wb1cb conat1tute the additional features of the a wards, As an evidence ol the high claSB of the exh1h1ts expected, it is announced that remarkably tin!:\ sheep of the Cotswold and other breeds recently exb1b1ted at the Royal Agricultural display at Birmmgbam, England, will be represented, 146 of these now betng on their way direct for Philadelphia from that exhibition. The aggregate of entries to date include 700 horned cattle, 300 fine bred horses, and 400 dogs. While entries ruay be made up to the opemng of each section of the Exh1bi· tion, it 1s important to ex.hilntors to be JD time, as late comers will lose the opportunity of having tbe1r display regularly cata· logued. Sprmgs are T ake care of little things. little things, but they are sources of large streams , a helm is a little thin g, but it governs the course of a ship ; a bridle btt ia a little tbmg, but see its pracllcal use and power ; nails and pegs are little things, but they hold !urge parts of bmldmgs together. So a word, a look, a trown-all are bttle th ings, but they are powerful for good or evil. Tlnnk of th 1~ 1 pare nts and teacbera, and mmd the little things in the lives, and words, and actions of th e children intruRted to you. 'What Iii your secret of success 1 asked 1\ A Cheerful Old Age. lady of TurDl!r1 the d1at1ngu1shed pauiter A feehng ol dread nt th e approach ot old He rephed, 'I have no sec1e t, madam, but ha.n.t l'<Ork. ' age ts nlm ost unn· e1sal It is good t o' h ear Saya Dr Arnold, ' The difference he i:;uch a t est1111 o uv as Albert BnrneA gives of ·score uod tl:'n ' tween one bo,y aucl nuotber rn not & o 01uch 'L1tu nt thre1 in tu.lent as in energy.' 'I have found 1t all tb nt I hope<l 1t might 'N otl11ng,' ea) s Reynold", 1 1s denied be1 not rou gh 11n rl rocky and craggy an d we l l directed labor, aud notlung is to be at· bar!'en 1 not co vered wttb nnets or clo utls ; n ot darkened wnh tempest.a, not broken up ta1net.l without it.' 'Excellence in any department,' say 5 i nto ri dges ana r av1nee, but so culm, so Johnstone, ' can now be atta1u ed only by peacelul, so smooth, so surrounded with the labor of a hfetune ; it 1s uut to be pur· chee rin g prospects, so covered with sunsl11n(', so pleasan t to tl1e eye, anU so fill ~ chaeed at a lesser price ' E1orn the Lonclon Daily .l·{eus "l'here is but one method,' aiud Sjdney with S\\ eet so ut..-ds grateful to the ear us Every tongue is charged with well au.. SuHtb, 'and that is ha.rd Jabor; and a man make tne desu e to linger there still, and to thent1cated t1drngs ot Turkish atroctlles who "ill not pay that pnce for dist1uct10n, prolong the Hay ere the descent must be committed on the inoffenstve peagant folk of bad better ded1cate hunself to th e pursmt made,' If we would e!lJOY such a peaceful old the frontier v1lluges. Th~ men are gone of the fox.' from the vill ages of the Greu ze , the vic' Step by step,' reads the French proverb, age we inust lead a similar hfe of temper· a.nee, industry and usef1.1.lness in God's ser· hms are the miserable won1en and hapless 'oue goes very tnr. ' vice, Albert Barnes labored to make the children. Burning, wrecking, butchery, and l N uthi:ag,' says Mira.beau, 'is inipoaaible violation, constitute to all appearance the to the man who can will. ' Is that nece&· most of the powers God gave him. To this enjolDed !unctions of the merctless Bosbt· sary 1' ' 'l'hat shall be.' ThlB lS the only end he took good care of the body, that the powers of th e mrnd might not be clogged Buzouks and ruffianly Redils, whom the law ohuccesa.' Turkish commanders, keepmg in fixed posi , 'Have you ever entered a cottage, ever and impeded by lt. He was systematic in t10n; their regular troova, let loose "1th let· travel 1 ed m a coach, ever talked mtb u his ha.bits of taking food, sleep, and exercise, ters of marque to practice the utmost ingen. ~easant in the field, or loitered with a me- and so successful was the system he adopt· mty of deviltry, Officers and soldiers who chanic at the loom, ' and not found that ed, that be could snswer in old age, when come down from the hon! authenticate each of those men had a talent you had asked ol his health, ' I am perfectly well.' His intellectual powers were likewise them with tales of burned villages wb1cb not, knew eomethiug you knew not 1' they have seen, the mangled bodie· of ch1lThe most useless creature that ever yawn au bJ ected to a drill a.a exact hS that of a dren lying m the gutters among the charred ed at · clubs or counted the vermlD on h1s soldier, and to tbts the world is indebted for debris, headless trunks of Servian aoldiera raga under the suns of Calabr1a, has no ex.· the vast and vnried amount of work he was in placea where there has been fightmg,men cuse for want of mtellect. What men want enabled to pertorm for th e Lord be loved. But the great work of lns hi·, the one he in the up-county hoep1tals 'vith noses sht ia not talent, it is purpose ; in other words, by kmves as tbey lay helpless from their not the power to achieve, but the will to felt deeply, humbly grateful to God for al · wounds. labor. I am no (hsbhever in genius, but I lowing lnm to perform, v.·aa his notes on In the course of an aiternoon's nde, I believe that labor, JUd1c10usly applied, be· tbe Scriptures . Theae were begun for the purpose of explaining them very simply yesterday tound .my way into a little vil· eomcs ge111us. for the benefi' of fi,l',n day School teachers. la~e .on the hill slope, about the door of one ----~--It was almost u matter 01 .:JJt",.\oi.o- to him of the houses m wb1cb there wM a group of Ora.eking a Commandment. "benbefouud himself at tbevuend~f- ffie women and children, with h2re and there I wonder if you have read or heard th.I New Testament, and a still greater eurprise an old man-all the able-bodied men are capital story of the little Sunday school when be found that a milhon volumes of a way to the war. On the settle under the gnl. It is so good that I ahall tell lt at a th em had been scattered over the world. proJecting eaves, there eat a woman, drag· venture, She was a poor little girl, but she Yet he did not sit <lown tdly to enjoy th e gled, mlBerable, and forlorn, w1th a boy had one or two oranges tn her hte,and knew remembrance of his labors wben nld a~" about twolve years old standmg by her side, how very dehc1ous they were. So on e <la}\ came on. He fe lt that bis work would onlt, and around them the people bad formed a when she happened to go with her mother be done when life was done, Th OTaSfSab· semi c1rcle, and were looking on in silence. into a market, and saw a large basket full bath of his hfe he addreRSed a group of The woman, too 1 was silent ; she sat there of fine fruit,It tempted her very rriuch. Her color<d cb1ldren m the House of Refug·, in an apathetic re very of despondency, "1th mother "as away at the other end of tb e and 1t was th e last ee rmon of the great com· her eyes on the ground, a.nd oue arm aronnd room \v1th th e shopman,and they WP.re both mentator. 'l'he lest act of h1' hfe was a the boy. One of the women whtspered some· too bu·y to notice her. So she put out h er visit to the widow a nd fatherless. thing to my companion, a Servie.n officer, hand and took the ti ret orange lt touched, Act.Ive service for Chnst is the fittest whose !ace flushed, and whoae mouth set and h1<l 1t under her little thin shawl But, preparation fo r a cheerful old age, and & sternly, at tho low recital. Dismounting, as I told you,she was a Suuday school ch1l<l, peaceful departure from the shores of time. he approached the woman, and speakrng to and had not only beeu taught th e commandS11mda1 1 School Times. her, startled her from her abstraction. As ment.s, but she understood them, and kne\\o· -that they meant somethmg to her. So,Ju·t he spoke, at first she was asleep seemingly, A bueiness man hit one side of Moody'!! and ind1fferent ; her aspect was that of one as she hid tho orange, something w1th1n her whiepered, "fhou sh1:1.lt n ot Eiteal l' at wluch with no interest m auythmg. B"t at length she Jropped tbe orange back mto the bas- preaching by saying, "He talks and acts hke a business mun, like a merchant with she krnd led, and with fl ashin~ volubihty, ket as 1f lt h ad been a ltttle ball of fire, in· five hundred barrels of beef, wbicb be 1s poured forth tbe terrible story of her stead of a refreshing frmt. You must know determmed to sell qmck for cash." This wrong·, which my companion translated to that nobody saw her do this but the great bus1tJeas maunc1-fcr nothing else eo well God. describes it-strips off from religion a mass me. T his h ttle gi rl left the store with her of d1sg uiees that lt hM worn for the popu· H er cottage had been burned before her n1other, who noticed, as they were walking Jar eye, and brmgs ua face to face with the eyes ; of three children she had seen one,her down the street, that she waa unusually bare realities of Cbrishan faith. No doubt baby, tossed about from soldier to soldier, silent, and, on pushing back her bonnet to men of business a.re insensibly moved to r e· was th e matter, behold, i:he \\'RS flecllon by h stening to one like unto them· and then flung mto the flames ; the thud, ~ee what cryin~ 1 At last her mother coaxed her to selves in addreSB aud speecb. It 1s the lay the lad who wM now w1tb her, bad made tell the trouble, nnd 1:1he sa1d, '0, mother, I element nt1h zed. Another commendable his escape and Joined her !rom the cover ol cracked a commaudment J I didn't break it, aod noticeable tbrng ts that be does not a wood, after ebe bad been o.llO\\·ed to drag for I put the orange beck, and I crooked it!' preach a.bout D L. 1t-Ioody ; and in this reherself a way fr om th e sce ne oi devlllr}. rr here are t en comm w.ndrnen ts, I behe ve, SpPct be is BlH qeneris- all the other e \·nn ~ Hljr relatives hved, she S£!. l d , 1n one of the and I wonder lf · ll t he c ~ dd re u who " 111 g ehsts \\e e \ t>r hcnrd c: pent half th eir time hamlets of the Golubmge upland, and ·he read my experience, are careiul not only not in telhng t heir ex pl oit!:' What Jesus did ha<l tramped thus tar on h>r way to ahelter to break, but not t o crack, in th e least, anv is the sub.iect of Moody's talks, W e wish one of the ten. · the rest would im1tate him, herself among them. -l I -------- -~--~--