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Ee an cal - “THE WEEK'S NEWS|. —wever suiled from Francisco, and fears are CANADA. Geinue satis Righ Hon. oseph Chamb erlain is at Quebec. ic rt retail grocers have organised an associa = The aie of wheat = Manitoba averages 80 cents a bushel. Three men were drowned on -Mon- “day near Mediieidge. Bishop Farand, of Athabaska, died last week at St. Boniface The Earl and Costens of Aberdeen left’ Ottawa on Monday for British Columbia. Coal dealers in Toronto on Wednesday ad- awanced the price of coul 25 cents per ton. Begin & Co., boot and shoe manufacturers, of St. Roch’s, Quebec, are reported to have il Hon. D. A. Ross has been sworn in as President of the sae in the Quebec se to the amount of $1,671,807 have peen selioctod in Toronto in two instalments this yea ahs Engliah farmers’ delegates are at Salt N.W.'T., and they are greatly pleased with “the Seat "Ys The apncesiee fishing econ Davy Crockett has been seized at Souris, P. kb. Taian; Not “illegal: fishing. The military authorities at Halifax decid- -ed that last week’s mimic attack proves the forts to be impregnable. Mr. R. M. Meredith, Q.C., London, has been appointed Vice- Ghanosilor of Ontario to succeed Justice Proudfoot, whoretires. -f The Locomotive Works at Kingston have received an order from the Grand ‘Trunk rail- way for ten of the strongest Mozul engines. Mr. Locker, dairy expert for the Cana- dian Pacific Colonisation Co. at Queenstown, was found dead on the prairie nar Gleichen N.W.T. The body 6f Dr. Eberson, w hi was drown- ed in Rideau lake, has been taken by boidy- snatchers from the grave where it was in- terred in Kingston. Bryce Douglass, a British shipbuilder, who was at Ottawa a day or two a; #0, submitied & proposal to the Government in regard to the Atlantic mail service. The Governor- a sk ean party left Que- “bec on Monday by the Intercolonint railway for a trip through tlie M: uwitime Provinces, They w itl be one from Gitewa until the end of Ovctob Capt. W. atta of the patrol boat Keewatin, lost on Lake Winnipeg, has arrived ut Sel- kirk, The mounted policemen were drown- ed, one of whom was a son of Mr. Morphy, a ‘Toronto lawyer. Sir Hector Langevin was in Montreal on Monday on his way bac k from the North- West, e spoke of the wonderiul progress made by that country since his last visit, twenty veurs ayo. Hon. William Mae lougall returned on Monday to Ottawa trom ~ bourg, where le recently met with a sev cident, is -healthis improving, | hough: he still suffers from the strain and bears traces of his con- finement. A meeting was held in Toronto the other day for the purpose of forming an association to advance the mineral interest of Canada, and a strong committee was appointed to re- port on a scheme to aid in the mineral development of the country. deputation waited upon Sie John Thompson last weck and urged that in pur- chasing tobacco for the Indians the Govern- ment should purchase only tobacco mannfac- tured from Canadian leaf, in order to encourage the growing of tobacco in Lower Canada. A little boy had one of his feet canght Yetween a plank and a railata crossing in Toronto the other day, Awoman seeing the dangerous position he occupied he Md him | down will an approaching train had passer over one of his feet, doubtless by her pre- sence of mind saving the boy’s lite. Sir George Baden-Powell, who has re- turned to Ottawa from a visit to the phos- phate fields of the Du Lievre district, says the resources are splendid, but the high prices demanded tor the claims will retard the _ developine nt of the mines and drive Lo seek in Spain or elzewhere. young Englishman named Thomas Veitch, left Fenelon township. Ontario, near y via San a year 20 for Australia Franviseo. His mother land has Written to friends in Fenelon asking as to: his whereabouts, Tnquiry shows that he entertained that he has net with foul play, ‘i Three members of the Alpine Club of Paris, France, have returned to Ottawa from a trip to the Rocky Mountains. They succeeded in taking observations from the summit of Mount Sir Donald, atan = titude of 11,000 feet, and ascertained tha the inountain is 400 feet higher than aE down in the Dominion Government Survey reports. A deputation of Montreal citizens, head- ed by Major Grenier, waited a day or two ago upon Premier Mereier aud Prov incial | Treasurer Shehyn for the purpose of asking ! the Government to reduce the number of liquor licenses-in the city, of which there’ are nearly a thousand. Mr, Shehyn wanted to reduce the numberof ligeuses, but increase the amount, 50 that the. revenue would not | GREAT BRITAIN. Mr. Joseph Sey has been elected Lord Mayor of Londo The Comte de Paris left Liverpool on} Monday for New York A death from cholera is ported to have! occurred at Bristol, England A ay named Easton ibit himself dead! in St. Paul's Cathedral on Sunday during sery is Twelve persons were jatally scalded in consequenceof an explosionat Newcastle-on- | Tyne, on Saturday. | Miss Leonard, daughter of Senator Leon- ard, was married at London last week to Mr. W. ©. Barron. M. P. } Patrick O° age member of the ticuse of Commons, who was arrested at Dublin, is suffering from easkii catarrh: The Lond don Times predicts cy the Me. Kinley bill will cut both ways. will do, ve harm to America, anid didlocats the general fadasteial of the world, li ing members of “th entering intoa At the trial of the arrested Nationalists at Tipperary last week there was a consider: ble struggle sd ween the police and the rowd, cat by = court boas doors bein, k, N.J., — ow wark three children of Joho rda\ suichle vhere. Judge. Tyner, the Assistant Attorney- General of the United States. Post-office Department, says the legislation which he contemplates putting in motion nee the Louisiania State Lottery will also apply to Church rattles. UNITED STATES. The papel of Detroit is placed’at 205,( Heavy rains tae damaged oN cotton crop in the Memphis, Tenn., distric The population of San eee is 297,000, an increase of 61,031 since 1580. The steamship Majestic made a trip from Queenstown to New York ind days 21 hours and 29 minutes. Texas fever 18 proved to have existed in several herdsof prizecattle at the “i ae fair. A bull valued at $2,000 die Mayor Gleason,. chief? executive of the ne uich of the National League, bays the Leese 1e in Atmcrica is practically. dis- banded, The western coal agents in New York on Monday decided to advance prices 25 cents per ton at Butfalo, and 15 cents at Chicago and other lakes ports, on October 1. officially IN GENERAL, The owner and crew of an English cutter have been massacred by the natives of New Guinea. s The Turkish newspapers have been for ridden to comment on the affairs of the churches. Tt is stated the Crown Prince of Roumania will shortly be betrothed to Princess Vic- teriw of Wales. 2 The Swedish elections for members of the Reichstag are p going strongly in favour of the free trade ps pa The damage «by floods in the depart- mert of Ardeche, France, alone amounts to 50,000,009 frances. Several extra steamers have been chart- ero: to take yoods from France to. America before the MeKinley bLitl comes into force. Inaduel at Hamzburg, Gergeny, last week, between Lieut. Blethstasser and Lieut. Garner, the former was killed. The duel was the result of a quarrel. Polish journals say that daring the recent Russian military mancuvres 400° soldiers were thrown into the water and drewned by a bridge breaking down. Horr Soueberg, a Soialist, has been ser- tenced to three months in prison at Berlin beeause ne remarked that Emperor William {would in time-become-afociahst> Referring to the recent scandals involy- the German aristocracy. |! Zevtung says the nobility mur a ie Areus lead a better life if they do not wish to pro- voke the masses to revolution. that Germany instead of war of reprisals with the United” States over the McKinley bill will It is stated slant ascheme to lessen the cost of livin to the masses by higher imposts on the 7 ede The Coch of German Wine-Growers have sent a memorial to Chancellor von Ca- privi declaring that the McKinley ruin the export trale with America, and asking whether it is possible .. i this by diplomatic means. hill will obviate The Italian government has been informed ly several pretects that there is apprehen- sion of trouble in their provinces owing to ; the large numbers of ane mp syed w orkmen, ‘who live in the utirost misery. In some towns the men have become troublesonie and demand work. rt a Shootiug Beer. Complaints are once more being made by the pcople of Muskeka that deer are shot during es —_ season, the destruction be- ing very reat. ie laws, they claim, are stringent Soren, but their enforcement is ax. Hounds are alowed te run loose all the year round, and many deer are killed, while others are frequently so injured ‘that death ensues, During the suinmer stason the deer leavethew evarte the fies, and feed upon th s thet grows in the bottom of small lakes, ‘o get at the grass, which does not grow out of the water, the der plunge their heads under water, and while feeding thusat night are attacked by po: -hunters, who use a light, and can get clse enough to the ani- mals to kill them with a club, although as a vale they are shot. During the day time the deer frequently enter a cultivated field, and enjoy a meal of roots, ete., but if notic- ed by the owner they are shot on sight, re- ardless of the conditions of the game laws. fthe deer are to le preserved it will be necessary for the Government to appoint me to look wi law-breakers, especial- the owners of dogs, and those persons soak not be given too large a territory to inepe If the law regarding dogs were, observed or enforced the destruction of deer woul] be greatly reduced, The Canudian Methodist church has set- tled, for four years ct least, the eee of the length of the ministeriat pastora old term of three years will not be dleparted | « from. The majority in favor of this resolution at the Conference now being held ih Mont- eal, was a small one, and the large vote in end of a four years term shows a rowing feeling that the church would not losa.by a policy that would give the ministers some néarer approach toa settled home. It was noted though, thet while the strongest ar- guments in favor ofan extension came from the ministers, the strongest resistance arose among the lay memkcrs, and, in this country the lay members are the church. It m ay be aharder: task to overcome the opposition than the narrow majority would indicate. And certainly the conservatives have good arguments to support the old order. The history of Methodistn in this country, and on = continent, has been one of wonderful ' progress, the fruit of a wonderful zeal by a ministry laboring underall the disadv: antages (or with all the advantages) of athree years’ l fere. itinerary. Rent poate the last ten yea { 1 In the region of Kharkov, Bc Me Be and as decreased by more than ity per There are three causes of that he land diminished in price, and ‘the best renotiuial have ipsa leaieg to America. The owners of large ranches of Merino sh realize a present no more than about six pounds of wool from every sheep, while under the oe of ea st she hesiis. ten ponads- and m ery year. ides this the cloth faotort adulierets their fabrics large- grain is washed only to-clean it from. dust, and- immediately afterward is turned into dough and baked in the usual jnanner. Those who have tasted this bread say that it cannot be eee from the bread made of flour. Samp the new kind of presi have been pone 1s te Ministry of War and to the Imperial Technical Commission, and a patent sd the method of baking has been applied fo The Convent ofSt. George, situated at about ten versts south of Kherson Russia, will be a thousand years old in 1891. It is the oldest Christian institution in Russia; it was established a hundred years before Vladimir Sviatoslay caused his people to accept Chris- tianity, During the first three bundred years of its existence the convent was the only stronghold of the cree on the insula of Tanrida: In 1 3, when Tuar- <ey gained possession of Hd ticiinas: the Greck Vnristins as were driven out and the convent wa: por. Althou hit was restored to Chris- tian possession by the Tartars, the conven has never since exercised any greatinfluence among the rat aa believers of the Crimea. The monks there live in great poverty, work- ing the lands w hich belongto the institution. The newspaper Arim~ of “Kharkov strongly advocates that that historical institution be restored to a dignified position on the occasion of its thousandth anniversary. Ta Natuve gives an account of a remark- able fig tree frowing in Brittany, near St. Pol-de-Leon. It isnot more than five to six yards high, but it covers an area of about 480 square yards. The spreadin branches rest on props, which cause it to orm avenues, one of which is thirty-four yards long. Very little could be learnt of the history of the trees” An ekhl fariner ~~ he had always known it asit is now, and all the information he could give alout the yield of figs was that fortwo or three months fn each year it gave an abundant supply for all who wanted them, and there Were more than were wanted. Savary, who was sentenced to death st the murder of a woman in the Pas de Ca ais, was executed on 1 Sunday morning at Montreuil-sur- Mer_The-eriminal-comlticle- et hinself with courage till he reached the — of the guillotine. He then turned dead- y pale. When the executioner's assistants seixod him he strugeled violently-for-sever- al secouds. He was, nevertheless, quickly mastered, but when the knife was on the point of falling hebit the executioner's hand. ~ There has recently been shown at Port Elizabeth a photo of, perhaps the ge re- markable cheque ever drawn. It was on the Kimberley branch of the Cape of Good Hope Bank, and made out for the nice little sum of £5,338,650. This passed by the De Beers Mining Company at the time of the amalgamation: of the Kim- rley mines, The announcement that the Australians are onthe eve of sending one more expedi- tion in search of some tidings of the Grape lost party of Ludwi ig Leichhardt is evidence of the extent to which this niystery of the Antipodes has affected the imagination of our fellow-countiyinen in the far South, It is their one romance, and they make much ofit. Move than forty-two years have pass- after party has set out in 2 search of him, and again and again reports have reached ae settlements of bushmen havi ing come u ‘traces believed to be those of the vanis Sad pioncer. Writing under date of Suty 28 a Sidney cor peepentieatt says :—Last week, under the New Land Act, a very large area of land w offered ta the people, and already nearly r quarter of a million. acres havebeen taken up. Next week aiiother lot is to be offered to the public, and if one may judge by the rush last week, a very large quantity will be selected, The squatter must now move westwards, as pe le uae oe takes his place over large areas of land. sis a ‘* forward movement” for New South ‘W ales ; ‘the king lives by the} field, as she Old Book reminds os and the | niore the land is really cultivated t ie tter | for all classes in the community. it we may | judge from the eager demand for land, chars must be a large number of men ready to till the soi | J aillolet, the little village near Rouen, has | en the scene of a terrible tragedy. fanily of three persons—father, mother, and | n imbecile daughter, -who was about 25 | years of age, have been killed. No one eo exactly how the deaths were caused, bee the story current among the neighbors | 8 that the mother, affected by the misfor- | cone of having a ee daughter, gradual- | ly lost her reason. While hee husband was | in the fields at work, and the neighbors were j Fon enjoying themselves at a village fete, she | took a revolver and, after shooting her off- | spring dead, fired through her own heart. | When the husband returned and saw what had been done, he also took u and blew out his brains, lice have been able to do is to state the fact of the discovery of the body to the proper author- ities. Captain Phomas of the Catherine bag str which has returned to San Francise ‘om Sibesia, gave a harrowing account “t the sufferings ont a batch of Russian exile, whom he saw being taken to Saghalien Island. They ware of both sexes and of all ages, and m and Were driven alon rivers, with hiasy whipslikea fer cattle. Many old men feli exhausted tothe ground, and were shot by the Griversi: eis had sg ay thus to dispose of — Shr a dropped fo fatigue. Wives heir siands killed and sa tl their daughters assaulted without having the power to inter- Thomas described the cells in which. are confined as disgustingly filthy. ice have made a clever ca ture. snes 'y of 17 eee sea denly left her home with a you Vy per money to the value of pagelot: the property of her father. ion was a student of Brunn, and UThe young lady had put on male e, and the pair entered their names in the sitor’ books at hotels as the ‘* brothers Hohentels ™% The capture was @ while U t Her just 22, he youug man was ppd te to cash a housand florin note at. a bureau of money if Seven thoaaand five ebsrigh ts florins were found in possession of hint contathing These they hac poison, purchased at Carisbad, were they stayed for ak eight days. A telegram from Calai3 reports thata British officer named Percy Smith behaved with great energy and devotion at the time the recent accident to the Paris-Calais express, when the train ran off the line near slaiees The officer lent the most ready and effectual assistance in curry ingout the menas- ures required for averting further disaster, and preventin another train from Paris running into the carriages of the express remained on the liac. During the other night, on the Paris- Lyon,Mediterranec lin heyond Lyons, the nighteXpress, whilerunning at a specd of 60 kilometrésan hour, etvuck a cast of alcohol thatshad dropped from a-goodstrain close to Renee e. The cask got ‘amashed: and the al- cohol caught fire from the locomotive, which was immediately enveloped ina column of blue flame. The driver and stoker were badly burned. | The latter jumpe 2d from the engine betore it stopped, and had several ribs broken Ae = my The Ministry of Wir has decided to try the experiments of regular bicycle services in connection with every regiment of the army, and & trained dogs. This year com- panies of velocipedists will be formed at sev- eral posts, and if their services prove desir- able in the course of three years, such com- panies will be formed at all the military posta of the empire. So also will -the services of trained dogs he tried in the nlvance Yards for the training of the animals will be ht ished at Dinaburz ; or at Kovno. According to the latest reports, the cleven hospitals of St. Petersburg ‘contain 4,900 eis. In three of these hospitals there are ,220beds for psychical infirmities, which are aeays fully occupied. A large number of invalids of this class have to wa't lon for their turn to get accomodations at the hos- itals. For contagious diseases there are 369 beds, and for all other kinds of invalids there are 2,550 beds ja large number of the latter are set apart for ucute surgical cases, There are almost no accommodations for chronic diseases, e lying-in departments of the city hospitals eh been closed alte- gether this year, while no «arrangements have been made to enlarge proportionally the facilities of the lying-in hospitals, Prof. M. Pozdneyeff of the St. Petersburg Univ ersity has discovnaed in the Natioftal dente of ‘he Chinese tongue, 161 written leayveson Chinese paper. It bears the inscription ; ‘tA Collection—of- Words,” and contains a large vocabulary of Mand joo ep and roots, Accarding tothe opinion the Professor, the voeabulary ais be en compiled bys % committee of scholars at the order ofthe firs: emperor of the sixthdynasty, in ‘the heer yee of his accession to the throne. : In the schools of rage throughout, a Russian empire dancing courses have bee introduced and made obligatory. This, s ns Novoye Vremya, is arenewal oi the methods of instructing young officers in preserving a graceful posture in action as well as in re- pose, which was prev alent in the sevens teenth and eighteenth centuries, when danc- ing lessons took the ace of symnastic exercises, In Russia it was introduced by Peter the Great. An anti-moneyesical sian paper published in Zurich satin “While under the benignsway of tite Czar in- dustry and commercial enterprise is-driven out of the country, the coming gener ation of wilitary commanders is to be taught salon manners and how me cut polite capers in the presence of ladie: A gentieman who has been visiting recent- ly the Mormon colony at Lee's Creek in the ( naiien Northwest say: sthe! Mon.on8 there do not practise ploygamy and ar2 thrifty and enterprising settlers. One of the main charges preferred against them by the leaders of Gentile society is that ‘they never epend acent-over-a bar: Another” is that “ they have reduced the price of hay to $20 a ton, butter from 40 cents to 20 cents a pound, and potatoes from 6 cents a pound to 75 cents a bushel,” _Furthermore, “ when ; buying a imeal at the very positive pley gamy Annie not exist among them. They themselves say that while they regard polygamy as scriptural, they do not practise it in this country and do not intend 50. meeting of Moscow merchants on line fai of Nijhni-Novgorod the question was broached why the Russian cotton fabrics , | creat vie with those of Engla.d in the mar- | ket of Persia, It was shown that the qual- ity of the Russian goods was superior to that of England, but that the English manufact- urers know better how to pack and _to ship their goods, so that they arrive in Persia resh and nice, while the goods from Mos- vin get spoiled and unmurketable on the To prove this a bale of cotton goods ' a ie ordered froin Liverpool. When the bale’ arrived in Nijhni-Novgorod it was opened | n efore a commission of mexchéatt, and the ods therein were found as fresh and as nice as if Rony had just come cut of the fac- ory. The Moscow manufacturers have therefore adopted a resuluticns ti ie their goes s for the Persian markets in the English The Ceylon Observer says:—A merchant has been telling us of some very fine and valuable precious stones he has just seen | casually in the heade of a well-known! Moorman dealer before he iad transmitted | the same for sale to Messrs. Arbuthnot, Lathom, & Co., Landon. The. finest at all ! some valued at £300 to £500 Live Steck in Ireland. mmense increase of late in live stock. Harasd and mules, the number of which is about the same esi ee of horses in Ontario, = ti ll, tario > has Bat ew but Ireland 213,044 have — she live stock the increase in enor- mous. Cattle, of which os pone base has early twice as many as Ontario, are- more numer- ous by 146,579 than a year ago. Poultry, ot which Ireland has now more than twice many as beat el ag ‘show a guin of 354,502, or more t rcent. Sheep, a whic! land has E asaily three times as as Ontario, have added to their num- "bers 534,618, or about sixteen per cent., and pigs twice as numerous as here, have increas- ed in one year ty 189,609, or twelve per cent. These increases, which have taken place in the face of an increased demand from Bogiand, ee few parallels anywhere else in the and fortunately most of the hinds of | ee stock affected by them de- pend mainly on other cro _ potatoes, muroogtt them on turnips, and mangels, rops not seriously injured ie the weather, ane w hich occupy in Ireland three times aa many acres as in Ontario and relatively e eer greater area i portion to the total amount of land ped a cultivation, for Treland has but two-thirds as many acres in ficlis" as Ontario. Altogether then, even should the potato crop turn out as short as in 1879, the agricultural outlook is not on the whole as scrious as it was then. —_ Made Whole by Praycr. Freeront, Illinois.—A most mark- able case of alleged faith cure pi thia ee! is the uppermost topic of conversation. plished. sick. cuoues une: septs avail, and she sanidly 6 grew srday she was very near death’s door, and the doctors declared it wis impos- ; sible ¢ her. 4 o'clock in the alter noon te oa took of ch last sacrament ac cording to the rites of the Methodist sitet, R She then told those about her that between the hours of 6 and 9 o'clock that ee ee supernatural would About 2 o'clock in the night ie eiilted “all those around her to her bedside and gave then a last aig She lay quietly as though sleepi hy the fergie her slight slumber in which she had fallen she asked her to pray. Soon alter Miss Dubs requested all the gentlemen to retire from the room. She then arose from her bed and walked across the room several times and soon had dressed herself. Then all went into the-dining-room, where lunch had been spread, of which Miss Dubs partook most heartily. She pee E up during the balance of the night, ta pray ed and enjoyed herself “as though she nad never been sick. 2 5 j . Starving Crows Befricnided by Gulls. One ‘bitterly colt day ,’ said an old raveller, ‘* we—a ship us—were lying.at-the whack as Autopia: The—river— was frozen ; we were waiting forthe ice to be eak. We were perishing with ennui. That is how we got to watching the crows, These poor things were dying of starvation, aud they could not resist the temptation to hover about the ship. “ They could not get the food ont of the water, but stood on the blocks of ice andlooked cvinaats down into the waves at the drifting bits of refuse, The poor black wretches could not stand still on the ice or their feet would have frozen fast, so they shifted from one leg to.another in a manner which gave them the appearance of dancing. “ All about, with screams and flapping of wings, flew a flock of gulls, snatching the fool from the water and fighting 3 in fierce good fellowship, Soon we noticed a sort of understanding Letween the black birds and the white ones. Fora while the sable birds pranced and dane<tl, prey r en pick- ing up bits of food and desp in reach of their starving aa sibors: And we all looked on and> wonderec creatures helping each other in their sere distress, and-pondered on the language of | those creatures we arrogantly call dumb,” The number of wealthy Americans who rent moors and fishings in Scotland if great- ly on the increase, A financially gifted man 1 New York reckons. the ahah scan ek saute by his countrymen .at_no_less--than £600, : Seat this for rent big which certainly pits not cover half the outlay. in- curred by the modern r So much money for shootin fishin credible, but it is also Suhiooting and an for a social position. ‘Then the expen of this large amount of cash Se incoeanrehiee sible.—New York Sporting World. What with $180,000,000 additional reqnir- ed to complete the undertaking, and what with the probability that, when com ete the work would be rendered valueless by an earthquake or a th of which the region is subject, the atlagk for the Panama Canal is yot very encou raging. In view of | these things itis not likely that the investors i who were induced to go into this scheme will | in the future place much confidence in the 'enginecring alilities of their distinguished | countryman who will probably be represent- Ved to posters as the author of De pares ‘great d Last week a boy named T Bunting: aged Il years, living in Gordon Strect, Preston, dis- appeared in a mysterious manner. Notwith- ating inquiry, his whereabouts could »¢ ascertained. On Monday it leaked boat that he had been swinging ona on Yay uspended from a jib crane near the canal. Some other boys who were with him swun , the jib over the canal, om the boy dropped | into the water an wned. His | panions decided not to tell anyone what ad happened, and it was not until Monday night on secret leaked out. An absurd misconception issaid to have occurred during the siege of Sebastopol, when ardsman was 1 an English Gui ‘brought up” for having giving a severe thrashing toa | From ch ier, the Englishman’s only) xplanation bei Lone so I just ’ad to give it 'im.” ! on inquiry shite the Guardsman accost- e¢ supposed to be uzzied Frenchman rment, comment?” for “Come on !”— “Come o nyo , “if you will ‘ave it !’—and forth- | with the fisticuffs began in carnest, 9”