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__the skin had _been-xposed-to-the-weather, as * LOPPY OFFICIALLY DEAD. 'The Execution Surceons Make their Keport im Writing. A da York despatch says: Warden Brown, of Sing Sing, sent to the: Deputy County Clerk to-day the certificate of death and autopsy on the body of Martin D. Loppy, executed on December 7. Dra. Me- at sae and Ward report that there was a of fotr brief contacts, occupying in ot 5 52 seconds, The first lasted 15 seconds second 11 seconds, the third 154 pee the last 104 seconds. There were brief intervals between each contact to permit of the wetting of the electrodes. The read- ings taken by Prof. Dandy from the volt meter indicated a pressure of 1,716 volts wi nearly seven amperes. An examination was made of the wrist pulse and the ausculation of the heart «after the last con- tact. The prisoner was peng: dead at 12-05. The first contact took place at iI. 52-23. '* Death," the physicians say, "was apparently instantaneous and pain- "t- Accompanying the certificate is = iong statement of the autopsy by Dr. Ira Van Gesion, who conducted it. " Rigor mortis," he. says, " was almost completely if not entirely absent except in the. right leg." The mouth and nostrils, according -.to Dr. "VanGiegon, were perfectly natural and showed 'no traces of the extrusion of fluids or © 'ty material. The eyeball of the only ey: at Loppy had-was in a perfect state. 'adhere were no discolorations except at the knee, where the electrode was applied, and on the cheeks, where there were marks corresponding with the restraining straps. On the knee there wa a superficial reddish- ness about 34 by 5 inches, but the true skin re no marks. r the head electrode there were no marks. 'he interior of the mouth wag normal, and ja one and teeth showed no signs 'of in were Critically arasiinadt pou no indications found. In comparing Loppy's death with that of th r others executed in Sing Sing, Dr. VanGieson says ao current of 1,400 to 1,600 volts does no damage to any of the internal organs, tissues, or muscles, The local thermic effects were limited:to the outer scarf skin, which, when removed, resembled an ordinary water-blister. Where that on the forehead and scalp, no blistering takes place. | NOT A SOUL SAVED. Wreek of a Hussian Barqhe and Loss of Al on Board. A New York despatch says: Captain] w Dexter, of the barque Kentingen, at this port from London, reports that in a terrific gale off the mouth of the Thames a Russian barque, having a crew of 26 men, dragged her anchor and collided with the Kentigern. The Russian barque's jibboom was broken off, leaving a hole in her aull through which the sea poured. Vhe Russian craft then swung erp side the Kentigern, where she remained f few minutes. The shock of the callision brought all hands on deck on both v n the Russian barque all was confusion and fright, some of the crew crying out in desparing voices. ring beacon lights others could be seen kneeling with uplifted hands praying to be preserved from death, as the fierce gale swept over the vessels, and Jashed their sides with huge waves. In the short tine the vessels were together Captain Dexter threw out ropes and shouted tothe Russian captain and crew to catch them and clamber on board the Kentigern, but they did not seem to under- stand 'him, and made no attempt to get on rd. Shortly after the Russian barque swung astern, and the gale drove her on the rocks, where she broke and began to settle. Big seas broke over her and tumbled upon her decks, washing away several of the crew, and in a short time the barque gave a lurch and went to the bottor m, carrying all hands with her. Tn such a sea no boat could be lowered, and not a single soul escaped from the ill-fated barque. = = 2 vo AG. EL AINE'S WIFE. She Alleczes Her Rastand Persecetes Her With Detectives. A New York despatch says: Mra. J. G. Blaine has found it necessary to ask the protection of the police against the detective who, she says, her husband has put on her t Mrs. Blaine is in this city attending a referee's hearing in her suit for divorce. She is reyistered at the New York hotel. No sooner had she been installed in the hotel, sbe tells Inspector Brynes, than private detectives began to swarm about her, giving her no peace. They even guestione:) the cabman that drove her to the referee » ottice us to where she went and when. The cabman told her of it. At the same time it was discovered that a woman guest, registered in the hotel on the sa floor as she, wasa spy. This woman tried in every way to induce the servants to tell her eve "rything they saw or heard about Mrs Blaine. She expressed a wish to have her room changed, and when she heard that Mrs. Blaine was going away she asked to be ailowed to lock at her room. Mrs. Blaine beheves that her object was to see if there were any letters'lying around loose. Mrs. Blaine went into a fit of hysterics when these things were made known to her. She was closeted with the inspector for a full hour yesterday. MOTHER AND CHILD. Double Murder in Brooklyn for Purposes of Robber. A Brooklyn despatch says : An atrocious murder, in which a mother and child were the viclimns, and robbe-y, se far as can be learned, the ouly incentive " was committed this morning on the third floor of the tene- ment No. 35 Stagy street. Mrs. Max Black, aged 334 years, and her little boy Is 4 years, were the victims. head was crushed beyond recognition. boy was still breathing when Black came home from his day's work and discovered the crime. Exactly $150-in bills were miss- ing from a drawer in the room. The boy was taken to the St. Catharines hospital, whose doctors say he cannot recover. The police are without-a clue as to who the murderer is, but they suspect it was some one familiar with the house, and undoubtedly one who knew the family. Louis P. rang, whose chromos have beauti- fied many an artless cottage wall, worked for a whole year in Boston, whena beginner, The muscles} ONTARIO_FRUIT--GROWERS.- Evaporated Fralts. i "Mr. L. B. Rice, of Port Huron, Mich. ; read an excellent paper on " Money in Evaporated Fruits." He said iit ery that there was money in evaporated frui if the proper means _-- taken to o it ont In the first place it w; ecessary to esti- mate carefully the phere of work tobedone evaporated. ea Tot of information as to the building of Sestak and how to run them, Mr. A. J. Rice, Sodus, N. Y., gave his experience at oe during the past twenty years. - A barrel of Baldwin wd rd would make 21 pounds ot evaporated fruit, bringing $1.26 clear, and the skins and cores would make 13 pounds and bring 14 cents a pound. So the barrel of culls}t "lic, brought $1.45 at the lowest estim the Rice also gave useful a as cost of evaporators and the Farm Norticulture. ' "* Horticulture from a Farmer's Stand- int" was then taken up by Mr. John Ke rnighan, of Benmiller, Huron county. On every well-regulated farm, he said, there should be an orchard, kitchen vegetable and fruit garden and lawn. First he placed = farm, next the orchard, then the ga the lawn, a in his mind all were 'necessary to rfect farm. The greater part of the orchard as be given to the apple. io try farm not more than five acres --o be given to orchard, and threé-foufths of the part given to apples sho iven to winter varieties. Ne ples he would grow plums, then pears. me would place Cherries third on the list, but to him they were too much trouble in picking and took much*time in a very busy season. Peaches he would place after pears. He alluded to the many drawbacks to fruit growing--the troubles that. befell the trees and those which attacked the fruit. He a a the necessity of not undertaking uch in the way of horticulture, but duine well what was undertaken. The lawn,--he garden and ornamental trees. Small Freits, A paper on ' Small fruits for the busi- ness man," by Mr. Alex. Saunders, of Goderich, was read by the secretary, Mr. Saunders not being preseat. Mr. Saunders held that the cultivati> of small fruit ould always repay the grower for the tine spent upon it. The paper dealt with straw- berries, raspberries, gooseberries and grapes, and touched on plums, peers, crabapples and apples. It advised the members to go in for sinall fruits asa means of pleasure, and it would be found to bea means of profit as wel Mr. John Richards, of Ancaster, said he had been growing small fruits for eight pores and gave particularattention to straw- tries and found that much improvement could be made on the old style of berries. His experience was that the large berries paid well. From a sixth ofan acre he made $75-from fruit and $140 fron p.ants in one season. He had found by experience that ten acres of land was as much as could be worked to pay if devoted to small fruits. He found the Jessie and Bubach to be the best varieties in quality. Mr.- Richards was plied with questions relating toothers. Mr. Race asked if the Jessie could be relied upon, Richards replying that it was not reliableand for that reason he was getting rid of his vines. The Haverland and Saunders he recommended. Mr. Craig, of the Ottawa Experimental Farm, said he found the Jessie to have the fault complained of by Messrs. Race and Richards. He gave itas his opinion that the varieties of stawberries should not be multiplied. Tree Lifting and Pianting. Mr. D. Nicol, of Cataraqui, read a short paperon * Lifting, Planting and Trans- planting Trees." He attrbuted a great deal of the failure of trees to the lifting and Planting. large trees was also the cause of a good deal of failure. Large trees could be success- fully supplied if those who wanted them were willing to go tothe heavy expense of lifting, and even them the large trees mad slow progress in comparison with trees transplanted at the age of two years. Bg trees transplanted were also liable to be blown over. ag d ees, he said, rnined, by rough handling In where the frost goes to 30 = % > below zero the trees transplanted in the fall were generally winter killed, but in milder climates the planting might be done in the fall. the discussion which followed, Mr. Morris heli that a great deal] of the loss of trees was due to the fact that the planters did not pack the seil sufficiently. When the tree is put in and the hole two-thirds filled, the earth should be packed as firmly as if it had been pounded and the rest filled in with ooser earth. In regard to pears particularly, he advised planting in the fall. Non-Prodactive Orchards, Mr. F. G. H. Patterson read a paper on '*Some of the Causes of Non-Productive- ness of Apple Orchards." He argued that the statement made thatit would not be well ifthe apple orehards were more pro- ductive was false. Canada eould not pro- duce too many apples. Many orchards did not pay because of the lack of the two "q's," quality and quantity. The leading cause of unfrnitfulness was starvation. Farmers too often went on planting. crops on their orchards, just as if there were no trees there. The wonder was not that the yield was small, but that the _-- lived at all with such treatment. Nota single crop of rye, oats or wheat, he claimed, should be takin from the land on which was an orchard. The use of the land, however, need not be lost. Roots, corn, peas, buck- wheat, hay, pasture and even an occasional crop of barley could be raised with benefit to the young orchard, if accompanied by a judicious use of manure. The second grea cauee of non- productivenes was the soil or locality Bie cawuitable. Before planting -- study these points ng growers lly. The t cause was the too great vigor and poe of wood. Many well-mantred and well- cultivated orchards failed to yield largely, ey in deep loamy soil. As remedies Mr. Patter en allowing orchards to go a considerable period ; heading the i in thoroughly ; id;--should--include «flower ] The lifting and transplanting of} , for a hundred dollars and was glad to digging a trench on one side cf each tree and cutting | every-root tobe found there. The last mentioned process, he said, wokld often cure barrennes when nothin responsible for some non-prod though it should not be, as the easily be got rid of. Over and under prun- te somewhat to non-productive- test and commonest cause of all was the first mentioned--starvation. A very iriteresting discussion followed, in which it was brought out that it would not be hurtful to grow rye in 'the orchard so long as the crop was not taken off, but]? plowed in to improve the soil. CAN Now w MABRY. Lord Hoertington and th the Duchess of Man- chester. e Duke of Devonshire's death will at 'nit enable his son, Lord Hartington, to legalize the somewhat peculiar relationa latter has been Lord Hartington's social and@political Egéria for many a long year, and 60 great was the constancy of the lord to the duchess that English sociaty toler- ated, both, publicly and privately, the intimacy between the two to such an extent that no one would haveever dreamt of being guilty of committing the solecism of in- viting the one without the other. Every dinner at which the Duchess was resent was certain to be attended by Lord artington, who was a fellow guest of hers at each country house which she visited. Her bushand, the Duke of Manchester, a g natured, harmless and innoffensive creature, died nearly two years and marriage would have taken place between the widow, and the Marquis last spring it. not been for the obstacle raised by Lord Hartington's aged father, the Duke of Devonshire, who viewed with the utmost disfavor the projected union. The couple 'thtrefore decided io postpone the ceremony until his death, and 1 suppose that within a short time we shall see that once famous beauty, the Duchess of Manchester, bloss oming forth as Duchess of Devonshire and as mistress of that quaint old palace, Devon: shire p Souse, j in Picadilly. THE GIFT SEASON. Some Practical Advice in Eegard to the Making of Presents. About this time of year the av erage man earns for the wealth of Astor or Gould that e might afford to purchase Christmas gifts for his family and friends. ere is a pleasure in giving which prompts a man to throw expense to the dogs and bankrupt himself by buying right and left until he wearies from sheer exhaustion. That is one way of doing it, or rather over-doing it, but there is a common-senge middle course which can be safely folluwe by people of moderate means. Before making your Christmas pure " find out what you owe and pay it, Settle up the little accounts of the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker, and then, with an easy conscience, go alitad prov iding for your friends. Go in for quahtity, or rather multiplicity. It is better to remember many with modest tokens than few with costly ones, If an outlay of five cents will convince a friend of your good will, it will be a great result achieved at small cost. Do not distribute your gifts among people who do not need them, do not want them and who regard the action as an intrusion. Remember that a barrel of flour is of more use toa poor man than an embroidered piano cover Le practical in your selection, and eve if you should not receive @ single present in return you will enjoy the satisfaction, of haviug added to the happiness of others. -- Philade Iphia News. Proverbial Silence Broken. ""What is to be your place at dinner ?" asked Bivalve of its brother oyster. 'In a select circle, I hope," returned Half Shell ; "I should be awfully cut up if I had to go in with everything in the common tew. @n a Cold Day. Buffalo News: He--Thereis a good deal to be gaid in favor of cremation. She (shivering)--Yes, .indeed. clean, and nice and--warm. It's 50 What He Can Get. New York Herald: V be you take notes whenyou preach, s Country parson (eighing)--W rhen T can get em. But in this parish it's mostly garden truck and a donation. How ts This, Mr. Erown ? Rochester Herald : Jamaica has come in under the reciprocity tent before the procla- mation of the president orders rain for all who don't. Pamir is called " the roof of the world." The other powers will have to put Up @ sign --in Russian--" Ke€p off the roof." It is no crime to get drunk, and a pai man has no right to arrest a man woman for simply being drunk, if Jadge Wartele's interpretation of the law is apa rect. nthe Court of Queen's Bench a erieesl on Thursday he quashed the con- viction of one Zotique Gauthier, who was arrested and convicted on a charge of being drunk. The conviction was under section 8 of the Vagrancy Act, which reads; '* Cavse a disturbance in any street or highway by screaming, swearing, or singing, or by being drunk, or by im ding or incommoding peaceful passengers." The judge held that there was no evidence of Gauthier arene a disturbance the evidence as to being drunk not conclusive. His » Locale also held that the fact of a man being merely drank, while he was making no ---- was not an offence in the eyes of th although it was a moral offence. Mr. Cahill might make a note of this, '* What is the matter with your clerk this morning? He seems very much put out." 'So he is. I've just discharged him. rj Thomas S. Gains, a negro confined in the penitentiary at Jackson, Mich., to be a man of wonderful sensation abil:ty. Whenever he addresses an audience in 1 prison chapel he holds his hearers spell- 'L California' 8 wine crop this year will equal a quart for every man woman and chil is declared f NEWS 8 THE WEEK, Emperor Francis cs Joop of Austria is ill, and, his condition is causing on. C. P. Brown, sr a of Public ren of Manitoba, died at Winnipeg yes- y- East Bruce Reformers have re-nominated Mr. Truax as candidate ioe the House of Commons. The corporation of iin has voted 2,500 guineas asa wedding present to Prince Albert Victor. ee Conservatives yesterday nomin- ated E. A. organ, of Sorel, Que., as their nadine W. Hausar was yesteniay elected Presi- M. Welti, resign and Orangeman in Canada, died in Ki ston yesterday, aged 96. Mr. John Charlton addressed a large audience in the Y. M. C A. Hall,' Baffalo, last night on Canadien relations. A well-dressed man commiftéd suicide with a revolver in St! Stephen' 2 pCothodral, Vienna, during service yester The South Grey electipn trial rewulted in all the charges being dismissed except one, on which -- was reserved. Major R. McLennan, Conserva- tive M. P. :* Glengatry, was unseated bite for treating of voters by an agent. ing- Mr. Dunbar Barton, ~ Unionist, elected .yesterday to Parliament for the middle division of Armagh. was un- oP: At a Spanish Cabinet Council yesterdayit was decided to treble the import duties ona number of articles whichare imported chiefly from France. The boiler in Collett's saw mill, Ridge- ville, Ind., exploded yesterday, killing Wm. Wise, Wm. Collett and Jas. Clawson, an rma injuring Isaac Nicholson and Oscar on Baron Fejervary, the Hangarian Minis- er of National Defence, has resigned in Lopter to ght a duel with Deputy Ugron, who has publicly expressed doubts of the Baron's courage. The Provincial Government has expressed its approval of the proposition to sell Ash- bridge's Marsh, but on the understanding that payments of $10,000 will be made to the Government until the principal sum of $200,000 is paid. A cable relates a singular accident to the Berlin and Coblentz express yesterday. A sevepe gale overturned three of the coaches, ith result that one pomenyt was killed and veral were injure It is reported the several missionsyitions on the Yang-tse-Kiang are menaced. More men-of-war are imperatiysly necessary in order to protect the niyef. Suropean residents, having formed themselves into a defence league, have arme John Leahy, his wife and grandson, were found dead in a lodging -house at wma near Cork, Ireland, yesterday morning They died from the" effects o poiso Opinion is about equally divided as to whether it is a case of suicide or murder. proclamation restoring the duties on sugar, coffee, tea. and molasses coming from, the soviet which have not negotiated reci- ity treaties with the United States. This will practically exclude Venezucla coffee. The spinners held an inmense meeting at Manchester last night. They discussed their grievances, and finally resolved to strike unless masters made improve- ments in the conditions of work. They have it in their power tostop every loom in Manchester. W. H. Winans, a wealthy farmer, promi- nent in church, social aad political circles, in Franklin, Pa, was arrested last night on acharge of burglary. a eon heavy robberies were committed in Venango ana surrounding counties, and a man named Brooks was arrested. I: is alleged he made a confession implicating Winans. The arrest hae coonted & sengation. The question of further operations on the part of the British troops against the Hunza- Niger tribesmen in the vicinity of er, has 8 weather. w has fallen at Sse Bn and in the surrounding country to such an extent that military operations are impos- sible. e officers ani n who were wounded in the recent storming and cap- ture of Fort Nilt and the subsequent pur- suit of the tribesmen in the mountains are still making good pregress toward re- covery. ' Jealousy probably never instigated a murder under stranger circumstances than in a tragedy which occurred in Stellin yes- terday: The funeral o& Master Tinsmith Gottschalk was being conducted in the redon cemetery, wha a tinker named at the sight of her weepng for thedeparted, and, drawing a knife,he eprang forward and plunged the blade iito her breast. The unfortunate woman fel by the side of - open grave mortally woinded. The was arreste A violent earthqiake shock oat in Sicily rari. The Deep W aoe rik one ention was concluded at Detroit yete! Chancellor Von Caprwi has been made a Count by the Gerinan Hmperor. An old man was instantly killed last night by "alling on the ice at St. Joseph de Levis. The German commecial treaties were read athird time in the Reichstag yes- S y- Halton Liberals will neet at Milton on Wednesday next to noninate a candidate for the Commons. The application of Jarvis to be incorpor- ated asa village has bees refused by Haldi- mand County Council. The French Institut: has granted the Cuvier prize o} tothe United States Geological Surv ey for 'ts excellence of its work, An English farmer wh> bought land near Frederiction, N. just brought his in | family out, consisting of fifteen daughters. a United States. a ' Me fear eee asran It is said the young me: of the neighbor- ~- John Lewis, said to be the oldest Mason | * President Harrison has decided to issue ar hood have not done a stroke of work since the girls arrived. The Russian treasury has voted 10, 000, - 000 roubles for relief works to afford assist- ance to the peasantry in the faentonatetcien districts. South Victoria Reformers will mee {convention at Lindsay on Wednesday ant to select a candidate for the vacancy in the Commons. A late case of wheat sowing is reported from the ee of Tiny, near Highland Point. Mr. C. Quesnelle sowed four bushels at this place on December 5th. A Kingston syndicate is having a large steamer built at Builalo to run between that city and Grand Island with summer excur- sions. She will accommodate 1,200 passen- dent of the Swiss Confederation, in place of | 5°" A crowd of 3,000 people tried to get an opportunity to y their taxes at Cincin- nati yesterday in order to eave a discount. ifty people were badly injured in the crush. John Lee, who, as an cmployee of the harbor commissioners, was out on Toronto Bay in a boat gathering in the buoys about the lake yesterday, ad into the bay and ~pwas drown The market of Exeter, Oxt., is to be moved from its present site to the Town Hall. grounds, nearer the centre of the village, as the result of the by-law carried by popular vote yesterday. a rumor that Mr. George T. » of ag will oppose Mr. M. C. Ceaewan for t Commons in West was | Huron, but Mr. Blackstock is hardly likely to engage in such a hopeless contést. A scheme is being pushed for the con- struction of a_large canal from the Missis- sippi and St. Croix Rivers to Lake Superior. The object is to make a direct santhromee from St. Paul to both New Orleans and Liverpool. There is a disease among cattle in Barrie district. It manifests itself by lumps in the animal's throat, which in an advanced state becomes raw and sore to ihe touch. It is said that beef thus dieeased is inimical to health. --Fhe Clerk of the Crown in Chancery has this week received the revised meen, | lists of the following electoral divisions : Both- well, Brockville, Lennox, Lincoln and Niagara, South Middlesex, -- and Parry Sound, North Norfolk, East North- umberland, 'Prescott, North Simcoe, East Toronto, W ao, Montmorency and Montreal Cent Some time agoa German civil engineer made an artificial mineral spring near Munich, which he doctored every mornin with iodine until the curative character b its waters obtained wide spread renown, and the stock company, of which the engincer was the head, was coining money ; now the ingenious swindle has come to grief, and hundreds of stockholiers are heavy losers. Some time since a man named Roland went to work in the woods near Sundridge. His wife, who lives sixteen miles north of Sarrie, learnin that he was frozen to death, telegraphed Roland's late employer-to have his remains sent down there. She, with a few friends, to receive the corpse, but a telegram w sent instead, stating that while the missing © there was no knowledge of b his death. Later, however, his y was found. He seems to have 'been frozen to death near the Sun- dridge railway station. SHOWING A GUEST OUT. How to Seothe pn Flatter a Departing Can there be a ethics way in such an ordinary performance as showing a guest out! Certainly there is. It isthe way the American servant knoweth not. She goes e door = an indecent haste oat and before you have catherate our self- respect and your skirts, while your heel is still upon the door sill, the snap of the knob is heard bebind you. Lucky if you don't hear the sound of the Y tele an in the socket, as if you were a tramp ora book eThe English maid knows how to make the act beautiful. here, is an exquisite air of deference and respect, as she opens the door, even a touch of regret in her manner that she should be opening the door for your departure, snatentt-ed for vourentrance. And then comes the gentlest tact of all. You never hear an 'English housemaid close the door behind you. She holds it open until you have descended thesteps, at least ; pacers until you are quite upon the st. treet, she closes jt so softly that the click the latch never comes to your ear. You are inexpressibly soothed and flattered, and you step off feeling that the gracious tact of the mistress is most charming where it has revealed itself in the instruction that has taught is maid to be gracious. -- Pitfebury Dispatel "So ig Kg has been starring as an actor, x unter?" "Yes." Do wed me al sbout him ! - Who is supporting According pa recent statistics there are ,000 women in Germany who earn their own living, a greater number than is to be found in any other nation. Any one can add strength and weight to° his body by salting well with olive oil aftez a warm baths" aré particujatly beneficial to delicate children. < An ordinance was introduced in the = common council' Tuesday evening mad "sags a be _ _ boiling of any more wooden wa Padkiel, ry Englishiazn who is on int mate with the stars, predicts th death of an empress or a Novem Mr. Dudelet--I have great talent, Miss Caustic, and could do wonderful things it 1 only hada mind to.. Miss Caustic--Yes you only lack thé mind. Philadelphia is one of t peanut markets of the world, oan "det distributing 750,000 bushels of the. fascinating ghoobers a year. failu No man is so ignorant queen nex that you cannot learn something from him. . accordingly went to Barrie But this year the crop is a Virtual"