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THE WEEK'S NEWS. CAXADA. Charles KMUnd, aped 13, was drowned while bathing at the Cove, London, on Sat- urday. John Bowles, aged 20, was drowned while bathing iu a pond at CudarviUe on Monday. The free public library of St.. John, N.B.. issued over 20,1X10 books taut year, audunly lost two. Col Walker Powell, the Adjutant-Gener- al, i* lying terioualy ill at hi* re*idnce in Ottawa. Two mining experts from the United State* are now investigating the gold ininea at Marmora, Ont. A high school student named John Mac- kenzie wa drowned while bathing at Km card nit on Monday. Tim season's clip of wool in Frontenac county is the finest in five yean Rev. Rphraim Evans, D. D. (Methodist), died in London on Monday night, aged 89 year*. On Sunday last a ton of Mr. R. I. in caster, reeve of Faraday towuihip, was killed by a runaway horse. John dialer, aged 00, in trying to stop a runaway hone on Tuesday in Gait, was run over and instantly killed. The Toronto Methodist Conference, at its closing session on Tuesday, approved the establishment of an order of deaconesses. At the General sessions in Sarnia on Tuesday Andrew Crawford, first deputy reeve, was indicted by thi grand jury for aggravated anna tilt on Miss Frances John- ston. Dr. Fife Fowler, Kingtaon, was on Tues- day, at the meeting of the Ontario Medical Council in Torouto,elected president of that body. The Government revenue S3. Constance tailed from Quebec Monday under sealed orden. She is gone to make a little trouble among the whiskey smugglers in their well known haunts on the lower St. Lawrence. A C. P. R. switchman named Alex. Craig. while coupling cars at Winnipeg, bud his right hand cruilied. Peat resembling very much the Irish article has bran found in the vicinity of Ber- lin, Ont. , in large quantities. Mrs. Daniel Moore, aged 42, was found drowned in a well at St. Thomu -11 Monday. She was married but had no family. Thomas Norquay, M.P. P. for Kildonan, Man., was run over and fatally injured by a C. P. R. locomotivu in Winnipeg ou the S)th inst. Frederick Wing, aged twenty, and Kva Berkin*haw, agedeigbteen, were drnwned while boating on Toronto bay Saturday. The Mackenzie memorial fund for Toronto alone amounts to upward of $IO,OUO. Sev- eral Conservatives arc among the subscrib- ers. Joseph Anderson, aged twenty, was in- stantly killed by filling on a circular saw at K.l/iir Station, Essex County the other day. Dominion Police Inspector O'Leary has arrived at Ottawa from nan Kranoixto with l'n|u.:i. the absconding postmaster of Hull. During the thunderstorm at Russell, Man., on Wednesday night, Mrs. Butcher, living five miles south of the town, waa struck by lightning and instantly killed, A few nights ago a Mrs. Corkey, of Harrie- field, near Kingston, hid t'M in the stove, fearing burglars. In the morning the 9:10 helped to light the lire for break- fast. A Hamilton woman is suing the Ham- ilton Kleetric Light Company for ?2,OOO damages. One ol the company's line re- pairers dropped a pair of pincers on her head. The consecration of Mgr. Einanl, the new Roman Catholic Bishop of Valleytield, took place at Valleyfield last week. There was a large attendant of Buhopn, clergy, and the general public. A farmer named David Bell was killed by lightning in Brant township, county of Bruce, the other day. His horses, which he was) driving, were also killed. He leavea a widow and eight children. Henry Page, who was) found guilty in the Montreal Court of Queen's Bench of swin- dling horse dealers, was sentenced last week by Chief Justioe Lacost to three years' un- pri-oninent in the penitentiary. The Bearer line Lake Superior, which ha* arrived in Montreal on her way from Liver- pool, ran into Halifax to land drafts from Kn^lish. stations forth* regiments then and in Ili-mui. la. Mrs. Hart, R5 years of age, a resident of South London, Ont. , fell under the wheels of her carriage on Wednesday evening, and received injuries from which, it is feared, she will not recover. The Montreal 'true Witness, referring to the recent Orange 'Meeting held in Montre- al, praises the Orangemen for their conduct, and says that while they continue to act in such a way they will never be molested. The shipping interests) of Montreal have presented a memorial to the Board of Trade asking that they will endeavour to bring about the abrogation of maintaining tho lighthouse service of Great Britain. While Thomas Flowers was sawing down a i rce in South Gosfield township the other il.iv the tree split and one part sprung back, striking the man on the head and back, killing him. Flowers formerly lived near Dunnville. Sir Oliver Mowat delivered a lecture the other day at Woodstock on " Christianity and Us Fruit*. " The County Council took advantage of his visit to present him with an address congratulating him upon the honour recently conferred upon him by her Majesty. Nelson Sears, of Aylmer, Ont., bruised his knee on the frozen ground in I >ak< ta laat winter. Ho returned borne about Christmas. Th.! injury grew worse, and amputation waa found necessary in order to save the young man's life, the bone having become diseased. An Indian has been received at Stony Mountain (Man.) jwintcntuiry, wlio is under sentence of death tor killing a medicine man of his tribe, became the latter failed to pre- vent the demise of the prisoner's children when called in to treat them for an illness from which they were suffering. (IKIAT BRITAIN. IV. ]' ,-i-vins were killed and eight injur- i i-y u. ..iimon that took, place early Tues- day morning at the Rishopsgate station of the (ireat Eastern railway, in London. The Irish leaders in the Imperial House of Commons have invite I Hon. Kdward Blake to become a candidate tor an Irish constituency at the approaching general elections. Paderewski, th* pianist, gave a recital in St. James' hall, London, on Tuesday, be- foro a six thousand dollar house. He scored an immense success. Incitement has teen caused in British financial circles by the suspension of the New Oriental Bank, with liabilities of 1,250,000. The St. James' Gazette, of London, say it i* a matter of indifference to Englishmen whi.ili party is in power in America, since both cater for the Irish vote by occasional rmieuesa to Great Britain. The International Miners' Conference wu opened in London on Tuesday. Foreign deletialrs representing 1177 <HXI miner* met the Kn^'luli delegates. An international fe.l enttion of miners desirous of joining the eiglil-hour movement was formed. Since IMfil :!,4ti7,.")lB people have emigrat- ed from Ireland, and last year the United States absorbed 87 per cent, of the emi- grants, only li per ceut. gning to England. The Earldom of Berkeley, having been in abeyance for eighty-two yean, has now been re-established by the success of the claimant to mud hi* taking his seat as a peer of the realm. The outbreak of Pleura-pneumonia in the Lubiirn district of County Antrim has turned out a serious matter. About 70 head of cattle have been slaughtered by or der of the Government Inspector, and a number of others are marked for aimiUr treatment. The disease has manifested it- self on several gru/riu' farms. The prompt steps taken to stamp out the scourge have given great satisfaction to local farmen. It is said that the Duke of York will enter into bis residence at St. James' Palace in the autumn. The apartments which are be- ing prepared for him are those that were in- tended to be placed at the disposal of the late Duke of Clarence, and which for thirty yean were in the possession of the late Duchess of Cambridge. Lord Sackville, who owna property at Stratford on Avon, recently built n barrier across the Avon to exclude the public. On Friday night a party of students from Balliol College )>rki' down the barrier, and they will be prosecuted. The action of the students is regarded favorably by the peo- ple of Stratford, and a public subscription is being raided for their defence when the case comes before the courts. London has a new kensation. The police report that they have in custody a sort of Jack the Kipper, with the difference that he uses poison instead of a knife. His plan of operation win to visit a girl of the unfortu- n.i'e class, and iu the course of his visit to playfully offer her a poisoned globule, whi-h she swallowed with fatal results. Two girls upon whom the poison did not act in- stantaneously made a itlAtvtneut which led to the wretch's arrest. UXITIO TATKS. President Polk ol the Kar.nen' Alliance is dead. The < >sage Indians in Oklahoma are again causing trouble. A heavy shock of earthquake waa felt in various parts of California on Tuesday. Monday night's storm at Chicago cauwd the loss of eight lives and injury to 15 per- sons. The town of (larva, in Seney county, 111., has been wrecked by & cyclone, and several hves have been lost. A million done to the Tuesday. Fifty-three Japanese laborers wero re- ported at San Franciso during toe month of May. Jack Bliss, leader of the Wyoming cattle thieves, has been killed by the pjsso near Arloud, in that state. A Washington despatch intimates that Mr. Chauncey M. Uepew may succeed Mr. Blaine as Secretary of State. President Harrison was renominated at the Republican Convention in Minneapolis last Thursday on the tirst ballot. An electric car was struck by a railroad engine near Wheeling, W. Vs., causing the death of three people. Fourteen men wen; lulled by an exploaion in the Utiitod States navy yard at Mare Island, California, the other morning. King's powder mill, 20 miles from Cincin- nati, was struck by lightning on Tuesday and totally wrecked. One man was killed and several injured. Up to date 59 victim* of the fire and Hood disaster at Titiuville, Pa., have been buried. The loes to property is placed at $1,UOO,000. The excessive heat is adding much to the deaths rate in New York. There wen ItiO death on Monday, ani prostrations are nu- merous. At hay City, Mioh., on Monday, Mrs. (ieorgtt Beaudry took her little boy and girl in her arms and jumped into the river. All three were drowned. At Imperial. Pa., Mrs. Jules Leroy, wife of a coal miner, tried to hasten tin; break- fast po Tuesday by pouring keroeune on the lire. Mrs. Lcroy and her two children were fatally injured. A great Republican ratification meeting was held at the Auditorium, in Chicago, Monday evening. The at tendance and en- thusiasm were " immense." " Living Ku- gards" were voted to Mr. Hlaiu. Nathan John, a farmer, while ploughing in his Held at Canton, Mm*., on Tuesday, waa killed by hailstones. Fruit ami other crops suffered seriously. It in atiid martial law ia to be prod-timed in Wyoming. The rustlers say they will hide iu the mountains and pick off Uncle Sam's soldiers at leisure. Mortimer R. Reynold*, the first child of white parentage born on the original site of Rochester, N.Y., died there lost week. He' was born in 1814, and lived thero all his life. The ship St. Loo sailed from Brooklyn on Saturday with a cargo for the starving Russian peasants. The vessel waa gaily decorated with emblems by the King's Daughters. A* Rochester the olb.3rday Freil Withey, a drunken character who had abuHod his wife most cruelly, waa taken hy a company vi ite^Ubors, duekod in a creek, whipped ' dollar's damage by fire wu waterfront at Baltimore on soundly and ordered to leave town within 24 hours. At Genoa, Ark., on the Cotton Belt R. R., Saturday uight, burglars entered the office of the Bodoaw Lumber Company, opened the safe, and carried away $40,1100 worth of the company's stock, f 12,000 worth of notes and $ 100 cash. No clue. A man giving his name as Sam Johnston, and who said his father lives in Toronto, went crazy on a railroad train in Michigan the other day, and termrt/.ed the trainmen and passengers, firing a number of shots with a revolver. No one was hurt. Albion \V. Tourgee is reported to have said at St. Paul, Minn. , that if there is not a marked change in the attitude of the coun- try toward tbe colored race we shall have within the next 10 yearn a massacre such u IISM not len paralleled tince the French revolution. " John Goliwn, of the Judson Manufactur- ing Company at San Francisco, was robbed of $17,OOO on Saturday by two men, who compelled him at the point of revolvers to disgorge. He was on liis way to Emery- ville station to pay off tbe company's em- ployees. The robbers escaped. On Saturday morning three hundred union men marched down to the several lumber yards at Tonawanda, New York, and attacked with clubs and stones the workmen employed there. The police force, consisting of eight men, arrived on the scene, and their threatening volley in the air from revolvers was replied to in earnest by the rioters, and two of the offi- cers wero seriously wounded. TW l.r , [ I'-.,;, i. The New York .S'u is considerably alarm- ed ovor two projects now contemplated by the Canadian people. Either of these great works, should'they be carried forward, will divert trade from New York and it is this which creates the apprehension the Sun does not attempt to conceal in the following article : " It is certainly not necessary to create two new routes for the transporta- tion of American grain to Kurope by way o; Canada. Wereferred on Monday to the pro- ject for the construct ion of mammoth ship railway between Lake Ontario vid Georgian Bay, by which the distance from the head- waters of the Western lakes to the St. Law- rence would be shortened, and by which the Montreal company hopes to divert the grain trade from the Krie Canal to the Canadian line of transportation. This project seems to be practicable if they can get money enough, and ill execution would not be ad- vantageous to tbe commercial interests ol the city of New York. We now learn of yet another project far a new grain route still further north that shall lie serviceable both to American am' to Canadian shippers, and the line of which is to be from Winni- peg by land to a point on the western bcr- tier of Hudson Bay, thenc* by water across the bay and through Hudson Strait to the Atlantic. It is hard to believe the report which we have received from London that the capital needed for the carrying out ol this extraordinary project has been raised in the Knglih market. It is hard to lielieve that the projectors can think that the crops of Minnesota, Dakota, and other North- western States, as well as of the Canadian provinces between the Kocky Mountains and Hudson Hay, ill ( ' ) j | shipped to European countries by this . .', For nearly three- quarters of theyearH r -'"' l (niiStrait m notnav- itfable, on account of the masses of ice with which it is blockaded, and it is hard to see how the shipment of grain through the strait for three months of the year could he m.l a profitable bu.Miiejj, while it would certainly not suit the convenient:.- of our Minnesota farmers. Hudson Bay itself is a sheet of water I, OOO miles long by 300 broad, and the tempests by which it is often dis- <|iiicted render it dangerous to navigator*. Then, again, the r.ilroid from Winnipeg, in Manitoba, to( 'hurohill, on the bay, would have to I o constructed through a wilderness over a distance of 700 miles, am' could have no appreciable local tratiic to cover any part of its expenses. In trath, the project seems to u to be wholly impracticable, and we shall re. (iiiru continuation of the report that tb funds for its execution have been supplied by London capitalists. The other project, the project for shortening the lake and Su Lstwrence loute by means of a ship railway from Georgian Bay to Lake Ontario, is not only feasible, but is certain to be carried out within a shbrt time, and must be very favorable- to the commercial inter- ests of England and Canada. The far- sighted capitalists and statesmen here who are concerned in maintaining the commer- cial supremacy of New York will have to ivc heed to the changes which are impend- ing, and through which much trade may be diverted from our city and port." w Hhol In -I. i-l- It is no argument iu favor of intoxicants to state that before Watt*, the discoverer of the |. rest-Mi mode of making thot, had his notable dream, induced by overindulgence in -tiinnl mt, the manufacture in question was a slow, laborious and consequently costly process. Great bars of lead had to be pounded into sheets of a thickness nearly equal to the diameter ot the shot desired. These sheets had then to be cut into little cubes, placed in a revolving barrel, and there rolled round until, by the constant friction, the edges wore off from the little cubes, and they become spheroids. Watts had often racked his brain trying to discover some better and less costly scheme, but in vain. Finally, after spending an evening with some boon companions at an ale house, he went home, went to bed, and soon fell asleep. His slumbers, how- ever, were disturbed by unwelcome dreams, in one of which he was out with " the boys" and as they were stumbling horn* it began to rain shot beautiful glo- bules of polished shining lead in such numbers that he and his companions had to seek shelter. In the morning Watts re- membered his curious dream, unlit .htm. I .-.I itself on his mind all day. Ho began to wonder what shape molten lead would as- sume in falling through the air, and finally, to set his mind at rost, he ascended to th top of this steeple of the church of St. Mary, at Redcliffe, and dropped slowly and reg- ularly a ladleful of molten lead into t-he moat l*l(>w. Descending, he took from tho bottom of the shallow pool several hand- full of the most perfect shot he had ever seen. Watt'i fortune was invio, for from this exploit emanated tho idea of the shot tower, which over since has been the only means employed iu the manufacture of the little missiles so important in war and > H. liu-1.,1, la P.-r.l.i. That there is in Persia so little happines and so little protection for life and property is no doubt a reason of the iutruiit which the people take in matters of the unseen world. It is there anticipated that the Imam Mahdi, the expected dc.icendantof Ali, will appear and will se. all thingt right. An ac- count which brings home to Western eyes the strange life of Ur-off Persia is that which Mr. CoutU Trotter gives in the Sfottink Review ul the rise of the greatest sect in the country. The Hbiah division of Molminmed- ans, to which the 1'emans belong, who re- ject the tirst three Caliphs and consider Ali the only rightful buccessor of the Prophet, are especially fruitfnl in the production of new sects and new prophets. Among these new prophets was a certain Ali Mohammed, a reputed Said, i. ., a descendant of the Imam Ali, a young man who was the son of a merchant of Slnraz. This young man at- A UOHAHMF.DtN EXRCI T|O1. Thr I'rl,..!!, r . I .ir. f.il Urlll,r rnllnll IB HU 1 .,o KrllicUsi. Kiln. A despatch from Alexandria, Egypt, says: On the night of Dei-. IH, 1KUO, a murder of singular atrocity for Egypt was commit td in this city. A respectable liroek, M. Lun- poropoulo, his wife, and woman servant were all murdered, the motive apparently being robbery. After a long hunt the murderers were captured, tried and sentenced, but, being all Muslim {for it baa turned out, it was committed by Arabs), the trial took place before the native tribunals, anil, under Mo- hammedan law, the record of all capital convictions must be transmitted to the Grand Ladi for approval before execution can follow. The i .raud Ladi annulled the nentence because of some formal error in the exam- tamed to great ce'ebrity on account of the ination of the witnesses, certain provisions of the religious law not having beon com- plied with ; and a new tiial was ordered. This resulted, as did the tirst, in the capital conviction and sentence of HekkitSuleiman, one of ill- offenders, and in the condemna- tion of the others to life imprisonment. Yesterday the sentence of death was car- ried out at sunrise in a military parade ground near the front Kom-Kl- l>ik. Up to the last the advocate and friends) of the mur- derer hoped for a commutation, and :!ui on two grounds first because it waa the first occasion for an execution iince the installa- tion of the new Khedive ; and that fact, as well as the presumed reluctance of a lad of eighteen to enforce the death penalty, wss thought to justify the hope of clemency. still greater confidence arose from the fact that the great fasting month of Islam had just tinisbed the month ol Ramadan and this concludes with a feast correspond- ing to our Easter in nature called Bairam which is a time of joy, of universal ex- change of visits, of ceremonial receptions. d, with sovereigns, of clemency. The purity and austerity of his life. It was he who, about the middle of this century, was the founder of a sect that has become very influential. He was barely thirty yearn old at the time of his death, in 1S50. Six years before he had gone upon a pilgrimage to Mecca, and, on his return, produc- ed some sacred writings, which, in the estimation of his followers, bear about the same relation to the Koran tli.it the New Testament does to the Old Testament. His view) appear to be rather a rationalistic variation from accepted Mohammedan doctrine. He has dispensed with a material hell. While holding that nothing in nature is impure, he inculcated and himself practiced abstention from coffee, opium, and tobacco, although the prohioi- tion as to the last article was rescinded by a later and pleasanter revelation. A very new doctrine is that women are equal to men. Women are relieved from pilgrimages on account of the fatigue incident to them. The prophet also decrees that wtun tbe faith shall have been established temples are to be erected on the sites of the martyrdoms " Khedive invariably signalized the return w religion and ' B"""'"" by releasing all prisoners whose of the chief teachers of the new religion that of his own martyrdom, which in Persia it perhaps required no great prophetic gift on his part to foresee. After the prophet's return from Mecca he was proclaimed hy his followers as the Bab, i. e. , the Gate or the " Way of Eternal Life." Asa reformer he attacked the corruption of the clergy, and appealed to the Shah to I* allowed to come to Teheran and argue the points of his faith with the mullahs, or orthodox doctors. The Shah did not like tbe clergy, and perhaps might have found aome diversion in hearing the argument, and the prophet showed characteristic courage in making the proposition, for death would have been the result if he had been worsted. But the Shah ultimately declined to receive him. About this time the Bab's gospel received a very effective recruit in a young, beauti- ful, and highly accomplished woman, the daughter of a famous mollah of K.-vwm. She was known as the Delight of the Eyes, or Her Excellency the Pare, which last designation, according to testimony of friends and foes alike, she deserved. She went ibout preaching, and was heard with delight by tlid multitude and by many learned doctors, her influence no doubt much assisted by her beauty, for in thu ardor of speakinij her veil would sometimes 1 '' r, 'jLjL ,_! i ooser fall aside. Such unconventional behavior would not have been appreciated by the relatives of a clever young woman in most countries and was not approved in Persia. Her uncle, a distinguished mollah, preach- ed against her from Ins pulpit, for which iTiatcly prepare foi death, handcuffed, but as miperturb- - - - he WM assassinated by some of her admir era. Conversionstotheuewreli g iontncreaed rapidly in all parts of the kingdom. There was at last a collision between the Shah's terms of punishment had nearly expired, and often by commutations. But Snleiman did not profit by the great festival, and yesterday morning, just as the gray dawn was streaking the east he was awakened in bis prison with the nws that his appeal for grace had been refused and he must immediate! Boun.l and handc able as the least concerned of hiseicurt, he waa taken to the place of execution, and at the foot of the gallows he maintained the same fatalistic composure. The prosecuting officer of the tribunal which tried him asked if he lisul any bequest to make or desired to make auy statement. He replied with perfect composure: 11 I am innocent ami Allah knows it. The guilty are Vbou Xeit and Ahmed Sath- in." " Then you wish nothing '" "Yes. I want to pray and to prostrate myself before Allah. " " You may." " But can "one ;iray who has not washed?" A stone vessel of water wan offered him the gullah in wlii.-h drinking water is al- ways kept in Egypt. They unbound his (lands, and he walked under the seaflbld and performed the ablutions that every Muslim prayer. He washed first his feet, then his hands and fane, and then rinsed his mouth, refusing to let any one help him or wait on him. Ho then unwound from his waist the shawl he used as a band, and nun-adiiiif it on the ground under the scsvffold, whose floor was higher than his head, he stood .>n it uid ottered up his prayer, prostrating himself four limes with his forehead to the _ i earth, iirayinu to Allah for nn-rcy and in- Government and the sect, and some two ! vok lhaaid M(1 mter cession of his Proph thousand* of them were surrounded m a , mountain fastness by an army led by the princes of the blood and massacred. The day soon came for tho Bab's own anticipat- ed martyrdom. Ho and two of his follow- ers were led througii the streets of Tabriz, beaten, and tortured. One of his two fol- lowers, said Hussein, won offered his life if he would curse the Bab, which he did. Two yean later, deeply repentant for his apos- tasy, he underwent martyrdom with great courage. The other disciple, Mir/,a Mo- hammed Ali, young, neb. and of good posi- tion, notwithstanding that his wife ind lit- tle children were brought to implore him to recant, remained firm and died with his master. At the conclusion of a dav of tor- ture the two were taken out %nd fired upon by a platoon of soldiers, when an extraor- dinary incident occurred Mirza wag killed, but, to the astonishment of the crowd, the Bah remained untouched. In Persia mir- oclosare matters of universal belief and of great importance. What might not have been the result if the Bab hod now escaped ? Btii, overcome with the day's suffering, he ran, as if from a natural impulse, to the nearest shelter, a guardhouse, whern the soldiers seeing that he ws mortal, cut him down. Thin movement, which had been intended \i\ its founder to be relitfious and so. mi only, at last become political. Thoennutv of tbe sect to thu Shah's administration led to an Attempt upon bin life. Asa result of of this many executions took place at Teheran. Among the suttcrer* was the Delight of the Kves, who. although offered her life in case she would renounce her re- liirinn, refused and foretold that she should die on the following day, which, indred, came to pass. Among the victims were many women and children, and all showed great courage, even the ohildre i singing a* they went to execution. " We come from find, and are returning to Him/' The ah hia present Highness and the 1'rime Minister, not wishing to concentrate upon themselves the vengeance which might Follow, cleverly distributed the executions among the various high functionaries. A share WAS offered to the Shah's physician, Dr. Cloqtiet, hut the Frenchman excused limsolf upon the pica that he had already tilled so manv people in the oxerr-ise of his ofc'ssimial duties thet he had no wish to il to the list. Several successors have ap- peared to the Bab, and the sect still remains ,he most numerous and influential in Persia. The Doctor Knew His Bnsinesg. Husband " What did the doctor say, Mary " Wife" Not much. He asked me to put my tongue out." Husband "Yes." Wife -" And ho said, ' Overworked.' " Husband -(with a long breath of rliof\ "Then you'll have to give, it a rest. Tho doctor knows his business, He drank from tho gullah and said : " I arr ready." He was then pinioned, and he walked up the steps to the scaffold, and lifting his voice, called out : " Salaam aleikum ya Warn " peace be to you, Muslim -and he added in Arabic : " I'ca 'w to all men, and the order of Allah. Peace to tho children nf Isiam. We belong to Allah, and to him we return. I testify that there is no (>od but he alone." He turned his face to the east and bowed. It would l>e impossible to exaggerate in description the majesty and dignity of this scene, notwithstanding one's assurance of the prisoner's guilt and of the justice of his fate. Alone and hopeless of aid, he turned hit face toward the glowing east and the holy cities, and, his laat act a prayer, his lost word a declaration of his unswerving belief, he lookod out upon the thousands assembled to witness his end with the untroubled as- surance of his fatalist ic creed. And so, as the scant rays of the morning illumed the rude machinery of death, he was swung into eternity, solemnly pronounc- ing as the cord lightened around his neck his creed * defiance to the unbeliever. " La illaha illalah '" there is no God but Allah and died. Pig Iran Mannriiriurc Iss ncln A pamphlot recently publtfihed contain* the reports of two mining vngincen on the (uulity and extent of tho Ik-ssemcr iron ores which are found in the Township of Snow- don, Haliharton County, Ontario. From these reports and other sources of informa- tion, it is believed by those who have given attention to the subject that iu at least two placed, both within <thout 110 miles of To- ronto, there are found excellent iron ores, capable of producing tho finest steel, and existing apparently in large ({iiautities. In connection with this report is a petition, signed by,M>mesixty of Toronto's Ixist known biiHiness men and capitalists, and addrvpsed to the Ontario Government asking sub* stanvi.il encouragement for the establish- ment of a blast furnace iu Toronto, for the manufacture of pig iron from these ores. The petitioners point out the great benefit that would result to the whole country from the establishment and operation of such a furnace in the Province, but claim that, in view of " the considerable degree nf uncer- tainty "attending Much nn enterprise, capi- talists are unwilling to assume the whole risk of iti erection. They ask, therefore, that an appropriation he made for the pur- pose of testing under proper conditions the extent and value of some of the must arcea- giblo iron deposits in Ontario, and that, further, a bonus of two dollars per ton on the output of a furnace of a capacity of not le.-n than one hundred tons per day, In- ^ivcn for ten years from tho time such furuaco shall commence to produce pig iron.