Montreal daily herald, 24 février 1893, vendredi 24 février 1893

[" i m 4 cn BD 10 Twinkle, twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are; , Bright the gloom itsradiance catches | Someone's lighting Eddy\u2019s Matches.\u2018 SEE EDDY'\u2019S AD.INSIDE, ; ferald The pitcher that oftenest goes to the well J ! to get broken at last; Iseure to got Dare pail will do | ually well, And the *hances of breaking are ° SEE EDDY'S AD.INSIDE.EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR.NO.47.MR.DAVIES\" SPEECH.It Was the Feature of the Day in Parliament, THE NATIORAL POLICY FRIZZLED.Conservatism in General and Mr.Foster in Particular Held Up to Public Scorn by the Eloquent Maritime Leader \u2014 He Convicts the Conservative Leaders of Falsehood.[Soccial to the Herald.] Ottawa, Feb.23.\u2014The delay for which the division on the budget debate was fixed has come and gone, and the end is not yet.It looks now as though the debate would \"extend well into nex: week, but an apparent agreement has been reached to have a division Tuesday next.At any rate the debate has been adjourned until Monday evening.The feature of the day has been Mr.Davies\u2019 arraignment of the (iovernment\u2019s reciprocity negotiations, which was as eloquent as it was admirable, After routine Mr.Foster introduced a bill relating to the inoneys payable in connection with proceedings before Parliament, w hich has already been explained in these columns, It was read a first time.Hon.Mr.Haggart told Mr.Gibson that it was not proposed to change the ferry service at Port Dalhousie prior to the opening of navigation on the Welland Canal, THOSE CENSUS STATISTICS.Messrs.Choquette and Bruneau had questions on the paper asking for the names of the various manufacturers set down in the census in Montmagny town and Sorel respectively.Hon.Mr.Foster replied in each case: \u201cThe information in the census schedules was obtained by sworn enumerators on the understanding that nothing but general statistical results should be prepared and that no names or personal particulars should be communicated.\u201d \u2018This anuouncement was greeted with loud ironical cheers from the Opposition, whereupon the Finance Minister added, \u201cI may Btate for the information of hon.gentlemen that this bas always been the practice in the census of Canada.\u201d Mr.MeMillan, of Huron, was told that the order-in-council allowing the free admission of settlers\u2019 cattle into \u2018+ Northwest was carried out until t 3th inst.when the order making a ninety days quarantine was made absolute, Hon.Mr.Foster stated in reply to Mr.Mulock that the Government had not been informed of any slaughter ot cattle in Toronto because they were believed to be affected with tuberculosis, and that the Government had not up to the present time caused the contagious diseases act to be applied to tuberculosis.Replying to.M.McMullen; the comptroller of customs stated that Mr.J.J.Davidson was appointed dry goods appraiser at Montreal on Feb.1, 1891, at a salary of $1400 and was afterwards transferred to Toronto owing to pressure of work, A Mr.Cuthbert, of Toronto, was subsequently ap- Jointed acting appraiser at Montreal.Mr.Lavoie was assistant appraiser at Montreal at a salary of $800.He had been employed since 1885 in the dry goods appraisers department.ir John Thompson replying to Mr.Laurier stated that the writ for the South Middlesex election would be issued on Saturday.MR.DAVIES ON THE BUDGET.Hon, Mr.Davies then resumed the budget debate, presenting a few statements of fact from a Maritime Province standpoint, though he did not take a sectional view of the question, All the prophecies of prosperity made at the time of Confederation had been falsified since the Maritime Provinces nn- fortunately joined the union.(Ministerial olt\u2019s), Replying to the jeers, Mr.Davies pointed out that the National {Policy received its main support from the representatives of the Maritime Provinces,and, therefore,their people were only to blame themselves for the unhappy situation in which they found themselves.The National Policy was now on its trial as never before.It was attacked now, not only by its enemies,but from with- In the house of its friends.The order paper was bristling with motions attacking that policy, vet strangely enough its sturdiest defenders came from the representatives - of Cape Breton, which had suffered more by that policy and had lost more people proportionately than any other part of the Dominion.Any progress which the country had made had been in spite of the National policy, not caused by it.Me.Davies ridiculed Mr.Foster's figures in reference to the progress of the country, and asked why there should not have been some advance in our railways and shipping when we had during the past decade borrowed one hundred millions of dollars and squandered it in the construction of railways and public works.We had our dance,and now we must pay the piper, as we were doing in the enormous sums of interest which we had to pay.The revelations of the census were the most appalling that had ever confronted any British province.Within the past ten years we had LOST MORE PEOPLE than were sacrificed in all of Napo- poleon\u2019s devastating and costly campaigns.After dealing at some length with the results of the National Policy in the Maritime Provinces as exemplified by the census, which showed that the exodus from that section had been three times greater than from 1871 to 1881.Mr.Davies showed that registered shipping of the provinces had been decreased by over eleven million dollars since 1878.The entire profits of our shipping were now going to foreigners, who secured complete control of our fleet.The people were leaving the Maritime Provinces in hordes, as if a plague was upon them.The Finance Minister\u2019s speech could be 1n- terpreted in any way which may be desired.They could believe anything or nothing.Those who desired tariff reform could read between the lines and gain some slight hope, while those who supported the National Policy could find their consolation also.He had sympathy with those who stood by the National Policy.It should be either kept up or destroyed as a whole.The whole system of duties was indefensible and should be swept away.Coming to discuss THE IRON DUTIES, \"Mr.Davies recalled Sir Charles Tupper\u2019s glowing predictions of what would follow the imposition of high duties, all of which had been falsified, while the taxpayers had been compelled to pay nearly one million dollars extra per year.These iron duties had been imposed to build up the pig iron industry and force the people to buy it at five or six times the proper price.Despite this duty, the product of ironljin Canada had fallen from 59,728 tons in 1887 to 22,200 tons in 1892, while the imports had crown from 45,000 tons fn 1887 to 98,918 tons in 1892.Tariff reform must come in this respect as in all others.Mr.Davies ridiculed the preferential trade idea and showed that whereas Great Britain imported £420,000,000 Canada only sent £12,600,000, or less than 3 per cent.while of its exports British North America took again less than 3 per cent.Mr.Davies then took up the reciprocity question and showed conclusively that the Goverument\u2019s whole course in respect thereto had heen marked by deception and intent to deceive the people.There had been for the last three or four years a malignant attempt to falsify and misrepresent the policy of the Opposition on this question.They (the Liberals) were sincerely desirous of obtain- lug reciprocity of trade, but they were not and never had been prepared to accede to any treaty which would sacrifice the independence of Canada.They desired a treaty as broad as could be obtained, but one which would be consistent with political an COMMERCIAL INDEPENDENCE OF CANADA.That policy had been clearly stated in Mr.Laurier s Boston speech, when he had said that he was not prepared to sell his allegiance to Great Britain Or to sacrifice the independence of Canada in order to secure \u2018auch a treaty.The Conservatives had been unfair and disingenuous when they alleged that the Liberal policy involved in any way the least sacrifice of the country\u2019s destiny.They wanted the negotiations to be untrammelled and the discussion to be as unrestricted as possible.They did not expect reciprocity in every article, but hoped to get a treaty which should be of the widest possible nature.Col.O\u2019Brien \u2014 Unrestricted discussion and unrestricted seciprocity are two very different things.Mr.Davies\u2014The honorable gentleman may draw the distinction if he likes, but what we want is the broadest, most unrestricted freedom of trade.They would not have sent plenipoteuntiaries to Washington to negotiate a treaty unless it were to be ratified by the Canadian Parliament.The Conservatives had misled the American people by saying that half the Canadian people were disloyal, for that was what their attacks upon the Liberal party meant.As the direct result of these libels the idea had gone broadcast throughout the United States that the Liberal party was false to its Queen and its country.As a representative of the Maritime provinces he could say that there had never been any section ofthe Maritime provinces in favor of annexation.They wanted to live under the constitution which they now \"enjoyed.The ministerialists had lied aud they had lied wittingly and for the contemptible purpose of creeping into power again, SOME HISTORICAL FACTS.1r.Davies then recalled some historical facts which are but little known.If a desire to secure the assimilation of Canada and the United States were a crime against the nation, then the Conservatives had, through the political god they had worshipped for years, been guilty of high treason.In 1864-5 the government of Sir John Macdonald had proposed to the Ametican government to assimilate the tariff and the excise duties of the two countries.Mr.Foster\u2014One tariff for the two countries.Mr.Davies\u2014Is it not true that the late Geo.Brown left the Macdonald Government because of that very proposal ?In support of this contention he read frown a speech delivered by Mr.Brown in which this point was made very clear.Afterwards in 1870 a formal proposal was made by Sir John Macdonald for aun assimilation of the customs and excise \"tariffs of Canada with those of the United States.There might be advantages in commercial union, but that had never been proposed by the Liberal party.The Ministers had declared throughout the country that the Liberal policy would involve commercial union, but no greater falsehood was ever uttered, but he had no doubt that the narrow majority at the general elections had been due to the belief of the people that the Liberal policy involved a uniform tariff and more than all the prohibitive tariff of the United States.What were the facts ?SCRUPLED AT NOTHING.The ministers had gone to the people and told them that if they were returned to power they would get them a reciprooity treaty.They were then in favor of renewal of the reciprocity treaty of 1854 with the necessary enlargement which the changes of time would require.They also said that they had been invited to Washington to negotiate a reciprocity treaty.That was the lie which had been told at Toronto and whioh had been scattered broadcast throughout the country.They scrupled at nothing in order to retain power.The High Commissioner, the second head of the party during the elections, had stooped so low as to make a statement which was not only uatrue, but for which he was afterwards compelled to crawl upon his knees and apologize to Mr.Blaine.His statements were false and he knew they were false.Was Canada ever subjected to such humiliation?After such humiliation had been heaped upon Canada nothing had been obtained except that the Tory party had saved its office amd its place.After the elections they went to Washington and they came back empty handed after having put all the obstacles in the way of reciprocity which they could, Yet the country had not been treated with courtesy in this matter.A record was made of what had taken place and the people were entitled to see it, but it had not been brought down for reasons which the finance minister knew.MISSTATEMENTS SHOWN UP.Mr.Davies then read that portion of the Finance Minister's speech of last session, in which he had said that the negotiations failed because the American plenipotntiaries insisted upon discrimination against Great Britain, a uniforin tariff equal to that of the United States, an arrangement which would include manufactured goods as well as natural products.The ministerial objection to the latter proposal was nonsensical.No sane man in Canada believed that it was possible to secure a treaty unless it included manufactured goods.*\u2018Now,\u201d said Mr.Davies, \u2018\u2018the Finance Minister knew that he was making a misstatement when he said that there should be a uniform tariff, that the treaty should be unlimited in its scope or that we should adopt the United States tariff.No such conditions were asked.I knew whereof I speay.Though this Government had withheld the record we haye access to the record transmitted to Congress.We had had Mr.Blaine\u2019s statement and it proves that not one of the things which Mr.Foster hau stated were ever mentioned by Mr.Blaine at all.\u201d THE WASHINGTON NEGOTIATIONS, Proceeding Mr.Davies quoted from the American statement, which proved that the Canadian delegates had insisted that the treaty should be confined to natural products only, but that the Americans had insisted that it should include manufactured goods.The Canadian dele- ates had then asked whether the United States wanted preferential treatment, and the reply was that it was the desire of the United States Government to make a treaty which should be exclusive as between Canada and the United States.The record showed that later on the Canadian delegates had refused to accept a treaty which included manufactured products Continued on Second Page.REALIZE A DANGER The Possibilities of Cholera Coming Next Season Considered.Dr.Montizambert, the Medical Superintendent at Grosse Isle Quarantine, Makes Some Important Remarks in the Annual Report of the Department of Agricul- ture\u2014The Danger of Cholera.[Special to The Herald.Ottawa, Feb.23.\u2014The annual report of the department of Agriculture has a lengthy statement in reference to the scheduling of Canadian cattle in (ireat Britain, declares that no pleuro-pneumonia has existed in Canada since 1884 and expresses the hope that a careful consideration of the facts will warrant the British Board of Agriculture in allowing the resumption of the trade at the commencement of next season.QUESTION OF QUARANTINE.In view of the danger of a cholera epidemic next spring, the portion of the report of the Department of Agriculture devoted to (quarantine, possesses cousiderable interest.After a review of what has been done to improve the quarantine stations, the minister says : \u2018\u2018\u2019The utinost watchfulness will be maintained during the coming season of navigation and all precautionary measures will be adopted in view of the existing condition of the public health in Europe.Cholera still lurks in variousfparts of that continent, an à the previous history of this disease foreshadows further outbreaks in the spring, bul I am in hopes that with the important disinfecting appliances with which our most important quarantine stations are furnished, und so placed on a footing with stations of the first-class, and under the stringent observance of our quarantine regulation, as well as by means of vigilant inspection of every vessel that arrives in Europe, it may be prevented from obtaining a foothold on our shores, and even should it manifest itself in an insoming vessel, the disinfecting appliancee will prove their efficiency in confining any ravages to the vessel.* If it were to gain access to the Dominion there would be incalculable damage to all industrial and commercial enterprises, in imports and exports, and shrinkage in every line of business.The London Times is authority for the statement that the exports of Hamburg last summer fell off £7,000,000 sterling.No precaution can, therefore, be too great to prevent its introduction here.\u201d » DR.MONTIZAMBERT\u2019S REVIEW.Dr.Montizambert, the medical superintendent of the Grosse Isle quarantine, gives à very elaborate review of the season\u2019s work.In one place he says: \u201cWe had probably no actual case of Asiatic cholera at the quarantine station itself, but we had at least one vessel in quarantine, the history of whose voyage warranted the very gravest suspicion.At about the same time as the steamship Luke Huron\u201d arrived in the St.Lawrence, vessels with the same class of immigrants from the same infected districts and with deaths from the same symptoms arrived at New York.Subsequently similar cases occurred at the New York quarantine and the distinctive micro-organism of Asiatic cholera was found to be present.No opportunity for bacteriological examination presented itself with us as no subsequent case developed at our quarantine.Whilst, therefore, it is impossible to establish that the deaths on the \u2018Lake Huron\u201d were from cholera all the facts connected with their history would meke the assumption that they were not from that disease in the highest degree impossible, Moreover, it is impos-ibleto say to what extent the infection of cholera might have entered the country had not doubtful luggage and cargoes been disinfected by steam sterilization, before being allowed to puss the quarantine station.In the event, however, of disease arriving, it is evident that after that persons fron a healthy vessel cannot be landed for cleansing purposes at an infected station.If the sterilization of all immigrant luggage be decided upon for next season some other locality than the quarantine station itself would need to be selected and fitted up for this purpose.VINDICATION FOR GROSSE ISLE.\u201cIt is not, perhaps, for me to remark at any length upon the supplementary detén- tion of vessels and passengers by the Province of Quebec or the City of Montreal after they had been admitted to pratique by the Dominion quarantine officer.I may, however, be permitted to point out that the results of that action have proved the most complete vindication and endorsation of our quarantipe regulations, and of the inagner in which I have interpreted them and carried them out, that not a single case of cholera occurred on any vessel after leaving \u2018the quarantine station\u2014although crews an passengers were kept virtually imprisoned on board their vessels for days and days, with all the attendant depressing influences of disappointment and the insanitary influences of confinement in small rooms and at anchor\u2014is a better certificate than could probably have been obtained in any other way that they were free from danger when they left quarantine, and that I was fully justified in releasing each vessel when I did.With respect to the outlook for next year, the history of previous outbreaks of Asiatic cholera has usually been that of a limited appearance one autumn followed by a widespread epidemic the next summer.With the setting in of the cold weather this autumn there has been as usual a notable diminution of the disease, but it still lurks in various parts of Europe.Cholera has been doing just what it has done formerly.It has crept quietly onward, sowing the autumnal seeds in new ground over a wide era.And these seeds will in all probability burst forth into luxuranti growth with the advent of spring.\u201d Dr.Montizambert gives a long list of requirements for the Grosse Isle quarantine station, which would indicate that it is in anything but the good condition which the department claims.A NORTHWEST PETITION, An important petition was presented from sixty-seven residents of the Moose Jaw District, N.W.T.Its prayer is worth recording just as this particular time.It asks, (1.) That the people of the Territories are now looking forward in the hope and expectation that before long provincial powers will be conferred upon the assembly of the Northwest by the Parliament of Canada; (2) That your petitioners hope that the full control in educational matters will be granted to the Assembly, as in the opinion of your petitioners the people of the Northwest are quite competent to legislate and manage the matters pertaining to education, and are in a position to do so more acceptably to the people of the Northwest than is the Parliament of Canada; (3) That your petitioners are in full sympathy with the people of the province of Manitoba in the stand that they have taken on the subject of their right to legislate in relation to educational matters, and they view with alarm the recent action taken by the Privy Council of Canada, in re-opening the question of constitutionality of the public school law of Manitoba, which matter was, as your petitioners believe,definitely settled hy the decision of the judicial com- mittee of the Privy Council.(4) That the clause in the Northwest Territories ne: requiring publication of the ordinance: passed by the Northwest Assembly in the French language, and allowing the proceedings of the courts to be c.nducted in that tongue should, in the opinion of your peti- tious, be repealed.THE LARKIN-CONNOLLY CASE.The civil action of the Queen against the firm of Larkin, Conuolly & Co.for $40,000, which was entered by Sir John Thompson in the Exchequer Court several months ago, came up again before Mr.Audette, the registrar of the Exchequer Court.B.B.Osler, Q.C., and W.D.Hogg, Q.C., appeared us counsel for the Crown ; Z.A.Lash, Q.C., for Messrs.Michael aud Nicholas K.Connolly, and R.Gregory Cox, of St.Cathar- ines, for Capt.Larkin.All that was done to-day was the examination for discovery, reliminary to the action proper of Nicholas - Connolly and Mr.Larkin.To-morrow Michael Connolly will be examined.The case will probably be tried in May next.The Dominion Meteorological will not be removed from Toronto, at leust for the present.The almost tearful protests of Toronto\u2019s three Members have induced the Governmont to delay the removal until the return of Hon, C.H.Tupper and the order which had been made was rescinded to-day.The Banking and Commerce committee of the Commons this morning passed the bili respecting the Hrtnilton Provident and Loan Society and that to incorporate the Dominion Burglary Guarantee company.The latter, which is the enterprise of Messrs.Grose aud Carpenter, was amended so as to make the company deposit in the bank $40,000 before commencing business, and 810,000 more during the first year of its existence for the purpose of making provision against loss on the part of those who insure.Dr.Brown, of Melbourne, one of the vice-presidents of the Eastern Townships\u2019 Conservative Association, and Mr.J.U.Emard, Q.C., of Montreal, are in town.The sub-committee of the Agriculture Committee met this morning and drew up a plan, for submission to the full committee, for an inquiry iuto the charge that iufec- tious disease exists among Caradian cattle.It was resolved to recommend the subpæn- ing of heading veterinary sorgeons and stock-breeders to give evidence under oath.A report is current in political circles today that the Federal ministers have abandoned the prosecution against Hon.Thomas McGreevy and Mr.Nicholas Connolly for \u2018\u2018conspiracy,\u201d and will furnish no evidence against the accused.Sir Adolphe Caron gave a dinner party this evening which was largely attended.Messrs.Edgar and Tarte were not invited.VETERINARY MEDICOS.Dr.Rowat Writes Them at Length\u2014A Meeting Last Night.The Montreal Veterinary Medical Society met last night with the Hon.Presidert, Dr.McEachran, in the chair.A communication from Dr.Rowat, late veterinarian to the Government of Honolulu, now of San Francisco, was read by the secretary.He relates a case of tuberculosis in a dog, and as the dog is by some authorities considered to be immune to the disease, the case was of vital interest.More recent investigations find that the canine race are not immune, and that tuberculosis in the dog shows the same minute and gross pathological lesions as in any other animal.A vote of thanks was passed to Dr.Rrwat, Mr.Stephens next read a paper on \u201cBreeding of the Draught Horse.\u201d He went very extensively into all the factors influencing the rearing of the horse from colthood up.The care of the brood mare was taken up at length.The influence of climate, surroundings and the proper choice of the sive occupied his consideration.This paper called up a discussion in which the hon.president, speaking from ranching experience, gave his methods of breeding.Mr.Thayer read a paper on \u2018\u2018Azotuoca.\u201d In a clear comprehensive style he outlined all that is at present known as to its pathological nature.The treatment, symptoms, etc., were dealt with.On conclusion Mr.Thayer was highly eomplimented by the hon.president.Mr.MoGuire communicated a case of \u201cNavicular Disease.\u201d His plan of treatment proved successful in a case that had been handled previously by another pratic- tioner unsuccessfully.After the usual vote of thanks the meeting adjourned.CITY AMUSEMENTS.The Attractions Which are Booked for the Coming Week\u2014*\u2018Fools.\u201d All the theatres are doing a good business this week.The attractions are worthy in every case of patronage.\u201c\u2018KOL NIDRE.\u201d This ancient Hebrew melody, which forms one of Joseph Hollman\u2019s numbers, is one which is sung in every synagogue throughout the world on the eve of the day of atonement.The text of \u2018Kol Nidre\u201d in a few words means that all vows and oaths which they had taken to follow the religion of Spain, they prayed on the eve of atonement \u201cYoro-Kip-ur\u201d might be annulled and forgiven.\u201cROSE HILL.\u201d Of the company which comes to the Royal next week, the Washington Post says: \u201cThe Rose Hill English Folly company, under the management of Rice and Barton, is first-class.The combination has evidently been selected with great care, and particular attention paid to having each performer individually good in their several parts, the whole forming an ensemble hard to beat.\u201cMERLI.\" Advance reports predict that Merli will huve a big success at the Academy next week.She will be seen in several good plays.\u201c > FOOLS.A large and appreciative audience gathered in the Windsor Hall last evening to hear the lecture that had been announced by the celebrated Chicago divine, Dr.P.8.enson, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Chicago.This was the thirteenth event in the Windsor star course of entertainments.The Rev.Doctor took as his subject \u2018* Fools,\u201d and dealt with it with a freshness, an originality, a genuine humor and pathos that was irresistible.Its appreciation by the audience was evinced by rapt attention and frequent applause.It was apparent to his hearers that Dr.Henson loves to look at the sunny side of things, and he abounds in humor, which is never coarse, but through the whole of it there is evidently a serious purpose.To-Day\u2019s Amusements.ACADEMY\u2014** The Gondoliers,\u201d 8 p.m.QUEEN's\u2014\"** Our Club,\u201d 8 p.m.THEATER ROYAL\u2014** The Pulse of New York,\u201d 2and 8 p.m.EMPIRE THEATRE\u2014 His Natural Life,\u201d 8 p.m.SoHMER PARK\u2014 Variety entertainment, 3 and 8 p.m.ART GALLERY\u2014Exhibition of paintings.CYCLORAMA\u2014Custer's Last Fight.MUSEE LA SALLE-\u2014Historical exhibition.Poinvx ST.CHARLES\u2014Choral Union Concert, 8p.m.Vicrornmu RINK\u2014Fanoy Dress Carnival, § .m.CLAN MACLENNAN\u2014Monthly Social, 8 p.m.ErsKINE CHURCH\u2014Concert, 8 p.m.Vics\u2019 ARMORY \u2014Smoking Concert, 8 p.m, QUEENS HALL\u2014Prince Consort Lodge Social, fn mM, MONTREAL, FRIDAY MORNING.FEBRUARY 24, 1893.KILLED THE BILL.Tho Assembly Does not Approve of the Medical Bill's Principles.It Came up for Discussion Last Evening, and After Remarks From Numerous Members.was Sent Back to Committee\u2014There Clause Five, Containing the Principle of the Bill, was Condemned by 30 to 19.{Special to The Herald.] Quebec, Feb.23.\u2014The whole of the afternoon sitting of the Assembly was spent in discussing Mr.Beaubien\u2019s bill for the establishment of farmers\u2019 clubs in parishes He spoke at considerable length on the subject.Mr.Marchand replied that the question was not a political one, but remarked that a8 agricultural societies were already established, the further establishment of farmers\u2019 clubs might lead to useless confusion, The matter will come up again this evening.After recess the House concurred in the amendments made in committee to the Montreal Belt Line Railway Co.bill.Third reading to-morrow.Mv.Fitzpatrick\u2019s bill authorizing the Bar of the Province of Quebec to admit W.H.Davidson to practice after examination was passed.The Montreal bill came next on the order paper, but it was not printed and its consideration was delayed until to-morrow.Mr.Dechene moved that the original of the motion containing certain words pronounced by himself be laid upon the table of the House.Mr.Teillon said that this was impossible as the motion was verbal.Mr.Dechene\u2014If there was no motion how could the words I am supposed to have pronounced go ou to the votes and proceedings?The whole proceedings in such a case were irregular.Mr.Casgruin said that the motion might in this case be verball because it must be made on the spur of the moment and before anything further had been said.The Speaker was of opinion that the proceedings were regular, and Mr.Dechene insisting upon a vote on the motion, the house divided as follows: Yeas 17, Nays 42._ The medical bill was then called but as its promoters were not present, the next order, Mr.Beaubien\u2019s bill concerning farmers\u2019 clubs was taken up and Mr.Beauchamp made a good speech in favor of the bill.The debate was then adjourned and the MEDICAL BILL TAKEN UP.After a rather lengthy debate as to whether the report of the special committee should be adopted, it was finally decided that it should, and the House went into committee, Mr.Flynn said that as the amendments had completely changed the nature of the bill he would suggest that it be passed through « numittee on division, and that the debate on the amendments take place on the third reading in order to save time.This was agreed to and the bill reported.On motion for third reading Dr.Cartier moved an amendmeut that the bill be referred back to committee of the whole, with instructioris to report it in its original form as received from Council.Mr.Pelletier said that the bill as received was absurd.1t provided that certain things should be done by the assessors, and in a subsequent clause abolished them; it declared that the examination bourd must be complete so that if a single oue of the twenty-five examiners was absent the board could not sit.Another clause obliged the caudidate to pass alternately before eight committees.The the students of the province were placed by the bill in à position of inferiority with every country where such boards did not exist.LOOKED LIKE A CONSPIRACY.Mr.Stephens said that the bill appeared to him a conspiracy, if the word was parliamentary, to prevent young men from entering the profession.Whether or not the diminution of the number of doctors would be a saving of life to the community he could not say.(Laughter.) The bill was unpatriotic, and ic was a slur upon our universities that they did not deserve when the sacrifices they had gone to and the high standing of their professors was considered.Laval, McGill, Bishops, ete., were institutions which it was our duty to uphold.Besides the bill unamended was contradictory on several important points and could not work.\"Mr.Nantel thought that the amendment was too sweeping.No doubt the bill had been completely disfigured in committee today.On the other hand the bill as received required to be amended in certain parts.r.Panneton contended that the bill as received was quite rational and in conformity with the wants of the profession.Mr.Descarries favored the amendment.Mr.Auge thought that the bill as received was quite rational and periectly well worded.bi r.Morris spoke strongly against the ill.Mr.Flynn favored it.Mr.Casgrain thought that several clauses of the bill were obscure and proposed in sub-amendment that the bill ve referred back to the committee to be amended generally.SENT BACK TO COMMITTEE.The House divided on the sub-amend- ment with the following result : Yes\u2014Mossrs.Taillon, Beaubien, Hall, Pelle tler, Casgrain, Nantel, Duplessis, Marion, Mc- Donald, England, Spencer, Beauchamp, Fe- treault, Magnan, Cooke, Hackett, Chateauvert, King, Baker, Tellier, Descarries, Morris, Pari- zeau.Kennedy, Chicoyne, Poirier, Pinauit, 3reig, Rioux, Girard, (Lake St.John); Petit, Villeneuve, Tessier, (Portneuf); Lussier, Ber- natchez, Ste.Marie, Bourbonnais, Tessier, (Rimouski) ; Turgeon, Dechene, Parent, Morin Nays\u2014Messrs.Flynn, Desjardins, Normand, Panneton, Grenier, Cartier, Allard, Dorion, Lacouture, Bisson, Martineau, Cholette, Savaria, Marchand, Auge, Mercier, Caron, Stephons, Gladu, Girouard, Laliberte, Gosse- n\u201422, The House then went into committee with Mr.Duplessis in the chair.The chairman proceeded to read the bill clause by clause.The discussion continued until a late hour.At 2 o'clock the committee voted on clause five containing the prin ciple of the bill and the universities carried the day by 30 to 19.The House adjourned at 2.20 a.m.TO-DAY'S WEATHER.Strong North to West Winds, Fair and Moderately Cold.Meteorological Office, Toronto, Feb.23, 11 p.m.The storm has moved from the Maritime provinces, eastward across Newfoundland and the western depression has moved from the Upper Missouri Valley to Lake Krie.High westerly winds with fair moderately cold, weather have prevailed to-day in Maritime provinces.A northeaslL snow storm has prevailed in southern Ontario, while in the Northwest Territories the weather has been fair, moderate temperatures.Minimum and maximum temperature\u2014 Esquimalt, 34, 44 : Calgary.24, 34 : monton, 24, 36; Priuco Albert, 8, 16, Qu'Appello, 12, 14; Toronto, 16, 24; Montreal, 12, 22 ; Quebse, 6, 14; Halifax, 20, 28.PROBABILITIES.Lakes \u2014Strong north to west winds, fair weather, stationary or a little higher temperature.Upper St.Lawrence\u2014Strong north to west winds, fair and moderately cold.Lower St.Lawrence \u2014 Strong winds and gales, northeast and northwest, cloudy and moderately cold, with snow during day, then clearing.; Gulf\u2014Strong winds and gales, northeast and northwest, cloudy and moderately cold, with enoty, PRICE TWO CENTS.MENT.WELSH CHURCH DISESTA.Mr.Asquith Presents the Bill,a np = the Rejection of Which is Rejecte \"vp London, Feb.23.\u2014 Mr.Asquith, the J Secretary, introduced in the House of CR mons to-day a bill suspending the creation o new interests in churches in Wales.Tae measure is the first pructical step in the direction of disendowing and disestablishing the church in Wales to which the Liberal party is distinctly pledged.Sir John Gorst moved the rejection of the bill, being supported by Lord Randolph Churchill.Mr.(:ladstone replied.Sir John 3orst\u2019s motion was rejected, 301 to 245.DR.BUTLER TALKS.An Interesting Address Before the McGill Teachers\u2019 Association.The lecture hall of the McGill Normal School was well filled last night on the occasion of the second regular monthly entertainment of the McGill Teachers\u2019 Association.Mr.W, Patterson, M.A., occupied the chair.Rev.E.1.Rexford and Miss Church were voted to membership.Miss Stoan opened the evening's entertainment with an interesting and amusing essay.Mr.Edwin Varney then gave a recitation and did not belie his reputation.Dr.Buller was received with great applause.His address was on \u201c\u2018 Inattentiveness in Pupils.\u201d He spoke of the duties of teachers aud regarded no occupation more worthy of esteemn than that of teacher of youth.With all the advances of the nineteenth century teaching has became no easier than in the days of our forefathers and no changes have been inade in the methods, except, perhaps, they have become more gentle.Nothing is more annoying to teachers in their work than inattentiveness on the part of their pupils.Two great causes of this ure defects in the organs, by which children in our schools derive their principal knowledge, namely, those of the senses of hearing and seeing.The speaker explained how much more liable to defects of sight and hearing children are than adults.A great many children go about troubled with slight deafness or imperfect cyesight which is not eus- pected by parents and other grown persons.The defects in eyesight are generally due to shortsightedness, longsightedness and stig- matism.The speaker, in descr \u201cing these, used diagrams and pictures which clearly brought the facts before the audience.At the close of his address Dr.Buller was tendered a hearty vote of thanks.AT THE HOTELS.Among the principal arrivals at the city hotels yesterday are : THE VANCOUVER.D.McLeod, Danville; G.Ellison, Farn- bam ; James Cooper, Vancouver; Alex.Watkins, Robert Allison, St.Paul ; Arthur Belisle, Colorado; J.Hunt, Hamilton; N.Cabana, Lake Megantic; A.L.Pemberton, Chicago; J.P.Dupuis, Thos.Landers, Farnham.THE WINDSOR.C.T.Long, W.T.Heming, -A.Rutherford, E.B.Freeland, F.D.Lumsdeu, Toronto ; G.K.Addee, Sherbrooke ; J.M Gordon, Ottawa ; G.O.Fulton, Truro, N.S.; C.Smith, A.McLean, Ottawa ; Lord Stanley, Hon.Isobel Stanley, Hon.A.Stanley, W.Walsh, A.D.C., and Lord Kil- coursie, A.D.C., were registered at the Windsor yesterday.: THE BALMORAL.H.F.Christie, Chicago, Ill.; J.M.Rid- dell, H.B.Hollinshed, Belleville; J.A.Paquet, Quebec; A.Findlay, Toronto: Thos.A.Mara, London; H.J.Hollinrake, Toronto; F.J.Anderson, Montreal; T.Dal- gleigh, Galt; A.McKenzie, Plattsburgh; W.Watson, Suranac Falls; W.H.O'Regan, Putnam; R.J.Walker, Geo.Walt, Toronto; W.Hibbard, Ottawa; C.H.McNish, Lynn; A.Mormian, Toronto; C.W.Martin, H.J.Stevens and wife, C.D.Rochester, Ottawa.ST.LAWRENCE HALL.W.H.Eccles, N.Y.; J.B.Lambkin, Halifax ; J.Grant, Belleville ; W.Jackson, Clinton ; E.D.Weston, N.Y.; Henry A.Gay, Toronto; G.Dixon, London, Eng.; A.8.Matthews, Fort Covington.THE CITY HOTEL.G.S.Place, F.McCrimmon, Plattsburgh, N.Y.; D.P.O'Neil, Boston ; C.H.Howard, Toronto; J.F.Matthewson, Toronto; S.C.Burns, F.M.Conway.Chicago; W.H.Ault, Aultsonville, Ont.; E.J.Reeves, J.P.Ruryan, Little Rock, Neb.; F.Gilbert, London; J.W.Tomey, Belleville.THE RIENDEAU.J.E.Parent, St.Jerome; J.M.Barnes, St.John\u2019s; Dr.N.Duchesnois and wife, Varennes; N.B.Archambault, L\u2019 Assoinp- tion; H.Beauchemin, Sorel; Oswald Chaut; L\u2019Assomption; F.X.Bertiriaume, St.runo; C.Chenevert, Berthier; X.Dupre, Ottawa; M.Pelletier, River du Loup; P.H.Garneau, Quebec; T.B.De- grosbois, Roxton Falls; Miss Jackson, Quebec.THE RICHELIEU.J.B.Fournier, Levis ; Jos.Parent, Que- beo ; J.H.Smile, Denver ; A.Hogan, O+- tawa ; J.Stetson, Philadelphia, Pa.; L.Cote, Richmond ; J.Lamarche, Portland, Me.; M.J.Fanning, Masena Springs; R.St.Denis, Berthier ; H.H.Fessler, J.Fournier, T.Perry, Providence ; F.Hogan and wife, Boston, L.N.Dion, Chicago ; John Kent, P.J.Goodwin, Toronto; M.F.Crowe, Boston; S.M.Martin, St.Eustache, P.H.Barrett, M.Tucker and wife, New York ; J.G.MeDonald, Brooklyn ; Jas.Keene, Winnipeg ; R.S.Walker, Liverpool; H.O.Smith, Brownviile, Me.THE ST.JAMES.J.Spaulding and wife, North Bay; F.H.Hawbrick, Claremont, N.H.; Wm.T.Reynolds, Albany; G.E.Robitaille,Sherbrooke: J.C.Croble, Fairfield; Bertha J.Boyce, Sheldon; W.Price, Chs.B.Rushton, Monc- ton, N.B.; M.J.McPhillips, Malone, N.Y.; P.H.Barciay, Jane Burnett, Glens Falls, N.Y.; J.M.Chalifour and wife, Quebec; E.Brew, P.Patterson, Toronto; T.Lozo, St.Albans.PERSONAL.Mr.W.F.Luxton, editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, was in the city yesterday, and left in the evening for Ottawa.Mayor Desjardins left for Ottawa yesterday morning to take his seat in the Senate, and will return home to-morrow.8.W.Jenckes, of Sherbrooke, is at the Windsor.Ernest Pacaud is at the Windsor, E.G.Davis, M.P.P.for King's county, Ont., is at the Balmoral.Sir Donald A.Smith and Lady Smith give an \u201cat home\u201d to the inining engineers on Saturday evening from 9 to 12 p.m, W.Smaill, B.A.Sc., of the Londonder- ry Iron Works, N.S., is in the city.C.J.Smith, general passenger agent of the Canada Atlantic Railway, is at the Windsor.W.H.Price, travelling agent of the I.C.R., is at the St.James.Capt.Ernest F.Wurtele, of Quebec, is a guest at the Hall.Capt.Van Straubenzie, of the British army, arrived at the Hail lasu evening from Kingston.Mr.D.M.Macpherson, of Lancaster \u2018the cheese king,\u201d is a guest at the Hall.For transient guests, tourists, travelers, or as a residence for families, no healthier or pleasanter place can be found than at the Balmoral Hotel, Montreal, ARCH ENEMIES MEET \u201cr.Mercler Pays His Compli« ments to Mr.Casgrain.DETERMINED TO OBTAIN JUSTICE, The Ex-Premier AnnounceS to the Public Accounts Committee That H!s Actions Will be Actuated With Such an Object in View-\u2014 The Fact Shown That Mr.Mercier Paid Out the $28,000.{Special to The Herald.] Ottawa, Feb.23.\u2014As may be supposed the Public Accounts Cominittee room was again crowded this morning, and the duel between Mr.Mercier and Attorney General Casgrain was continued with even greater violence snd amid greater excitement than yesterday, but order was preserved throughout, thanks to the firmness and impartiality of Chairman Hackett.At 11 o'clock the committee was called to order, and Mr.James Boivin, Deputy Provincial Secretary, continued his evidence, He had compared the list of payments made by Mr.Mercier to the Baie des Chaleurs claimants with the check stubs filed by Richard and found them identical.The exact amount paid out amounted to $08, 675.11 or $129.11 more than the amount deposited to Mr.Mercier\u2019s credit for the purpose.P.B.Dumoulin, manager of the Quebec branch of La Banque du Peuple, was then called, but at his request his evidence was delayed until to-morrow.: Mr.E.Moreau, director of railways, was called.He testified that he had in his possession the report of J.C.Langelier, special commissioner appointed by the Government to settle the claims outstanding against the contractors.Mr.Mercier.\u2014Will you state to the committee what are the contents of that report and whether the total amount of $28,548 was paid regularly and in full to the parties indicated by resolution of the House ?Was the report accompanied by the necessary vouchers, and in what do they consist ?Mr.Casgrain objected to the question on the ground that Mr.Mercier was not accused of appropriating the money, but of malfeasance in office in connection with it.MR.CASGRAIN\u2019S CONDUCT DENOUNCED.Mr.Mercier declared that he was not to be stopped by legal quibbles.He would not qualify Mr, Casgrain\u2019s conduct in thus endeavoring to prevent him from provin conclusively that he had been the victim o malicious and contemptible calumny, that during over two years his opponents had deliborately plotted to ruin his reputation and had persecuted him as few public men ever had been in any country.He appealed to his colleagues for justice.1f the Attorney-General\u2019s objection is maintained, he said, I will be unable to obtain from the witness the vouchers which are my justification.If this was refused it would be useless for me to make any farther effort to disculpate myself, but the country will judge between me and the minister who fears to grant me fair plav.The Attorney- General, ne said, «new that the accusation was false when he made it.He was quite well aware that all the vouchers were in the railway department.Mr.Casgrain protested that it was not the Government\u2019s intention to stop the enquiry.They simply wished that the report be produced before the witness was questioned thereon.Well, replied Mr.Mercier, you know very well that if the report was produced it is so voluminous that the members would not have time to go over it before prorogation, so that you would then have virtually succeeded in burking the enquiry.Surely the committee will not allow that.Mr.Tessier, of Portneuf, said the rules of evidence as observed before the law courts were applied to committees only in exceptional cases.In this case it would be an evident injustice to prevent Mr.Mercier from clearing himself, RESENTED AN ACCUSATION.Several members here interrupted in loud and angry tones; others interrupted too.Mr, Mercier\u2019s voice was heard\u2019 above the others, accusing the government of branding him as a thief and then preventing him m ex posing the cowardly falsehood.Mr.Casgrain protested that the government had never called Mr.Mercier a thief, He was ready to give him fair play, but objected to illegal evidence.Ur.Mercier reiterated his statement thas the government had endeavored to brand him as a thief, and that the Attorney- General had, tojeffect this, been guilty of deliberate falsehood.He would not be silenced by loud words and would call things by their proper names.Mr.Stephens here rose te m question of order.He was desirous that Mr.Mercier should be granted fair play.He had no doubt that the committee would act rightly towards him.What was wanted was facta, and any attempt to suppress them would be resented, but Mr.Mercier had no right to impute motives.If he wanted, to do so there were other places where it might be done without violating parliamentary rules, Mr.Mercier rose to reply to Mr.Stephens, when he was interrupted by Mr.Du.plessis on another point of order.This gave rise to another angry scrimmage, to which chairman Hackett put a stop by declaring that Mr.Mercier had no right to impute motives to the attorney-general, but that he was at liberty to continue his speech, and should not be interrupted.Well, fire away, said Mr, Casgrain, If is you who should fire away, retorted Mr.Mercier, Ir.Casgrain\u2014You may have percei that I sometimes do with foot, Perceived r.Mercier\u2014Yes ; but a British ju declaring me guiltless has thereby uy bY you guilty of falsehood.ANOTHER SCENE ENSUED and a running fire ot abuse was ex aoross the table, changed Mr.Tessier at length found a way ont the difficulty by suggesting that the or ness should read the commissioner's report.This was consented to and Mr.Moreau read the commissioners\u2019 report.Mr.Mercier asked whether there Were vouchers for the full amount.Mr.Duplessis objected to this on the ground that the only thing witness could be allowed to do wus to produce the vouchers and not to testify as to their value.Mr.Mercier asked Mr.Duplessis to forego his objection in order to allow him to isculpate himself as soon as possible.If Mr.Duplessis were in the same situation as he, he would understand how anxious he wes to So so.r.Duplessis persisted in his obiecti and Mr.frercier asked the viens Le dos duce the vouchers.He did so forthwith and, in answer to questions by the ex.Premier, testified that they covered the whole sum with the exception of $105.The Commissioner had given him satisfactory explanations respecting the em this balance which had been plopment iN small sams.As Director of Railways, he had reported the facts to Mr, Nantel, commissioner of railways, ! The cominittee then adjourned to meet again to-morrow morning. Femme ME ii = 07 -be rendered them.de en as = AAR me eme MONTREAL DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1893.A YEARS GOOD WORK The Herald\u2019s Annual Scoop on its Contemporaries.COMPLETE REPORT OF THE BRIGADE.How They Worked at the Fires Dur=~ ing 1892\u2014The Property Destroy- ed\u2014The Fires of the Year and How They Were Caused-\u2014List of Officers and Men-Fatalitles of the Twelve Months.HE Fire Depart- gro?ment of Montreal, ÿ owing to certain cir- Ÿ cumstances attending the two large fires of recent date, has been freely criticised by both press and public.Yet, during the past year, the brigade has done good work and a resume of this work is given to the public through the columns of The Herald this morning.On May 16, 1892, The Herald secured a \u201cbeat\u201d on all its contemporaries by exclusively publishing the official report of the work done by the department during the preceding year.This morning The Herald again publishes exclusively the annual report of Chief Benoit and the other heads of departments for 1892, some months earlier than last year, and under existing circumstances this information cannot fail to interest the citizens of Montreal.CHIEF BENOIT'S ANNUAL REPORT.To the chairman and members of the Fire Committee.Gentlemen\u2014-It behoves me to present for your consideration a synopsis of the duties performed by the fire brigade during the course of the year 1892.It has been a very laborious period and proves forcibly how important it is to ever maintain the efficeney of the department.It is true, great strides have been made towards perfecting the department during the latter years, but it must not be forgotten that the city is gaining every day in magnitude, both in the number and costliness of its buidings, public and private, whichit ismomentous, and our duty to protect against distruction by fire, as science and experience teaches us.A most tangible proof of the success of the fire department to extinguish fires is furnished by perusal of the official fire records, from which it will be seen that the percentage of fires of over one hour for the last thirty years was as follows: PERCENTAGE OF BIG FIRES.The percentage of fires lasting over one hour, to the restof the fires for the period of 30 years is: \u2014 \u2014 - Year Year Year 1863| 1 in 9 1873| 1 in 7 1883| 1in 11.4 1864 \u201c 9 1874 \u201c 9 1884 ** 10,6 1865 \u201c 10.5] 1873] \u201c 6.3j/ 1885 \u201c14 1866 \u201c46 1876 \u201c 2 1886! \u201c12 1867 \u201c82 1877) 14.5] 1887 \u201c10.7 1368 \u201c 1,7| 1878 \u201c15 1888 \u201c 178 1869 \u201c 9.6| 1879 \u201c 10.3/ 1889 \u201c 20 1870 \u201c\u201c 12,5} 1880 \u201c 17 1890 \u201c 184 1871 \u201c 10 1881 12 1891 \u201c 162 1872 \u201c14.40 1882 \u201c14 1392 \u201c 236 These figures speak for themselves and need no further arguments, yet better results can be achieved, and I may assure you that I shall strive and attain to that end, but for this purpose I require the active co-operation = of the council which I may state, however, has not been wanting in the past.A verysmallincrease over the previous year is noticed in the total mumberof calls to which the ' brigade has had tu answer during the \u201c7g year.820 is the @& number; 664 were © for actual fires, and Cur Z.BENOIT, 156 were alarms.Of M.F.D.these 59 were false.Of the total alarms 204 were \u201c\u2018still,\u201d the remainder came in on the electric system.FATALITIES OF THE YEAR.It is my painful duty to have to register this year, the death of six humau beings, the direct cause of which was fire.These deaths happened as follows: On July 18th, a man was killed by the falling of a wall at the hay store of Messrs Brosseau and Marsan, 26 Grey Nun street, which was then on fire.He was an employee of the sae firm.On September2nd, the department was called out for a fire in the old Chambly Hotel, Jacques Cartier square.It was then early in the morning and the inmates were sound asleep.The building was a solidly built stone structure, but the partitions inside were wooden, and being dry by old age burned like tinder.Four oor unfortunate men, boarders in the hotel, never awoke from their sleep, and weresuffocated before any assistance could Several were more or less-injured by jumping out ofthe windows to save their lives.On November 11th, a womon killed herself, by jumping from a window of a burning building, and crushed her head on the pavement below.This wasat No.1553 St.Catherine street.The occurrence of simular fatalities in the future as the latter can be avoided if proper means of egress are provided in uildings,and suitable and safefire escapes, portable or otherwise, are located and kept in proper places.The numerous stores now erected, over which dwellings are situated, such as was the case in the instance referred to above, are obviously more dangerous than ordinary dwelling4 being above places where goods of various descriptionsare kept,and which are some times of a very inflammable nature.This question of fire escapes is a very momenteous one, and should receive the close attention of the proper authorities.I might say as a precautionary measure 1 have, accompanied by the district chiefs, visited several of the most important buildings of the city so as to have a personal knowledge of the interior arrangements of these edifices which will bea greathelp to us in case of an outbreak of fire in any of them.In many instances we have recommended meanstodeminish the prob- abileties of fire and also for the better protection of life.This work will be continued next year and I am confident with good results.\u2019 ANIMALS BURNED.Thirty-four horses and two cows perished in the flames during the year.MOST SERIOUS FIRES WHEN AND WHERE.The most serious fires during the year 1892, and those at which the most important losses were sustained are given as follows : January 20th.23 Victoria Square, St.Antoine Ward, Messrs.Mills, Hutchison & Co., wholesale dry-goods.Total loss.January 21st.24 Foundling Street, West Ward, Russel\u2019s Furniture Ware- house and Feed and Provision store.Almost total loss.February 10th.74 to 78 College street, St Ann\u2019s Ward, Coal Sheds, heavy damage.March 24th.280 St.Lawrence street, \u201cGeneral Bazaar Stores,\u201d heavy damage.March 25th.63 to 63 Commons strect, St.Ann's Ward.Hay stores.Considerable damage.April 3rd, Commissioners street, East Ward, Bonsecours Market.Considerable damage.(At this fire, which was of incendiary origin, the entire brigade worked from 11 A.M.to 5 P.M., being summoned three different times, the fire seing very hard to j\u2018et at and breaking out anew several times after it was thought to have been extinguished.) \\ May 3rd.31 Mill ; street, St.Ann's JOHN Navp, sr.Ward, Paint Works, Sub-chicf, considerable damage.May 6.Wharf.Hansa Line freight shed.Total loss.At this fire the brigade worked several days.June 7th.295 St Lawrence street, St.Lawrence Ward.Dry-goods stores.Heavy damage.July 5th.2082 Notre Dame street, St.Ann's Ward.Pork Packing establishment, heavy damage.July 18th.145 William street, Clendinneng\u2019s foundry and paint shops destroyed and other establishments heavily dainaged.July 18th.26 Grey Nun street, St.Ann's Ward, Hay store, house destroyed.An assisting fireman was killed at this fire hy a falling wall and several men of the department were injured.August 24th.219 Do Lorimier Avenue, St.Mary\u2019s Ward, Metropolitan Rolling Mills.Destroved.September 12th.° 51 to 35 Jacques Cartier Squarc, East Ward, Chambly Hotel.At this fire 4 imnates of the hotel were suffocated and several others were badly injured.October 10th.Rear of 623 St.Panl street, St.Ann's Ward, Old Brewery building.Consider- Epwarp JACKSON, able damage.Oc- Sub-chief.tober 28th.30 Dowd street, St.Lawrence Ward, Paper Box factory.Badly damaged.November 11th.1553 St.Catherine street, St.James Ward, Dry goods store.Badly damaged.At this fire a woman was killed by jumping fromm a window.November 24th.1432 Notre Dame street, East Ward, Hotel and Resteraunt.Considerable damage.December 25th.1049 Dorchester street, St.Antoine Ward, Private residence.Heavy Damage.December 29th.15 St.Peter street, West Ward, Provision Warehouse.Considerable damage.NEW STATIONS AND APPLIANCES.A new salvage wagon, to replace the one temporarily stationed in No.6 fire station, has been fully equipped and placed under the charge of a foreman.The wagon has been located in No.14 station, St, Jean Baptiste ward, answering to calls in the upper portion of the city, thus relieving the other wagons in the lower part from having to make long and often unnecessary runs up hill.During the year twelve Bangor ladders have heen purchasedby the department, 3 extension and 7 single ladders.They have been distributed among the varions stations and placed on the ladder trucks.Six thousand feet of hose were also purchased during the year.New stations in St.Gabriel and St.Jean Baptiste wards were inaugurated and officially opened on the 1st of May.They are large and well arranged for the purpose intended, being also an ornament in the localities where they are built.The apparatus\u2014it is needless to state what is actually wanted, as at present it is all in good order and kept so at all times.This is an item on which it is difticult to figure the exact amount required for repairs, as they are subject to many accidents going to, at, or returning from fires.The stations have been receiving a good deal of attention in the matter of repairs.No.3 station was extensively overhauled.It was enlarged considerably, more room and better quarters provided for both men and horses by the removal of the assistant chief, who is now supplied with a dwelling outside of the station.Then follows the list of necessary repairs for stations during the coming year.DEPARTMENT REQUIREMENTS.The Finance committee has considered favorably an application for special grants for new stations on the West and Hoch- elaga wards, but their action has not yet been sanctioned by the Council.It is to be hoped that this will be done at an early date so = as to push the work vigorously and with as little delay as possible.In reference to the station in the Wess J.BECKINGIIAM, Sub-Chief.ward it would be well if the old Central Station (No.1) was sold.The amount thus realized could then be applied to the building of a new station in the centre of St.Lawrence ward, and probably something might be left to pay part of the building of the new Central Station in the West ward, at or near St.Ann\u2019s market.THE NEW COLLERET LADDER.The new extension truck ladder recommended to be acquired, is one the model of which has been submitted to your committee, and has obtained the highest ecomium for the ingenuity displayed in its construction and new features shown.The inventor, Mr.Collerette, is a member of the fire brigade, who accompanied the civic delegation of the World's Fair buildings, where the model was exhibited to the fire department authorities, as it was also in several other American cities, and everywhere it was considered one of the best ladder designs, if not the best in existence.The compliments paid to Mr.Collerette speak well of the excellence of his invention, which deserves the fullest encouragement and confidence in the ultimate success of the ladder when built.MORE STATION IMPROVEMENTS WANTED.The station adjoining St.Gabriel market on Centre street, Point St.Charles, known as No.9, is well nigh out of date and unfit for a fire hall.A few years ago it was enlarged and underwent considerable repairs, but the supporting parts of the building are pretty well gone, subjecting the structure to cousiderable sinking and deterioration that requires attention every year.The captain's dwelling is a great deal too small and the worst in the department.A new station in this district is consequently needed.No.12 station, on Seigneurs street, while the building is yet good and substantial, requires to be enlarged or else a new station provided.The locality where it is situated is surrounded by large and important buildings, and in the centre of a vast manufacturing district.A great deal more apparatus than what is there kept at present is absolutely necessary in that locality.No.11 Station, corner of Beaudry and Ontario streets.This station is far from any of the other fire stations and stands in a densely populated district.It also will require to be enlarged so as to make room for a hook and ladder truck.The ground for this purpose will have to be purchased so that this will have to be also included with the rest of the new stations and other requisites in the estimates submitted to the Board of Chairman for 1893.SINGLE HOOK AND LADDER TRUCKS.Our single hook and ladder trucks by the addition of extra ladders have been made so heavy, as to require the power of another horse to quickly reach the scene of a fire, We have six single trucks at present and that number of horses will be required.THAT WATER TOWER AGAIN.I have mentioned the fact of the favorable consideration by the Finance Committee of your recommendation for new stations and an extension truck ladaer, but unfortunately they thought fit to refuse the grant for a water tower.A new demand may be made in 1893, and perhaps with better success.This machine has rendered invaluable service in the several American cities where in use, and will incontestably be of an immense advantage to our fire department in extinguishing with success extensive fires.1 partment in 1888, at the same time Mr- Benoit was elected chief of the brigade.CAUSES OF FIRES.The following is Secretary Fred.D'Amour\u2019s interesting and carefully prepared list of the causes of fires during the year.Exploding coal oil lamps head the list with 59 fires.Chimney fires make a good second with 55 to its credit.Defective chimneys caused 36 outbreaks, and children playing with matches were the cause of 32, while carelessness with cigars and pipes are credited with 25 fires.The remaining causes were as follows : Boiling grease, tar, varnish, etc., 6; bakers\u2019 ovens, 1; burning grass, 2; burning straw, 1; carelessness with matches, 16 ; carelessness with light, 10 ; coal oil can explosion, 1; defective ovens, 7; drying wood in stoves, 1; defective grates, 3 ; electric wires, D ; fire crackers and fireworks, 3; friction of machinery, 3; fires rekindled, 10 ; plaster drying furnace, 1 ; gas jets, 12; gas explosions, b ; gas pipe leaking, 2; hot ashes, 2; lamps upsetting, 16 ; lime, 2 ; oil stove explosions, 3; overheated furnaces, 9 ; overheated ranges, 3 ; overheated boilers, 8 ; overheated smoke houses, 2 ; defective ovens, 2 ; plumbers\u2019 stoves, 4 ; spontaneous combustion, 15; overheated stoves and pipes, 16 ; sparks from chimneys, 9; sparks from furnaces, 1; sparks from locomotives, 2; sparks from other fires, 3 ; thawing water pipes, 10 ; tar on fire, 4 ; trolley wires, 1 ; vermin with matches, 4 ; and incendiary known and supposed, 27.FALSE ALARMS, ETC.During the year the brigade were called out needlessly for 60 false alarms : 3 tines for back draughts, 9 for drying plaster; 4 for fumigating houses, 2 for reflections from gas and fires, 4 for smoke from stoves, 1 for smoke from oil stove, and 1 for steam issuing from a house.1.Nnmber of alarms.2.Number of actual fires.3.4.5.Fires lasting more than one hour, Fires of between five and ten minutes duration.Fires of between ten minutes and one hour duration.THE RECORD FOR THIRTY YEARS, \u2018he above chart shows a comparative statement of the number of alarms, actual fires, small and large, for each year for thirty years.say this notwithstanding the opinion to the contrary expressed in some quarters.EXTRA HOSE AND SALVAGE COVERS NEEDED.I wish to also suggest the purchase of about 10,000 feet of hose, and 150 salvage covers.I also suggest the purchase of a new double reel for No.13 station, Hochelaga, and a new single reel for No.10 station.MORE MEN WANTED.About twenty more men should be provided for in the estimates to be placed on the hook and ladder tracks where they are at present too few.The winter patrol has rendered good service, and the department in general is on as good a footing as can be expected at the means at its disposal.THE LATE CHIEF PATTON.Before concluding it is my sad duty to record here the sudden demise of my predecessor in office, the late ex-Chief William Patton.His was an active and eventful career replete with stirring and interesting events covering the volunteer firemen period, brimful in our days of amusing and interesting incidents, and the period of the reorganization of the department as a full paid one in 1863.He was made chief of the brigade in 1875, succeeding the late Chief Alexandre Bertram.Of his success as chief officer of the brigade I will say naught, it will suffice to state that he was a painstaking and honest worker, interested in the duties of his calling and a true fireman, liking the smell of fire as a true soldier loves the odor of gun powder.He was retired on account of old age in the latter part of 1888.CHIEF BENOIT\u2019S THANKS.In conclusion I will offer my thanks to your committee for the effective help extended to me at all times, as also to the several officers and men of the department who so ably seconded my efforts in maintaining the brigade in its present state of efficiency.To the fire alarm department and officials of the other civic departments, also wish to express my gratitude.I must not forget the fire commissioners, Messrs.Perry and Poirier, who have made their office so efficient that their disappearance would now be severely felt.Of our chairman, I unhesitatingly say that to him is due a large part of my success.I have the honor to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant.(Signed.) Z.BENOIT, Chief Fire Department.Fire DErr.HEADQUARTERS, City Haw, } Montreal, Dec.31st, 1892.THE BRIGADE SECRETARY.While no individual report is furnished by Mr.F.A.D' Amour, secretary of the department, still the entire labor of preparing the reports of the other officers for publication fall to his lot, and during a month or so past Mr.D\u2019Amour has been a very busy man.He has had a long experience in civic and brigade affairs, however, as he entered the service of the city in 1882 as a clerk in the boiler inspector's office and .A.D\u2019AMOCR, L Secretary M.F.B.was appointed secretary of the fire de- WHERE FIRE{ OCCURRED.The following shows a classified list of business and dwelling houses and other places which were on fire during the year.Private dwellings head the list with 260 fires, sheds come next with 55, and stables next with 52.Other places are alphabetically arranged as follows : Awnings, 1; auction rooms, 1; boot and shoe factories, 2; barber shops, 1; breweries and malt houses, 2; bakeries, 7; boot and shoe stores, 11; book and stationery stores, 1; blacksmith shops, 4; butcher shops, 3; boiler houses, 1; burning grass, 1; banks, 1; boarding houses, 2; coal sheds, 2; cart loads of hay, 2; carpenter shops, 5; crockery stores, 2; candy shops, 1; cars and locomotives, 3; clothing stores (retail), 1; carriage factories, 1; convents, 1; cigar factories, 1; cigar stores, d; candy manufactory, 1; cabinet makers shops, 6; confectionery stores, 5; carpet factories, 1; Corn Exchange building, 2, commission merchants, 3; churches, 1; colleges, 1; coal heaps, 4; dry goods stores, 20; drug stores (wholesale), 2; electric works, 1; electric cars, 1; fences, 5; furand hatstores 2; furniture stores, 4; fruit stores, 5; fruit stores, wholesale, 1 ; foundries, 7 ; fancy goods stores, 6 ; florists, 3 ; fireworks stores, 1 ; foundling institutions, 1; groceries, retail, 20; groceries, wholesale, 21; grain stores, 7 ; glove factories, 1; glass works, 1 ; hospitals, 1 ; hay lofts, 9 ; hotels, 8; hay stores, 7 ; hardware stores, retail, 4 ; handball courts, 2 ; hay press factories, 1; ice houses, 1; insurance com- paniès buildings, 1 ; Indian goods stores, 1 ; jewellery stores, 2; jails, 1; laundries, 1; lumber piles, 3; lamp and oil stores, 1; lamp factories, 1; markets, 4; manure piles, 3; nail works, 4 ; offices, 5 ; printing and book binding establishments, 5; plumbers shops, 1; pharmacies, 2; paint stores, 3 ; paint works, 4 ; pots of tar.2 ; photographer\u2019s establishments, 1; public halls, 1; picture framing stores, 1, pork packing stores, 3; post offices, 1 ; pattern shops, 2 ; paper stores (wholesale), 1 ; paper box factories, 2 ; rubbish piles, 7 ; restaurants, 7 ; rag stores, 1 ; railway depots, 2 ; rolling mills, 1 ; rubber works, 1; schools, 9; straw and hay in yards, 9; saloons, 8; saw mills, 5; steamboats and tugs, 3; second hand stores, 1 ; statue manufactory, 1; smoke houses, 1; stores and shops (unclassified), 3; storage yards, 2; saddlery establishments, 1; synagogues, 1; shipping sheds, 1;stores (unoccupied), 3; shirt and collar factories, 1 ; steps, 1; shooting galleries, 1 ; soap factories, 1; tailoring establishments, 5; tobacco stores, 2; trees, 3; tinsmiths shops, 1; telegraph offices, 1; telephone works, 1; tinware factories, 1; tailors furnishings (wholesale), 1; tobacco factories, 1; tanneries, 1; unfinished buildings, b ; varnish factories, 1; warehouses, 3; wine and spirit stores (wholesale), 1.HOSE IN USE.At the close of the year the department had in use 532 lengths, or about 26,600 feet of serviceable hose of the following makes, the number of lengths of each being given: Paragon, 248; Keystone, 125; Rob.Roy Cable, 110; Baker Fabrie, 25; Boston Jacket, 8; Boston Belting Co., 10; Jacket, 3; Merryweather, 2; Eurcka, 1.HOW FIRES WERE EXTINGUISHED.The following table shows the number of hydrant streams, the number of hand extinguishers, and the number of times buckets were used in extinguishing fires | during the year, also thenumber of timeg the different steam and chemical engines worked during the year : Ê 2 3 = ts 6 2228 £2 çà F2 ES sé Li diet hh 5) & F5 No.of Station En RRA LA OR À bo.cssesess eens 6 10 3 .5 Qscscsucsnecncune \u2026 4 02 \u2026 8 + Bia \u2026 58 1 & 1 bLce ces anenacane Le 32 \u2026 B 1 Blssssanacensrc00s Ta 4 \u2026.2 19 6.\u2018as 2% \u2026 .10 7.58 31 4 .8.L633.3 9.I 1 4 10.% 12 2 2 11.5 2 1 2 1200 ieee 29 6 2 .1 V3.20ec ce smec es 8 5 .\u2026 8 V4.eee reoner cesse 3 1B .5 15.0acovs cans sec se 8 2e + 1 16.22.00 0c sara esence 20 9 1 .2 This shows a total of 672 hydrant streams; 81 chemical engine streams, 320 hand fire extinguishers used by the department during the year, and that the steam fire engines were used at b fires.; During the year 58 fires were extinguished before the arrival of the firemen, and a few fires were put out by the use of snow and carrying burning goods out of buildings.THE SUPPLY OFFICER'S REPORT.The report of Mr.Joseph Beaulieu, supply officer and superintendent of horses, says : The past year has shown considerable improvement over previous years both in the fewer deaths of horses and less illness.This is fortunate, considering the hardships that the animals are subjected to in drawing heavy loads at high speed and standing frequently for hours in most tempestuous weather.During the year the brigade lost three horses, one a veteran who had seen seven years' service.Ton new horses were purchased during the year, two were sold and two exchanged.At present the department has 90 horses all, except- x ing eight, which will have to be replaced, being in good condition.Mr.Beaulieu recommends that in future two instead of y, one horse should be \"Z_ attached to the ordi- \u2014\u2014 nary hook and ladder Bangor ladders have y been added these (fi trucks weigh about , 3400 pounds.This Joserx BEAULIEU, experiment has al- Supply Officer.ready been tried on one truck, which is now drawn by a team, and has been found to work most satisfactorily.Mr Beaulieu closes with an urgent request for a more suitable building for departmental stores than the shed now in use, as this would enable the department to purchase larger quantities of requisites, consequently at alower price, thus effecting a saving in the cost of supplies.THE SALVAGE CORPS.The report of the several foremen of the salvage wagons is a lengthy document, embracing as it does, tabulated statements of the number of covers spread and the number of hand fire extinguishers used during every month of the year.During the year a new wagon was added to this division of the brigade, which is stationed at No.14 Station, St.Jean Baptiste ward, in charge of Foreman James Conquest.The reports show the following totals for the year : No.1 Salvage Corps, St.Gabriel street, in charge of Senior Foreman Dubois, spread 1066 covers and used 107 bab- cocks: During the year they reponded to 416 gong and 21 still alarms, No.2 Salvage Corps, Chahoillez square, Foreman Charles McAllister, spread 716 covers and used 43 babcocks.hey responded to 263 gong and 33 still alarms.The salvage wagon at No.6 Station, Foreman Ed.Brennan, from January to September, inclusive, spread 251 covers and used 36 babcocks.No.3 Salvage Corps, Foreman James Conquest, only in service from October, spread 57 covers and used 17 babcocks.THE BRIGADE PHYSICIANS\u2019 REPORT.Oswald Reni Chs.Tancrede La- The report of Dr.de Cotret and Dr.moureux, the brigade physicians, states that during the past\u2019 year the number of patients under their care had increased, but this is explained by the increase in the number of fires and the consequent hardships to which the men had been subject.Owing, how- evef, to the brigade having its own phy- 8 cians the \u2018llness of - tie mam and theitDR.O.R.ni CORTET, absence from duty M.F.D.was of less duration than if they had to secure medical aid themselves.During the year boxes had been placed.in each salvage wagon containing necessary remedies and dressing for temporary attention to firemen injured in the performance of their duties.The physicians point out the urgent need of funds for the mainten- ence of aroom in each hospital for the case of sick or disabled firemen.Several of the stations and officers\u2019 dwellings are in need of better sanitary arrangements and ventilation, and in view of the possibility of Montreal being visited by cholera during the coming summer, they urgently recommend that immediate attention be given to this matter, and also that all the brigade stables should be fitted with appliances for disinfecting purposes.THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE BRIGADE.The following are the present officers and men of the brigade : Z.Bexorr, Chief of the fire department.Jorn Navp, assistant chief, eastern district.Epwarp JACKSON, central district.JouN BECKINGHAM, assistant chief, western district.JoserH BEAULIEU, supply officer and superintendent of horses.O.R.pe CoTreT, M.D., and F.S.Lamoureux, M.D., department physi- clans.F.A.D'AMOUR, department secretary.No.1 Fire station, 607 Craig street, St.Lawrence ward.Captain and Chief Mechanical Engineer, John Nolan.Branchmen, George Benoit, Joseph Mooney, J.B.Presseau.En- rineer, John Taylor.Assistant, John Booth.Foreman of skinner ladder, J.Gilmour; driver, J.Endacott ; laddermen, T.J.Stafford, N.Ouimet, F.Jcannotte, l'.Buckley.Hosemaker, Alex.Ferguson.Sub-chief's driver, V.King.No.2 station.40 St.Gabriel street, Captain, Israel Bishop ; branchmen, W.J.McCulloch, J.Cunningham, .G.Dagcenais.Foreman of Salvage, C.Dubois; Salvage men, D.Guthrie, 0.Dufresne, S.Carpenter, E.Benoit.Foreman Chemical engine, T.Faucher: chemical men, J.Chevalier, A.Bastion.No.3 Station, 158 Wellington street\u2014Captain Philip H.Gibson; branchmen, John Benoit, H.Benoit, Thomas McMahon; hook and ladder truck driver, J.McGuire; assistant, J.Mul- cahy; engincer, R.Drouin; assistant, W.Britt No, 4 Station, 15 Chaboillez square\u2014Captain Picrro Prevost; branchmen, A.Perrier, P, Gagnon, O.Blais, L.Laroche; foreman of Salvage Charles McAlister; Salvagemen, A.Bisailion, W.J.Tuskeys, J.O'Rourk; foreman Hayes assistant chief, TH Residential Suburb F MONTREAL O Every the early developm estimate What, business by 1898 ?Canada.intimate had lived tinued, \u201c will buy up.what and you years a terested TELEPHO Canadian interest is bettered in view of vice, intimately connected as it is with the rapid means immediate increase of business, increase of population, city of Montreal.ears, tk » approximate for the next five.tions since 1888 ?What will it have grown to lantic seaboard i ter getti i have any time for such, after getting tnrongh with the greatness of our neighbors and their possible attitude to us.Nothing, however, t t nature has located Montreal right on the straight direct line connecting the commerce of the Fastern with the Western world.But we are digressing.Our intention was to in your reach, a nent Home at Montreal Junction.We met a gentlemen been a householder twenty-five years.ferent land lordes ond ight different times.4 Hr tary time was either lost, left behind, or did not fit the new house,\u201d and although I candidly admit that when I liked the moving, but now I never want to move again, is concerned, I need not.Add to this what you can do, what self-reliance, thrift, independence, how much interested becoming the are a tenant, yourself ; C v in this important matter of business thrift.The plan for drainage and water is being prepared.E HIGH-CLASS accomplishment of a fast Atlantic ser.ent of the Canadian Northwest, which and increase of wealth for the If it be somewhat difficult to the growth of values during the past it would be indeed a stupendous for instance, lias been the growth of at the Bonaventure and Windsor sta.Practically Montreal is the chief At.city for the whole Dominion of Here is food for thought and home, \u2014 can alter the fact that that we could possibly put with- bo jou New.a Beautiful and Perma- «The High-Class Suburb, last summer who had in Montreal for the last Married at twenty-five, he in eight different houses, had eight dif- loaded and unloaded his furni- \u201c Something \u201d said was young I rather and my landlord says, as far as he \u2018 However,\u201d he con- The cost of eight moves in your house.you can fix you can beautify, what you can save, gel as a result : comfort, contentment, and in a few tiful home\u2014paid for.And then bons Sou will be in Montreal rival of New York.In case you it is the landlord who will be in- and you will reflect.Think over it for we are willing to co-operate with you \u201c7 reflect.\u201d you domestic comfort NE 8408, - MONTREAL JUNCTION.ARMSTRONG & COOK ladder, A.Briere; laddermen, James Cloran, M.Blanchet, J.Desroches, H.McCallum, Auley; foreman of chemical engine, Thomas Hogan, assistants G.Brissette, J.Gellan; storekeeper, J.C.Pare.ENa.5 Station, 2220 St.Catherine street\u2014 \u2019aptain, William Mann; branchmen, John Gordon, J.Brophy, A.Mann; foreman\u2019 chemical engine, Richard Bennett; enginemen, P Oreilly, V.Blanchet, No.6 Station, 1591 Ontario street\u2014Captain, Napo'~on Peltier; branchmen, esscau, Luiivie, O, Marin; foreman Dorval ladder, Pierru Richard; laddermen, J.Richard, J.Da- enais, À.Lugenals, A.Adam, J.Gobier, L.S.obin; chicf\u2019s driver, A.Lauderman.No.7 Station, 3 Dalhousic Square\u2014Captain, Jas.Doolan; branchnien, G.Reynolds, King, J.Laberge.MH.Holbrook; engineer Silsby steamer, C, Turgeon; assistant, F.McKercher; driver, P.Desy.No.8 Station, 51 Craig street\u2014 Captain, Joseph T.St.Pierre; branchmen, C.Senccal, L.S Charron, A.Aubertin ; foreman Langevin- Thibault ladder.C.Giroux: assistant, Amable Dagenais ; ladder men, N.Carbonneau, KE.Breman.O.Boisclair, A.Daunais: foreman hook and ladder truck, J.Gagnon ; assistant, F.Asselin.No.9 Station, Centre street\u2014Captain, Thomas Mangan.branchmen, W.Murphy, A.Espie, R.Hocy; engi ec , William Patton; assistants, A.Pigeon, D.Bernett; driver of coal wagon, L.Lussier.No, 10 Station, 2113 St.Catherine street\u2014 Captain, William Sparling: branchmen, Robt.Johnson, A.David, A.McCulloch: foreman hook ard ladder truck, W.McDonald; assistant, P, A.Dufour; engineer, Leon Bellefeuille; driver, J.B.Gravel; assistant chief driver, J.Courvilic.No.11Stdtion, 1118 Ontario street\u2014Captain, Franc Roch: hjanchmen, Paul Charest, L.S.etu, N, Furelle; enginecr, A.Pelletier; Assi: ante, \u20180.Laveille, V.Merincau.st- No.12 Station, 318 Seigneurs street\u2014Captai Johnston Mitchell; branchmen, J.Barth, vw G.Elliott, R.Wiggins; engincer, Francis Carroll; driver, and assistant, A.Dubois, L.St Aubin.\u2019 No, 13 Station, 43 Desery street\u2014Captain, J.Naud rs brauchmen.F.Thibault, J.Hardi- gan, W., J.Harper: foreman hook ë 3) truck, E.Cazavan, T, Varin, and ladder No.14 Station, 867 St.Dominique str Captain, Joseph Renaud; brakenien, Get Viau, H.Charbonneau, E.Nelson, R.Colleret J.Jette; foreman of salvago, James Conquest, salvage men, O, Lacasse, IL.Brosseau; foreman hook and ladder truck, D.Corbeille, T.Starie.No.15 Station, corner of Hibernia Ro Mullin street \u2014 Captain, William ecrans branchmen, F.X.Durocher, J.Gilbert, J! Hudon; foreman hook and ladder truck; J.McHugh; assistant, A.G.Launicre.ne No.16 Station, corner of Rachel and A street\u2014Captain, Joseph Naud; Pranciane Tr Laporte, C.Laïieur, P.Benoit; engincer, F, Bouchard: assistant, A.St.Pierre.To Death of Rufus Hatch, New York, Feb.23.Rufus Hatch well-knowif broker, is dead.He died at the house here at 3 o'clock.Mr.Hatch was 62 - years of age.TWO KINDS OF WOMEN need Dr.Pierce's Favorite Prescription \u2014 those who want to be made strong, and those who want to be made well, It builds up, invigorates, regulates, and cures.Its for youn girls just enteriné womanhood ; for Women who have Teached the critical \u2018 .\u2018change of life\u201d; for women expecting to become moth \u20ac ers; for mothers who are nursing and exhausted ; for every woman whe is run-d i ~do or overworked, wi, delicate, For all the disorde i weaknesses of women, © Faeases, pra doesn\u2019t benefit or cure, the money will be returned.© Case, CHARGE OF GRAND LARCENY.Harris Abraham, Formerly of New York, in Trouble in Toronto.Toronto, Ont., Feb.23.\u2014On a charge of grand larceny, Harris Abraham, a Polish Jew, until recently a resident of New York, is under arrest here.It appears that in the summer of 1892, the prisoner, who wasa clock manufacturer, obtained from Boess- rock, Broesel & Co., of New York, goods to the amount of $4,000.He failed to pay for them as agreed and some mountha afterwards made an assignment.The New York firm determined to follow Abraham and when they located him in Toronto sent their agent, who had a writ of copias issued a few days ago.Bail was fixed at $3,934.Abraham will remain in the custody of the sheriff until he gives special bail in the sum mentioned, or can show some reason why he should be set free.The Mongolian\u2019s Passengers.Halifax, Feb.23.\u2014 Royal mail steamer Mongolian arrived with the following cabin passeugers on board: Rev.Mr, Armit, Mrs.Armit, Mr.E.atherton, Mr.W.F.Barclay, Mr.J.Clay, Mr.G.R.Crook, Rev.F.Curran, M.J.C.Gordon, Mr.I Go- thorp, Nrs.Gothorp and infant, Capt.De- lape, Mrs.Ost, Miss Ost, Mr.W.H, Rans- ford, Mr, Schlesinger, Mrs, Prior Desaone, Mr.Westerman, fir, A.L.Whitehead, Mrs.Whitehead and two children, and 101 intermediate, 85 steerage passengers.R.G.Meikle Assigns.[Special to The Herald.} Lachute, Feb.23rd.\u2014Mr.R.G.Meikle, bauker, of this place, and also owner of the grist and saw mills, has made an assignment.His assets greatly exceed his liabilities, but not being immediately realizable, he was forced to assign, and depositors have no need to be apprehensive.Mr.C.Meikle has been appoiuted provisional guardian.There will be a meeting of creditors at St.Scholastique on March 10thee LEGAL NOTICES.VOLUNTARY LICITATION.\u2014 WILL BE | sold by public auction on Friday, the 3rd March next (i893), at eleven o'clock A.M.in the office of the undersigned Notary, Room 305, New York Life Building, the following lots of land belonging to the estate of the late John Ostell, to vit: 1.Four lots of land known and designated under the numbers thirty-eight (38), thirty-nine (39), forty (40), forty-one (41), of the official subdivision of the lot number ten (10), on the of- flcial plan and book of reference of the St Jean Baptiste Village, in the District of Montreal with the buildings thercon erected, bounded in front by Mentana street.,2 Two vacant lots of land known and designated under the numbers five hundred and seventy-two (572) and five hândred and seven, ty-three (573) in the official plan and book reference of the St.Ann's Ward of the city of Montreal, bounded in front by St.Etienne street.For the conditions apply to N.PERODÉAU, N.P.Montreal, 7th February, 1893, CALLING IN CREDITORS.| Province of Quebec District of Montreal.In the Superior Court for the Province of Quebec, No.48, Inthe matter of Bernhardt Kortost, of the city and district of Montreal, furrier trading under the style of Kortosk & Co.» solven Tha creditors of eaid insolvent are hereby ordered to appear before one of the judges © | this court, in the Insolvency office, in the Court House, at Montreal, on the seventh day of larch next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, in order to give their advice touching the appointment of a curator tothe property 0 the said insolventand on such other matters a8 may lawfully be submitted to them.H.COLLARD, Deputy Protonotary.Montreal, 2d February, 1893. I rh T= id ch se to st us of a t- of id | WHAT TO WEAR The Correct Thing in Dress Spring Days.Among the general rules to be observed by those wha aspire to stylish elegance of appearance, the first and most important is that all efforts must tend to widening the shoulders by means of large, full sleeves and lace drapings over the shoulders and across the breast; and the second is that equally strenuoos efforts be brought to bear to do away with all protuberances about the Lips by means of most carefully fitted princess gowns worn over equally well-shaped corsets and undergarments.White petticoats of very thin, fine nawn are quite the rage.Some of the lewest are several inches shorter than the black silk petticoat.They are elaborately ruffled and puffed, and trimmed with lace and embroidery.The handsomest cloak for an elderly lady who does not wish black velvet is black pean-de-sole, the lustreless black satin.It is made in broad flat box plaits reaching to the floor, with some superb jet on the bodice, and with its full sleeves make one of the quietest but most elegant garments imaginable, The very wide revers, known as the * Empire,\u201d are most effective on house dresses of scarlet, pink or blue crepon, and though made of black satin, no other portion of the gown needs to be of the sombre shade.The narrow black velvet ribbon with colored edges has come back looking just as it did in the early sixties.Even the baby ribbon has colored edges.The scarlit- edged black is pretty on children\u2019s hats.Shoes grow more and more pointed and foot doctors rejoice.Figures wonld fail to compute the misery and suffering and bad temper that are caused by narrow- toed shoes.for Early Lady Aberdeen, The appointment of Lord Aberden to the Governor-Generalship of Canada is a most happy one, and certain to prove satisfactory to all concerned.Lady Aberdeen is one of the most popular of the Liberal ladies.She is young, very pretty, and very enthusiastic.Slight in figure with a rather pale but speaking face, dark hair and eyes.She is a religous devotee on strictly Calvinistic principles, and an ardent Home Ruler.Mr.Gladstone has no firmer friend than Lord Aberdeen, whose father played the same role of Damion to the Premier\u2019s father\u2014 nor no stauncher advocate than the pretty countess.Lady Aberdeen is moreover she editor of two magazines.* Onward and Upward \u201d is the last she has brought out, the initial number of which appeared at Christmas-tide, with a frontispiece of her two little bows.Lord Haddo, and the Hon.Jan.Archibald Hamilton Gordon, taken from thelife size portrait which is to be exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair.Lady Aberdeen\u2019s only daughter, Lady Murjorie Gordon, though only thirteen years of age, is also a literary personage.She edits a child\u2019s magazine which sells 1s a ha\u2019 penny weekly.Peerages Recently Become Extinet.The peerages which became extinct in 1892, besides the Dudcdom of Clarence and Avondale, are given as the Marque- sate of Drogheda, the Earldom of Charle- cote, vhe Viscounty of Sherbrooke and the Baronies of Bramwell and Winmar- leigh.The lesser titles of Earl of Drog- heda end Viscount Charlemont; however, still survive.Between the 1892 and 1893 editious of ¢* Burke \u201d six Dukes died\u2014the Dukes of Clarence, Devonshire, Manchester Marlborough, Roxburghe and Sutherland one Marquis (Drogheda); eight Earls, (Charlemont, Denbigh, Eglinton, Errel, Essex, Harewood, Leitram and Litchfield); three Viscouuts (Dillon Hampden and Sherbrooke), and ten Barons (Abinger, Bathurst, Bramwell, Beaumont, Castlemaine, French, Stafford, Tennyson, Teynham and Winmarleigh).Seventeen Baronetcies have been created and three have become extinct, while thirty-two Baronets have died.Two Dukedoms and sixteen Baroness have been created, three peers have been promoted, and one peerage, that of Conyers.has been called out of abeyance in favor of the Countess of Yarborough.\u2014London Daily Ness.Practical Home Training.When manual training with its domestic economy deparment of cooking and sewing was being urged as a necessary part of public school training, teachers and wise men brought forth the argument \u2018\u2018 that it is not needful for mothers to teach these branches, and our girls are being brought up without practical household training.\u201d One summer a lady had 260 girls from offices, stores and factories to board during two weeks\u2019 vacation.At the end of the summer she found that but nine of the number knew how to make a bed, and many of them it a boast that they \u2018had never made a bed in their lives.\u201d Some of them did not even know whether a sheet or blanket should go on first.And these are not destitute girls, but such as represent our self respecting wage earners-girls who were boarders, paying a fair price, and yet who were expected to make their own beds.Mothers had not trained them.There are hundreds of bright, intelligent girls of 15, 16, 18 and even older, who have never sewed, and do not know wether a thimble should go an their thumb or forefinger.What kind of wives and mother are they to make ?London Telegraph.Long Engagements.The girl who allows herself to be cajoled to a long engagement stands one cLance in ten of being married to that particular man.He comes, admires and thinks best to secure her, although he is not in a position to ask.Some men are selfish ereatures.After a year in the ¢ Seventh Heaven \u201d life begins to be prosaic again, and their love floats along a placid sea.After several years of waiting, when the girl has begun to lose her youth and beauty, the tide turns in their favor.the harbor is in sight and all seems well.But here comes a smooth sailing little oraft directly across their bows.There is a orash.The lover clings to the newly found ship and leaves the other to sink or be tossed upon the beach lone.The moral is obvious.\u2014 Leisure Hours, The Voluminous Petticoat.Ben Jonson wrote ahout the full petticoat the charming lines from which the title of this meditation is taken._ Sir Joshua Reynolds must have liked it, so \u2018\u201c winning \u201d was the \u2018 wave \u201d under his pencil, 80 joyous the rush of folds in his inimitably charming garden portraits.Gainsborough must have found in its stately concealment.an added point, as it were, to tne ladyhood he understood so finely.Goldsmith must have delighted in it when his Marlow called up before his appalled vision the formidable image of \u2018\u2018a modest woman in all her finery ; \u201d that modest woman sailed through the century like a ship.Congreve must have loved it when he set his charming Millamant strutting, freshly powdered, up and down the stage, repeating Suckling to her capricious self.And not only to the eye has the full petticoat these undeniable, if arbitrary, beauties it signals to the ear.Tt is the sowrce of the frou-frou that struck one modern playwright, at least, as being feminine and precious.The woman clad in a short, close skirt goes as silently as a man.The woman in the wide petticoat is heard whispering down the corridors, and murmuring through the doorways, and flowing on the stairs, and crushing softly amid a group of evening dresses in full foliage, like never.silent forest tress in June.And, even as Ben Jonson noted with his eyes the tumultuous petticoat, a contemporary poet notes it with his ears, to quite as charming effect, when Mr.oventry Patmore rebukes his unreasonable \u2018\u2018 Mignonne \u201d for her jealous fear\u2014 With not the rustle of a rival near.No, the thing is decidedly not destes- table, It is not natural, it is not classic ; but is is attractively last-century, and Elizabethan, and wilful, ond engagingly artificial.\u2014Saturday Review.The Goodwill Club.The Goodwill Club, an organization of working girls founded in- 1888, held their annual meeting yesterday in the American Presbyterian church.There were about 15 resent, including members and guests.ev.Mr.Bland occupied the chair and gave a short address in which he spoke of the character of the club.The work of the society is founded on principles of love and good fellowship, and this was far better than a superabundance of theological teachings and forms.He congratulated the club on its success.Miss Copel.the president, then read her report, in which she stated the objects and aspirations of the club.It was not a charitable society in the ordinary seuse of the word, but in its true sense of love and goodwill.Its motto is \u2018Helping together by prayer.\u201d Since the club was founded over two hundred girls have joined.The secretary\u2019s report, read by Miss Howard, shows good progress made in the work of of the society.A Bible classis held on Sunday afternoons and every alternating Monday.There is also the domestic branch, which meets twice weekly when practical.The treasurer\u2019s report shows receipts and expenditure to be just even.At the close of the year 1892 the club was $104 in debt, but since then this has been paid.The finances are kept up by voluntary secret contributions.Formerly the support was principally straight proceeds from socials and other eutertainments.Several other reports were read, including the Holiday Home Committee.A friend of the club has kindly given a house in Longueuil.The present difficulty is in getting the rooms furnished.When this house is completed it will be a great advantage to many working girls.Points of Good Form.When a street gown is worn for breakfast it is quite correct to retain it for the family dinner at noon ; but a negligee morning wrapper does not look well and ill-health alone can excuseit.It can be worn for luncheon, as that is an informal | meal; yet, by that hour, every healthy woman should be thinking of taking some outdoor exercise if she has not already done so, and would better be ready for it, attired in a simple walking gown.Whether the evening meal is supper or dinner and the family life quiet and even plain, it is a pretty custom-and a refining example for children\u2014to dress for the occasion.Something bright and light then not only looks well, but cheers people, It is always good form to seal a letter with wax.Many devices are used for the seal.but nothing is better than a monogram or the initial of the surname.In the colors of wax fashion changes frequently ; all delicate colors are now used.Red is relegated strictly to business.Seleeted Receipts.Robotee.\u2014One pint of cold cooked meat, chopped fine, one-half of a small onion, two tablespoonfuls of butter, one cup of milk, two ounces of bread, eight sweet almonds, three eggs and one teaspoonful or curry powder.Put the butter in a frying pan, slice into it the onion, and fry until a nice brown ; add the bread and milk ; take from the fire and let stand ten minutes.Blanch and chop the almonds very fine; add these, the meat, the curry and the eggs, well beaten, to the ingredients in the frying pan ; mix all well together.Rub a deep pie dish with butter and the juice of a lemon ; put the mixture into this and bake in a moderate oven about twenty minutes.Serve with boiled rice in a separate dish.Mock Mince Pie\u2014To one cupful of chopped raisins add a cupful of rolled crackers, one cupful of good molasses, a cupful of dark brown sugar, one-half cupful of vinegar, one-half teaspoonful of cinnamon and one-half teaspoonful each of grated nutmeg, allspice and cloves.Stir thoroughly and add a teaspoonful of melted butter.Bake in a deep pie dish between two crusts.Butterscotch For butterscotch this is a simple receipt: Boil together until the syrup will snap when tested in cold water, one cupful each of sugar and New Orleans molasses, half a cupful of butter, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar and one- third of a teaspoonful of soda.Pour into a butterred tin when nearly cold, cut into squares with a sharp knife and wrap each in paraffine paper when cold.Excellent Pudding\u2014Half a pound of suet shredded fine, half a pound of grated bread crumbs, quarter of a pound of lvaf sugar, the yolks of four eggs and whites of two well beaten, two tablespoonfuls of orange marmalade of sliced citron, Put into a butter mould and boil for two hours.Serve with wine poured over it | or sauce.MONTIEAU DALLY LikRALD, FRIDAY.FEBRUARY 24, 1395, The Black Box Murder.BY MAARTEN MAARTENS, A0.4ù Loveil's Canadian Series.\u2014 I saw the gri start.She avoided my eyes, however, and sat looking out of the window.Mrs, Hopkins requireda moment or two to recover from lier amazement, but when she found breath.she burst into a volley of exclamations and protestations, which I calmly allowed to rattle past.At length, she calined down sufficiently, and I gathered from her the following facts: \u2014 The Rev.Austin had officiated at evening service on Sunday.He had preached.Mrs.Hopkins and Lucy had heard him.The service was over by half-past eight.Then there had been a mission service in the schoolroom.Lucy had remained for it.It had lasted till about 9.30, or a little later.Miss Lucy had come immediately after it was over, and had been in the house before ten.Both mother and daughter were sure of this, and Austin had come in shortly after her.He had rung at the front-door, and Mrs.Hopkins herself had admitted him.He looked tired and worried, and was very pale.He had said to her on the stairs, \u201cI have been delayed a few moments after the meeting by some people wanting to speak to me, otherwise I should have been glad to see your daughter home.It is not half-past ten yet, is it?\u2019 and Mrs.Hopkins, looking at the clock in the hall, had said, *\u2018Just on the stroke, sir;\u201d and, as she said these words, the clock had struck.She remembered all this distinctly\u2014the more so because of the talk about the murder afterwards.Mr.Harvey had said, \u201cWell, good night, I'm very tired,\u201d and he had gone up and locked himself into his bedroom.All this was very disappointing.According to all probability, the murder had been committed early in the night, before the unfortunate lady had attempted to undress.Ihad come to this conclusion in spite of the tumbled bed and emptied glass, I believed that these accessories Lad merely been used to lead the investigation astray.The deed had not been done in the morning\u2014it must, then, have been done before midnight.If Austin was concerned in it, he must, accordingly, have left his rooms again and betaken himself to the Marine Parade.Now, though I must verify my distances, I knew already that if Austin\u2019s lodgings were about half a mile from the church, the house on the Marine parade must be at least a mile farther yet, on the opposite side.Austin\u2019s church, and, still more, his apartments, were altogether outside the town, in a suburb.It was quite impossible that he could have got to his aunt\u2019s house and back in barely three- quarters of an hour.\u201c\u2018All that proves nothing,\u201d I said; \u2018what I want to know is, was he in his room all night?\u201d \u201cAnd of course,\u201d said Mrs.Hopkins, fndignantly; \u2018\u2018and where else should a gentleman be, pray?And what do you mean coming and asking such questions?I went up to my own bed at eleven, and I heard him breathing heavy in his sleep, which is a way he has; and next morning he got his hot water regular;and I, who sleep as light as a feather, as if I shouldn\u2019t have heard, indeed, if gentlemen were to go walking about the house at night\u201d Mrs.Hopkins was very much ruffled.\u201cAll the same,\u201d I said coolly; \u2018\u2018we want proof.\u201d Mrs.Hopkins sniffed angrily.I rose to take my leave.There was nothing more to be got out of the landlady.The girl, Lucy, jumped up from her seat simultaneously, and ran forward.\u2018Don\u2019t you trouble, mother,\u201d she said; \u201cI'll let the gentleman out.\u201d As we passed into the hall, she closed the parlor door behind me.Then she faced me.\u2018Is he accused?\u2019 she gasped; \u201c\u2018is he in danger?\u201d I saw my chance, and caught at it.\u201cIn very great danger,\u201d I said impressively, \u2018\u2018unless we can get to know exactly what he did that night.\u201d The girl faltered.Her color came and went.She made once or twice as if she would speak, and stopped short.\u2018All depends on that,\u201d I said.\u2018He never left the house,\u201d she burst out suddenly; \u201cI know he never did.\u201d \u201cAh, well, my dear,\u201d I said; \u201cbut do you know it?\u201d \u201cI do,\u201d she hissed.\u201cNever mind.Don\u2019t ask me.We were to have been married.I had never, neverlistened to him before.Don't tell my mother.He promised me.There, I've ruined myself to save him\u2014but he never left the house till eight o'clock next day.\u201d She began to sob so violently that I had to hurry off and leave her in the hall, much to my regret.I was afraid her mother would find us there together.It would have been extremely awkward.+ CHAPTER XXV.THE ARREST.As I left the house, and walked down the crescent, two results of my visit stood out clearly in my mind.The first was this: That it seemed, humanly speaking, entirely impossible that Austin Harvey could have been concerned in the murder.And the second was this, that, morally, at anyrate, the man might be considered capable of the crime.His sweetness, his powers of pleasing\u2014all that had attracted and blinded me\u2014all this was a mask, far more effective even than his profession and clerical dress.The man was a scoundrel.This discovery, or rather this confirmation of the vague disquiet of the last twenty-four hours, brought the possibility of Austin Harvey's guilt so much the nearer at the very moment when the actual facts seemed to remove it altogether beyond my grasp.I walked over the distance, and carefully measured them.My worst fears proved true.Austin lived more than a mile and a half from his aunt\u2019s lodgings, and his church stood at about one-third of the whole distance from his house.If it was true, as the girl had said \u2014and I had no reason to doubt her\u2014 that he had not left the house all night after he had once returned toit from the evening service, then the only time which I had not yet fully accounted for was the period from 9.45 to 10.20.Surely it was utterly impossible that he could in that time have walked two miles and a half, and done all that he had to doin the house.Was he, then, innocent?I knew he was not.There seemed to be just one chance forme.He might have driven in some conveyance from the church and back.It hardly seemed likely.For, if he had done so, it would have been as if he had summoned up testimony against himself.I made inquiries in the town, with which I need not trouble the reader.They led me to the not unexpected conclusion that on Sunday, and at that time of night, the curate could not have used acab without my being able to trace it.I was not able to trace it, and I became entirely convinced that no conveyance had been used.The afternoon wore away during these investigations.The more hopeless the facts seemed to become, the more desperately resolved I felt that the crime must be traced home to Austin Harvey.He was the guilty man.I knew it.He shall unt escape, I said.Nevertheless, at seven, I resolved to go back to London.1 had seen the clerk of St.Mary's.I had again seen the deaf old landlady at Miss Ray- nell\u2019s house.I had not learnt anything really new, except that Austin had left the vestry immediately after the second service, in great haste, before 9.45.1 was hungry, tired, and disappointed.I turned my steps to the direction of the railway station.(To be continued.) A Volcano in Colorado.Reports from Pagosa Springs, Colorado, seem tu contirm the existence of an active volcano within the limits of the United States.About a month ago a black smoke, mingled with whirls of flaming cinders, was seen to issue from a peak of the Padernal Range, some forty miles of Tierra Amarilla, in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.Ed.Cope, a trapper, who had established his winter camp near the headwaters of the Cama River, noticed the reflection of the fire-cloud on the evening of January 12, and heard a subterranean noise resembling the \u2018\u2018rolling of a heavy cart,\u201d and in the course of the next two weeks similar phenomena were noticed by the residents of Rio Chama and Pagosa Springs.An exploring party from the last-named place reports the discovery of a smoking chasm on the northeast side of Padernal Peak, and of a lava-stream connecting that chasm with a smaller gorge on a lower terrace of the same mountain range.Old Mexicanresi- dents remember a violent eruption of the Padernal crater in 1820, but the smoke- whirls subsided before the end of the next year, and the mountain, with its fringe of evergreen pines, has ever since looked as innocent as the exterior of a Nihilist bomb factory, though the extensive lavafields of its foothills attest its latent power for mischief.The peak rises from a conspicuous range about fifty miles southwest of Los Pinos Station, on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.An English Version of Columbus, The following story comes from a school in the midlands: The mater told the boys of the third- class to write a short essay on Columbus.The following was sent up by an ambitious essayist: ¢° Clumbus was a man who could make an egg stand on end without breaking it.The King of Spain said to Clumbus: \u2018\u2018Can you discover America?\u2019 \u2018yes,\u2019 said Clumbus, \u2018if you will give me a ship.\u2019 So he had a ship and sailed over the sea in the direction where he thought America ought to be found.The sailors quarrelled and said they believed there was no such place.But after many days the pilot came to him and said : \u2018Clumbus, I see land.\u2019 \u2018Then that is America,\u2019 said Clumbus.When the ship got near the land was full of black men.Clumbus said: \u2018Ys this America?\u2019 \u2018Yes, it is,\u201d said they.Then he said : ¢ I suppose you are the negroes ?\u2019 \u2018Yes,\u2019 they said, \u2018 we are.\u2019 The chief said : Clumbus.\u2019 \u2018You are right,\u201d said he.Then the chief turned to his men and said : \u2018There is no help for iti; we are discovered at last.\u2019 \"\u2014London \u2018Standard.\u2018I suppose you are How He Must Have Suffered.\u2018 Wonderful climate in Arizony.\u201d said the returned wanderer.\u201cI kunowed a feller to have twenty-seven bullets shot into him an\u2019 still git as well as ever.\u201d \u2018\u201c He must have suffered a great deal,\u201d \u2018\u201c\u201cHe did, pardner, he did.The pore feller was so full of holes that he couldn't hold whiskey.\u201d \u2014Indianapolis Jourdal.BIRTHS.FULTON-At 358 Peel street.on February 21, the wife of Edward M.Fulton, of a daughter.BRUNET \u2014In this city, on Feb, 20, the wife of Rodolphe Brunet, of a daughter.MOLSON\u2014At 267 St.Patrick street, Feb.21, the wife of F.W.Molson, of a son.RAPHAEL\u2014At 108 Shuter sirect, on Feb.18, Mrs.H.W.Raphael, of a daughter.MARRIAGES.ADLARD-BARKER\u2014At Toronto, Ont, on Feb.18, by the Rev, Dr.Wild, Sidney Adlard Louisa H.Barker, both of Toronto.WATT-ORR.\u2014At the residence of the bride\u2019s father, Feb.15th, by the Rev.C.M.Mackeracher, James Watt.of Point St.Charles, to Mary Erskine, daughter of Matthew Orr, Tres, St.Sacrament, County of Chateauguay.MARSHALL\u2014JACKSON.\u2014 At.St.Stephen, N.B., on Feb.11th, by Rev.John Anderson, B.D., George W.Marshall, to Alice King Jackson, both of St.James, Charlotte County.HANNAH\u2014BAIRD.\u2014At Halifax, N.S., on February 14th, by the Rev.Allan Simpson, \u2018Wm.Hannah to Lucy J.Baird,second daughter of Geo.Baird, of St.John's, Nfld.DEATHS.KEARNEY.\u2014At Boxton Falls, Mr.Patrick Kearney, merchant, at the age of 73 years native County Louth,lreland.Funeral takes place on Saturday, at 10.30 a.m.Friends and acquaintances please receive this intimation.ROSS\u2014At Toronto, Ont., on Monday, Feb.20, Helen E.Coldwell, daughter of the late James Ross, M.D., in her 3ith year.STATE\u2014In this city, on Wednesday, Feb, 92, of congestion of the brain, Arthur Richard Joseph, aged 6 months and 18 days, youngest son of red T.State.Funeral from his father's residence, 143 Park avenue, on Thursday, 23rd inst., at 2.30 p.m.OCKLEY\u2014On Sunday, January 2, at Caledonia NY.of heart failure and Bright's disease, Herbert James, agod 26 years, son of the late George Ockley, of Sydenham, Ont., and brother of Revds.J.F.and R.L.Ockley.In- terrod at Mount Pleasant, Ont.PORTER\u2014At St.John, N.B., on February 18, 1893, Johanna, wife of John Porter, aged 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S.CARSLEY'S COLUMN.TH£ EXHIBITION THE EXHIBITION Of first delivery of Spring Jackets, Pelerines and Capes now going on.Everything New Everything Handsome Everything Stylish Everything Good Value New g-length Jackets with Capes In all leading shades.New Long Coats with Capes In all leading shades.New Pelerines with Cascade Facings In all leading shades.Latest Novelties in Ladies\u2019 Capes.S.CARSLEY.Notre Dame Street, NEW SILKS Just Received, several cases of New Silks of all kinds.PRINTED SHOT SILKS In all Leading Shades.Striped Surah Silks for Blouses and Dresses, only 45¢ yard.Figured Shot Silks, with Black ground.NEW CORDED BENGALINES In all Leading Shades.New Scotch Plaid Silks.New Fancy Plaid Silks.New Shot Ottoman Silks.Shot Glace Silks for Skirts.New Black Surah Silks.S.CARSLEY, Notre Dame Street.New Dress Tweeds, Just received for consignments of choice Novelties in Dress Tweeds for Spring wear.New Scotch Tweeds, New Irish Tweeds, New English Tweeds.Silk Mixture Tweed Effects, in leading shades and patterns.New Diagonal Dress Tweeds.Striped Tweeds, Plaid Tweeds, Figured Tweeds.Tweeds in all Fashionable Shades.Tweeds in all Qualities.S.CARSLEY.Notre Dame Street.New Dress Goods, SPRINKLINGS of Spring Dress Fabrics just put to stock, comprising Indigo Diagonal Serges, Indigo Cheviot Serges, Indigo Estamene Serges.Plain Costume Cloths in all shades.New Rep Dress Fabrics.Silk Warp Heuriettas in all shades.Few Black Whipcords.Black Diagonal Serges.Black Cheviot Serges.Black Estamene Serges.Black Silk Warp Henriettas.S.CARSLEY.Notre Dame Street.FLANNELETTES, A large delivery of genuine English Flannelettes just to hand in very handsome colorings and patterns.Coma Plaid Flannelettes.Ceylon Striped Flannelettes.Most suitable for Ladies\u2019 and Children\u2019s Underwear, Gentlemen\u2019s Pyjama Suits, etc.w Flannelettes at all prices.FLANNELS, New Printed Cashmere Flannels, in Stripes, Spots and Figured designs.All-Wool Shirting Flannels In Spring Weights.S.CARSLEY, 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OTTAWA, ONT.A.F.MCINTYRE, Q.C., R.G.CopE, J.F.ORDE.(GEOFFRION, DORION & ALLAN, ADVOCATES, 107 St.James Street, \u2014\u2014IMPERIAL BUILDING\u2014 Place d\u2019Armes.REENSHIELDS AND GREEN- SHIELDS, BARRISTERS, SoLicrrors, Etc.\u2014DBRITISH EMPIRE BUILDING\u2014 1724 Notre Dame Street.J.N.GREENSHIELDS, Q.C.R.A.E.GREENSHIEDS, ADVOCATES, ATTORNEYS, PURROUGHS & BURROUGHS, BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS, No.613 and 614 NEW YORK LIFE, Place d\u2019Armes Square, MONTREAL.Cus.5.BURROUGHS, W.HERBERT BURROUGHS.Telephone - - - - - - - - 1521 A F.McINTYRE, ADVOCATE, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ErC., QUEBEC AND ONTARIO.Chambers: 806 & 807 New York Life Building.MONTREAL.À ACLENNAN, LIDDELL & CLINE, (Late Maclennan & Macdonald) BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, NOTARIES, Erc., CORNWALL, ONT.J.W.LIDDELL.D.B.MACLENNAN, QC C.H.CLINE.HOTELS.HOTEL BRUNSWICK.MADISON SQUARE, NEW YORK.American and European Plans, Table d\u2019Hote and Restaurant.Very centrally located and convenient to all places of amusement.MITCHELL, KINZLER AND SOUTHGATE.ST.LAWRENCE HALL 185 to 139 St, James Street, MONTREAL Henry Hogan, Proprietor.The best known Hotel in the Dominion, ST.LOUIS HOTEL.THE LEADING HOTEL IN QUEBEC, W.G.O'NEILL, Manager, Late of St.Lawrence Hall, Montreal.RIENDEAU\u2019S HOTEL.(Late St.Nicholas Hotel), 58 and 60 Jacques Cartier Square.The New Riendeau Hotel is In close prox imity to the R.and O.Navigation Co.\u2019s steam ers, City Hall and Court House.he rooms are large, airy and elegantly fur nished.OS.RIENDEAU.ANCOUVER HOTEL, MONTREAL.Directly opposite the C.P.R.Station.117 & 119 WINDSOR STREET.JOSEPH DORYV AL, Proprietor Late of the Albion Hotel.) THE ST.ELMO, Cor.McGill and Recollets St The Cosiest Dining Room.The best Bill of Fare and the quickest ser ice in the city.Dinner from 12 to 2.30; only 25 cents.RICHELIEU \u2014THE\u2014 Prince of Table Waters For sale at the Clubs, Hotels and loading grocers.Those who wish for a pure an pleasant table water would do well to give it a trial, Endorsed by the leading physicians of Montreal.Telephone orders promptly filled, If your grocer does not keep it, send to J.A.HARTE, 1780 Notre Dame street SHANLY & McCARTHY, Civil ~ and - Hydraulic - Engineers Standard Building.M.J Shanly, M.Am.Soc.C.E.; M.Can.Soc.C.E.$ M.McCarthy, B.A.Se HYDRAULIC - PRESS, Capacity plate 25 x 839 inches in good order and will be sold CHEAP to make way forother machinery.THE MONTREAL HERALD CO.6 Beaver Hall Hill, MONTREAL.HONEST HELP FOR MEN SERA @ PAY NO MORE MONEY To QUACKS, I A sufferer fi rom Errors of Youth, Nervuas Debili and Lost Vigor, was restored to health in chy remarkable manner, after all else had failed, that he will send the means of cure FREE al fo ferers.Address, with stamp, to all elow suf MB, EDWARD MARTIN, (TEACHER) BOX 143, DETROIT, MICK.BROKERS, Etc.McDOUGALL BROS, STOCK BROKERS, 69 St.Francois Xavier Street.Member Montreal Stock Exchange Amir Chliere a of bite ents for Alex.es Grain and Provisions bought and sold for Cash or on Margin.BARLOW & Co., STOCK BROKERS= 78\u2014ST.FRANCOIS XAVIER STREET\u201473 Bar ber Montreal Stock Exchange, tools bought and sold for cash or oa m JOHN T.SNODGRASS & CO.BROKERS, 233 LA SALLE STREET - CHICAGO.Members of the Produce Exchange.Produce bought, sold and carried on margins.Flax a specialty.NOTICH.To avold any misunderstanding, the undersigned begs to inform his clients and others t the offices of H.M, Perrault, Perrault & fase and Perrault & Lesage, although bearing No.17, Place d\u2019Armes Hill, each, are distinct and se te from one another, from a professional point of view.H, M.PERRAULT, Arehitect and Land Surveyor Montreal, May 17, 1892 THOMAS HOCKING Successor to Charles Childs, MACHINIST, MODEL AND TOOL MAKER 47 Willlam Street, Manufacturer of Cutting Dies of every de scription, Steel Shanks, Gaiter Springs, love Spring Fasteners, etc., ete.Boot and S oo Machinery a Specialty.Machine Knives Ground by Automatic H.A.MILLER, House, Sign and Window Shade Painter Paper Hanger and Decorator, Gilding, Graining, Glazing, Whitewashing, ete, eto 1996 ST.CATHERINE STREET.A.LEOFRED (Graduate of Laval and McGill) MINING ENGINEER, Main Office, Quebec.Branch, Montreal, 17 Place d\u2019Armes Hill, JAS.WILLIAMSON, Warehouseman & Commission Merchant 4 PRINCE ST., MONTREAL.STORAGE FREE OR IN BOND FOR VERY DESCRIPTION OF GOODS AT VERY MODERATE RATES, ELIOCK SCHOOL.1143 DORCHESTER S8t., Montreal, Directors\u2014Sir J.Hickson, President; R.B, Angus, Beg.Vice-President; R.Mackay, Esq., WwW.: Ql vie, Esq., G.W.Stephens, Ksq., Rev.J.Williamson, Rector.PRIMARY SCHOOL\u2014For Boys from 8 toll, SECONDARY SCHOOL For 60 boys, ed into 6 classes, number in any class ing limited to 12.Advanced courses in English, Mathematics, Classics, Modern Languages, etc.; Special preparation for admission to the Arts and Science Faculties of the Universities, the Royal Military College, Kingston, and the Mass.Institute of 'fechnology, ton, as well as for commercial life.PHYSICAL TRAINING.Hall for Physical Training, Gymnastics, Drill, Ete.BOARDING, Superior accommodation for 14 resident pu- pile, each having separate room, affording to city boys the advantages of a boarding school with the opportunity of spending two days o every week at home.Session opened Wed nesday, Sept.7.J.WILLIAMSON, Rector.rs BREWERS, ETC, WILLIAM DOW & CO.Brewers and Malsters, CHABOILLEZ SQUARE, India Pale.Pale, XXX and XX ALK, Extra Doubl d Single STO Crown, Wood and Bottles © STOUT an e.FAMILIES SUPPLIED.Bell Telephone 359, Federal 1573, The public are cautioned against dealers whe re-use our labels on bottles filled with other ales, The following City 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Sec.-Treasurer, FRIDAY MORNING, FEB.24.A Ridiculous Attitude, Since the dissolution of the last Parliament the Canadian Government has become so hopelessly involved in the difficulties attending its parti-colored statements of its negotiations with the American Government in the matter of commercial reciprocity, that it must long ago have struck its saner members that the simple truth was the easiest way out- If the shorthand notes of the proceedings, which for tactical reasons have been entombed in some inaccessible pigoon-hole in Downing street, were produced, it is reasonably certain that, like the baseless fabric of a vision, the cloud-capped towers of fiction, uniformity of tariffs, and the other fiscal enormities which give a vivid color to the Canadian Government\u2019s report of those proceedings, would dissolve and leave not a rack behind.But even in face of the imminent probability of the establishment of the truth, the gorgeous palaces of Government misrepresentation grow apace.It is something to have thrust into an attitude of defence this vainglorious Government, for which the Tupper's set the pace of windy boasting.It is something to have stirred its members and its supporters, as Mr.Charlton stirred them in the House on Wednesday, into hysterics of denial, hootings, howlings, desk scratching and those other comely practices with which the Conservatives, front and back benchers alike, are wont to meet the statement of unpleasant truths.The very vehemence of their demand for proofs of a statement which was most clearly within the record would have provided a corroboration of that statement if corroboration had been necessary.The Government's denial that at the time of, and as a pretext for, the dissolution of Parliament in the spring of 1891, it told the public of Canada that it had instituted reciprocity proceedings with the government of the United States and was confident of obtaining a treaty, is as new as it is ridiculous.It is ridiculous because it is a simple matter of record that the institution of reciprocity proceedings was the backbone of the statement with which the Government itself furnished the Ottawa correspondents at the time of the dissolution.The announcement of dissolution was supplemented by a reference to the correspondence with the Colonial Office in the matter.It was sought by means of a despatch which left the capital on the tail of the announcement, to heal this breach of diplomatic etiquette.That despatch, which found its way to the desk of the editor of every considerable journal in the Dominion, pleaded for the suppression of the reference to the reciprocity proceedings.But the reference was published.As Mr.Charlton showed, even in The Toronto Empire no reference to reciprocity is to be found in the manifesto which Sir John Macdonald, a few days later, addressed to the people of the Dominion, and upon this tactical stroke of the chieftain who was a more cunning politician than those who have come after him, the present Government probably bases its denial.But in spite of Sir John\u2019s manifesto, and in spite of the efforts of the Government to cover up its diplomatic discourtesy, its organs and orators in every part of the Dominion where the demand for reciprocity has been made, set reciprocity before the people, black lettered in the menu of good things which the Government promised.It was one of the choicest items in Sir Charles Tupper's program of Conservative MONTREAL DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY.FEBRUARY 24, 1893.his platforms, were out of power and were not likely to be able to negotiate such a profitable treaty as was the Government.This argument for the undoing of the Grits was a sweet morsel under the tongue of every Conservative stumper.It blazed in the cartoons issued at Toronto by the Manufacturers\u2019 Association.Indiscreet Government orguns have not even yet quit chuckling over the manner in which Sir John Macdonald stole the Liberal thunder in the spring of 1891.These are matters of history and the Government's clumsy attempt to deny them is evidence only of the inability of the third Sir John to juggle shades of meaning as skilfully as the first Sir John was used to do.The denial is heard now for the first time.If the Government did not go to the people with a promise of reciprocity, for what earthly purpose was the House dissolved ! But one denial more or less counts for little in that bulky statement of defence which the Government has been forced to fyle in the matter of the reciprocity negotiations.It has not yet seen fit to back its statement with evidence, and in the absence of proof the people of Canada must rate the entire substance of the defence at as high a degree of truth as has been set for this newest and most ridiculous clause of it.The Tariff Changes.Mr.Foster's budget speech has been a great disappointment to the farmers of Eastern Canada.So much had been said in the Government press that these people had come to expect some real relief, and, especially after Mr.Pope had moved for free corn, that at any rate had been thought sure.Mr.Pope\u2019s relation to the new president of the council was looked upon as proof that he would not have made such a motion without some understanding that the Government was going to propose the change.Free corn is the direct relief most anxiously desired.Radical change in the tariff on all the necessities of life is hoped for and prayed for by the farmers, but corn, which he has to import, is just as much the raw material for his cattle feeding, as wool is the raw material for the woollen factory.To have the price of this reduced would have been a great relief and would have contributed much to comparative contentment under even all the other burdens.Nowadays it is well established that successful farming in Quebec and the Maritime Provinces must depend on feeding stock, whether for dairy or becf purposes, and lately a strong impetus has been given to pork produe- tion.For all these purposes corn is one of the most profitable feeds, and as in these eastern sections it is quite impossible to raise it profitably for grain it has to be imported.The duty adds just so much to the price and by so much handicaps the farmer in his production.To-day the prices of all farm products are low and the only means of reaping a profit on selling them is to secure as cheap production as possible.The Eastern Canada farmer finds it better to put what corn he can raise into a silo to supply the bulky food required by his stock, and he must buy some grain to put with it, especially for finishing off his animals.With our cattle scheduled in England and quarantined in the States we must give up the stocker trade and finish our cattle fit for slaughter, and to do this corn is one of the prime requisites.Neither this evident need of vhe farmer nor Mr.Pope\u2019s eloquence and argument have been sufficient to move the Government to grant this boon.Messrs.Ives, Angers, Caron, Costigan, Tupper and the other representatives of the Eastern provinces in the cabinet have evidently not looked after the interests of the agricultural constituencies as have Messrs.Daly, Patterson and Wallace.These latter have secured the reduction, by half, of the duty on binder twine, which, while only half a loaf is still better than no bread.To the grain growers of Manitoba and the North West of Ontario this is a concession small and inadequate, but still something.To the farmers of Quebec and the Maritime Provinces it is no use.There is not one per cent.of these who use binder twine.The few who have self-binders are probably fancy farmers to whom a few dollars a year, more or less, in the price of twine, is of no account.In the River parishes of Quebec there are a few self-binders in use, but very few compared to the amount of stock kept, and this concession is as nothing when compared to what free corn would have been to even these farmers.There is no need to reiterate the arguments long since advanced in favor of this removal of a serious and entirely unjustifiable burden.The refusal to give this relief is simply unpardonable and shows the utter disregard which the present government display towards the interests of the agricultural classes.The retention of the duty will nullify much of the work that is being done to encourage stock keeping and dairying in eastern Canada.It is absurd to spend thousands of dollars a year to urge on our farmers by bulletins, lectures and conventions the keeping of stock and then go and increase the price of one of the prime necessities for the successful carrying on of the business.This is what the Government does.The \u201c Agricultural Clubs\u201d Mr.Beaubien is the author of a measure now before the Legislature which, though no doubt well meant, will be inimical to the agricultural interests of the country if it becomes law.It aims at the encouragement of agricultural clubs.It provides that these may be formed in every parish, and when the membership reaches twenty-five, application may be made to the Provincial Government for a pro rata share of the annual money grant to each county for Measure.promises.The Liberals, he said on all doubt believes that these clubs will prove valuable media for transinitting a knowledge of the newer and better agricultural methods to the rank and file of the farmers, but what they will do will be to seriously hamper the work which is now being done by the agricultural societies of the various counties, The starting of agricultural clubs will mean a division of work of responsibility and of revenues.In place of having one strong agricultural society in each district thare will be one weak agricultural society and several clubs with small memberships and slim revenues.There will of necessity be jealousies between the organizations.Indeed, it is easy to see the objections to the bill, while the arguments in its favor are not apparent.The agricultural societies can do everything which the clubs can do, and they should not be injured by any such foolish legislation as that proposed by Mr.Beaubien.The practical farmers of the Province are altogether hostile to the proposed innovation; and in the Board of Agriculture, which, being an appointed body, is apt to reflect merely the views of the Minister of Agriculture of the time, it is opposed by nearly half the members.The scheme seems to bea \u201cfad\u201d of Mr.Beaubien\u2019s, without anything to be said in its favor and should not be approved by the legislature.Dogs Nor THE sHADE of Egerton Ryer- son weep briny tears for the freshness and vulgarity of the fashionable physician who, under that great name, is trying to persuade the people of Toronto that the Government of Sir Oliver Mowat, the mightiest exponent of those principles for which Ryerson lived, is unworthy of the confidence of that city in which the Family Compact flourished and was killed ?CORRESPONDENCE, The Muilin Fire, To the Editor of The Herald : Sir,\u2014The Herald, in reporting the recent fire, said that Prevost had attempted to descend by a ladder and fell while doing so.The Star's account of this matter is much the same.The Witness gives a different version of Prevost\u2019s fall, and a number of bystanders declare that no ladder reached to within twenty feet of Prevost, that he could not have attempted so to descend one.I notice that Prevost himself is reported as saying that he attempted so to descend, but lost his grip of the ladder, but my bystanders say in reply that Prevost doesn\u2019t known what he is talking about; that he touched no ladder except in his fall.I am surprised at this, because I feel sure Prevost wus present at the time, was nearer the falling off place than anyone else, and was much interested in the proceeding, but my bystanders threaten something about champagne if I persist in believing Prevost, The Herald and The Star, and it is a terrible thing when one is cited before the Court of Champagne.Can you throw any more light on the subject, because, strange to say, the Champagne argument never convinces me ?BELMONT.[The Herald has already told the story of Prevost\u2019s escape from the burning building.No more \u201clight can be thrown on the subject\u201d than that already given by The Herald's trusted reporters.| The Injunction Argument.Argument in the injunction case was resumed yesterday in the Court of Review, by the Hon.Mr.Laflamme, for the respondents.He was followed by Mr.Atwater on behalf of the petitioners, after which their Lordships took the case en delibere.The MeGill Conversazione.The Engineering Building will be open for visitors at 8 o'clock to-night for the conversazione.At 9 o'clock, presentations to His Excellency the Governor- General will be made.Ladies and gentlemen who wish to be presented are requested to bring cards with their names legibly written on them.A Resignation Coming.An Englishman occupying a very important position in the Court house, is shortly about to send in his resignation.The reason for his so doing is that he is about to join the order of benedicts, the object of his choice being a young lady residing in Paris, France.The young lady in question comes of a very old family, is an heiress and moves in the best society in the gay city.The gentleman in question is also well off, and bis confreres will greatly regret his departure, as he is a general favorite, The W.C.T.U.\u2019s Annual Meeting.The W.C.T.U.held their annual public meeting in Knox Church yesterday, Mrs, Walter Paul presided, and Rev.J.Fleck, pastor of the church, opened the meeting with devotional exercises.Officers were elected at a subsequent meeting.Mrs.Paul, the retiring president, madenshort address in which she reviewed the work done by the Union siuce it was started.She afterwards introduced the new president, Mrs, Williams.The corresponding secretary\u2019s report was read by Miss Evans.Miss Barbour read the report of the Evangelistic department.This shows what excellent work the W.C.T.U.Sheltering Home is doing.The meeting closed by the benediction from Mr.Fleck.The Provifice and the World's Fair, A meeting of the Provincial Advisory Board of the World's Fair was held at the Government offices yesterday.The object of the meeting was to arrange details in cen- nection with the exhibits to go from the Province to the fair.he exhibit will be a good one, including no less than 134 specimens of grain.Specimens of asbestos in various forms and minerals from the mines of the province will nlso be shown, while the cattle exhibit is to be a very good one, Thirteen horses have already been selected for exhibition and twenty-four more will be sent.Among the other exhibits will beforestry, dairy eighteen specimens of tobacco, fruits and roots.There will also be placed in the Canadian building all the official documents of the year in connection with the Federal and\u2019 Provincial Governments.The new and popular dance music of the season audjthe latest successful songs may be obtained promptly through À.& S.Nord- deimer, St.James street, who have on hand a choice selection of violin and piano music and everything in connection with the music trade.When Baby was sidk, we gave her Castoria.When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.When she became Miss, she clung to Castorig When she bad Children, she gave thom Cartoria agricultural purposes.The Minister no REPRESENTATIVE ENGINEERS.Annual Meeting of Canadian Soclety Yester- dav Morning.The Canadian Society of Civil Engineers held their annual meeting yesterday.The report of the council was presented and shows the membership to be : Honorary, 6; members, 280 ; associate members, 124°; associates, 69; students, 168 ; total, 647.This showed a decrease of twelve during the year.The Toronto branch ceased to exist during the year.The income for the year amounted to $4,135.07, and the expenditure §2,995.90, leaving a balance of $1,139.17, and a total balance to carry forward to the general fund of 35,084.59.The officers elected are : President\u2014E.P.Hannaford, Montreal.Vice-presidents\u2014Thomas Munro, Coteau Landing ; P.A.Peterson, Montreal ; W.J.Jennings, Toronto.Treasurer\u2014Herbert Wallis, Montreal.Secretary\u2014C.H.McLeod, Montreal, Librarian\u2014Wm, McNab, Montreal.Members of Council\u2014H.T.Bovey, Montreal ; St.George Boswell, Quebec; H.D.Lumsden, Toronto; P.W.St.George, Montreal.J.D.Barnett, Stratford ; Allan McDougall, Toronto; G.C.Cunningham, Montreal ; G.A.Mountain, Ottawa ; C.K.Domville, Hamilton ; C.H.Keefer, Toronto; H.S.Poole, Stellarton ; Thos.Ridout, Ottawa; F.R.F.Brown,\u2018 Moncton ; E.Mohun, Victoria, B.C.; F.R.Bedpath, Montreal.ERASTUS WIMAN RETIRES.He Is No Longer Connected With R.G.Dun & Co.Dun, Wiman & Co.have dissolved, Mr.Erastus Wiman retiring.The business will be continued under the name of R.G.Dun & Co.throughout Canada, and the States.Mr.Wiman has been connected with this firm for many years and is well known in Montreal business circles for his executive ability and good business judgment.The following interview appears in The New York Telegram : The mercantile agency of R.G.Dun and Co., at No.314 Broadway, has caused a notice to be published to the effect that by mutual consent the connection of Erastus Wiman with the business of R.G.Dun and Co.\u2018has been terminated.1 called at the office of the company today and asked the manager, Mr.Douglass, if he cared to make any explanation of the matter.He said :\u2014 *\u2018No, I do not.\u201d \u201cWill you state the cause of Mr.Wiman's action ?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t want to say anything about this matter,\u201d said Mr.Douglass.His manner did not preclude the possibility of drawing an inference that strained relations existed between the company and Mr.Wiman and that was really the cause of the rupture.*\u2018A Few from the Many.\u201d Manual Garcias, Partagas, Henry Clays, Larranagas aud such well known marks of Havana cigars a specialty at Hirsch's Havana Cigar Depot, opposite the Post- office.Looking for Damages.Messrs.Blacklock & Co., boot and shoe merchants, have taken out an action for $3,000 damages against Messrs.J.C.Hem- ond & Co., for an alleged attempt to injure their credit.The same firm have also taken out an action for a similar amount against Mr.Felix Sauvageau for making a demand of abandonment against them on Tuesday last.Mr.W.A.Weir.for Messrs.Black- lock & Ceo., filed a petition yesterday morning asking that the demand be annulled.A Concert at Lachine.Court Lachine, No.544, held à very successful concert in the St.Stephen\u2019s Church hall, Lachine, on Wednesday evening last, the hall being tastefully decorated with national flags, ete.A very enjoyable evening was spent by an audience of some five hundred people, who dispersed about 10.45 o'clock, well pleased with the program which was furnished, which was rendered in fine style.The thanks of the above court are due to the English and French talent from Montreal and Lachine who so kindly took part in the entertainment.An Evening With Mrs.Jarley.Mrs.Jarley\u2019s exhibition of wax works at the Windsor Hall on Thursday evening, March 2nd, will be an unequivocal success, She is perfectly natural has nothing stage about her, and her wax figures and well trained lackeys cannot fail to be received with great approval.Being a revelation of grace and beauty assuredly there will be contentment on both sides of the curtain.When at the conclusion actors and audience are alike exhausted with laughter.The Grand Fancy Fair, with its musical teas aud numberless attractions will open at the Windsor Hall Friday, March 3rd, at one o'clock, will close at ten p-m.and be continued Saturday, the 4th March, during corresponding hours.The Corn Exchange Meets, At a meeting of the committee of management of the Corn Exchange Association held yesterday, Mr.D.A.McPherson presided.He appointed Mr.A.G.Thomson acting president, and that gentleman accepted the office.The following nominations were made for the Board of Examiners for wheat and other grain, aud for flour and meal : Messrs.A.Girard, A.G.McBean, Hugh McLennan, R.Peddie and A.G.Thomson ; flour and meal, A.E.Gagnon, O, M.Gould, W.A.Hastings, James S.Norris and David W.Dale, Harris, Hector Mackenzie, A.T.Patterson, Jacques Grenier, W.R.Miller, W.Wallach, G.Caverhill, R.P.MeLea, G.C.Dunlop, H.McLennan, A.G.Ames, A.H.Lunn, G.T.Alexander, P.Maceulloch, D.L.Lockerby and R.MacD, Paterson.Quebec\u2019s Mineral Exhibit at Chicago, The exhibit of Minerals from the Province of Quebec for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, promises to be a very fine one; it is the intention of the Hon.Commissioner to make this exhibit more of a commercial and practical nature than purely scientific.The scientific exhibit of the Dominion will be under the able management of Dr.Selwyn, (director of the Geological Survey).It is considered that by this means a more attractive exhibit will be secured than could otherwise be obtained; attention of foreigners to the wealth and extent of the mineral \u2018resources of the province, which await the miner and the capitalist.The principal minerals of commercial value which will be shown include the following , copper, iron pyrites, slate, asbestos, phosphate, mica, iron ores, graphite and gold, as well as light and dark granite and different varie(ies of marble.In the collection of this exhibit the utmost willingness has been shown by mine owners and others interested in mining, to contribute and assist in making the mineral department from the province of Quebec as complete and attractive as possible.It has been arranged that the minerals will be collected and shipped from two central points, those from the south shore from Sherbrooke, and those from the north of the St.Lawrence and the Ottawa district from Hull.Already a considerable number of specimens have been forwarded to these points, and the shipment to Chicago will probably be made in the first half of Marchand in this way it is hoped to secure the | DRESS CO0DS TO THE TRADE.This is one of our leading departments.Our stock at present includes the following lines: Henriottas, Serges, Beiges, Diagonals, Nuns Cloth, Repp Cords, Soliels, Shot Twills, Mohair Shots, Twists, Tweeds, Fancy Checks, Twill Crossovers, Colored Plaids, Shot Figures, Summer Moreens, Wool Crapes, Printed Wool Delalines, Satin Striped Delaines, ORDERS SOLICITED.FILLING LETTER ORDERS A SPECIALTY.John Macdonald & Co.Wellington and Front Streets E, REAL ESTATE & AUCTION SALES By H.M.Simpson.FOR SALE.Valuable Corner Lot on DUROCCHER STREET and PINE AVENUE.38, 38, 40 VICTORIA STREET.Price, $4.750 each.28 VICTORIA STREET, - - = $6500 538 TUPPER STREET, - - =~ - 85,000 Terms, $1,000 cash, balance at 5 p.c.HOUSES ON BISHOP, CRESCENT, STANLEY, MOUNTAIN, DRUMMOND, MANSFIELD and SHERBROOKE STREETS.SPECIALLY FINE COTTAGE on Park Ave.\u2018Will be sold at a bargain.FOR SALE.NEW COTTAGE ON DUROCHER STREET.Well built.Extension Kitchen.Price, $7,700, Apply to H.M.SIMPSON, 24 Waddell Building, £150 PORT Our prices for these Royal Wines are $2.30 per botlieor ÿ25 por dozen.Mackenzie Driscoll\u2019s £150 Particular Oldest Port Wine, $2.50 per bottle, $25 per dozen.Sandeman.Buck &: Co.(Pemartin's), 1815, £130 sherry, $2.50 der bottle, $25 per dozen.Crown Madeira Cossart & Gordon's Oldest and Cholcest ino, $2 per bottle, $9.50 por gallon or $20 per ozen.FRASER, VIGER & CO \u2018 CLARET WINES JOURNU'S FINE CLARETS.Shipped by Messrs.Journu Freres, Kappelhoff & Co., Bordeaux.& OUR PRESENT STOCK = Per case.ldoz.2doz.qts.Journu's Medoc, in quarts only.$85 50 §.Journu's Floirac, in quarts o: y.575 Journu's St.Estephe.65 Journu\u2019s St.Julien .oe Journu's Chateau Belair.10 00 1 Journu's Pontet Canet, in quarts only Journu's Chateau Leoville, in quarts only 15 FRASER, VIGER & CO.MOSELLE WINES, STILL MOSELLES.FIN QUARTS AND PINTS™ Zeltinger, in cases of one dozen quarts, $9 per cnse.Zeltinger, in cases of two dozen pints, $10 per case.Brauneberger, in cases of one dozen quarts, $14 per case.Brauncberger, in cases of two dozen pints $15 per case.Royal Scharzberger, in cases of one dozen quarts, $24 per case.Royal Scharzberger, in cases of two dozen pints, RHINE WINES, STILL HOCKS.Steinberger (Duke of Nassau's Cabinet), in quarts anly, $31 per case.Schloss Johannisberg (Prince Motternich's Estate), in quarts only, $33 per case.HOCK WINES.Henkell & Co.Laubenhefmer.700 8 50 Rhenish.1878 750 8 50 Hattenheimer \u2026.900 10 00 Niersteiner.10 50 11 60 Erbacher.\u2026\u2026.11 30 12 50 Stein wein (Bocksbeuitel).14 00 15 00 Liebfraumilch.- 1500 16 00 Hockheimer.16 00 17 00 Rudcsheimer.16 00 17 00 Marcobrunner.00 21 00 FRASER, VIGER & CO, California Zinfandel The Sunset Wines.California Zinfandel, in cases of 1 dozen quarts, $6 per case.California Zinfandel.in cases of 2 dosen pints $7 por case.FRASER, VIGER & CO.CLUB CLARET.CLUB CLARET.500 dozen quarts, per dozen.500 dozen pints, 83.50 per dozen.FRASER, VIGER & CO.Canned Vegetables.$1 Per Dozen Assorted.TOMATOES, CORN, PEAS and BEANS.The sale continues.Having replenished our stocks, by the purchase of another carload, our customers and the public in general are welcome to take advantage of the op ortunity to purchase the best goods packed in Canada until he last dozen is disposed of.Remember the assortment, Tomatoes, Corn, Peas and Beans, $1 ger dozen assorted.RASER, VIGER & CO.CHOICE DAIRY BUTTER In Prints, Tins and Tubs from the leading dairies in the Townships, FRASER, VIGER & CO.1,000 Lbs.of Our Famous 30c ENGLISH BREAKFAST TEA Ready for All Comers.In 11b packages, in caddies of all sizes and in half-chests.FRASER, VIGER & CO, PURE APPLE CIDER.From Norwich, Ont., THE FINEST OF TBE FINE, Norwich Pure Apple Cider, as clear and bright as fine sherry, just reccived.FRASER, VIGER & C0.ITALIAN WAREHOUSE, 199 ST.JAMES STREET.BATES Automatic Numbering Machine (DIAL SETTING MOVEMENT.) À New and Improved Machine FOR PRINTING NUMBERS.Operates Consecutively, Duplicates and Repeats.Steel Figures, Perfect Printing.Absolute] Accurate ork.Each machine guaranteed in overy particular, Useful in every office, Call and see them or send for a circular and price st.MORTON, PHILLIPS & CO.STATIONERS, Blank Book Makers and Printers, 1755 and 1757 NOTRE DAME STREET, MONTREAL TO REAL ESTATE AGENTS: Anyone having a large, detached or semidetached house to let with immediate 08- session, will please communicate with \u201cBuys.£150 SHERRY [35 TUPPER STREET.TO LET.RENT, $450 and Taxes.May be seen daily from 3 to 5, except on Monday.This house is exceptionally sunny and bright.In perfect order.Apply to H.M.SIMPSON, 24 Waddell Building, 8 ST.JOHN STREETO By H.J.Ashman.Spring Auction Sales of Household Furniture, Etc, Before making your final selection of an Auctioncer to conduct your sale, you will, perhaps, consult your best interests by interviewing the subscriber, who has conducted some of the most important sales in and around Mont- treal during the past three ycars.Special Terms, Good Advertising.Efficient Assistance, Gentlemanly Conduct, Prompt Settlements, aiways a Good Audisnee and General Satisfaction Guaranteed, H.J.ASHMAN, Goneral Auctioneer, 73 Imperial Building, St.James St, £F'For the convenience of up-town residents H.J.A, can be interviewed at his residence, 113 Shuter street, from § to 9a, m., 12 to 2 and after 6 o'clock p.m, Telephone 3372, By Chas, Holland.FOR SALE: Valuable Property STONE BLOCK N.E.CORNER OF ot Catherine & Bleury Sts Consisting of five houses on Bleury street, two on St.Catherine and three shops, and one house on Balmoral, All leased to 1st May, Frontage on St.Catherine Street 160 Feet.On Bleury and Balmoral Streets, 124 Feet.\u2014ALSO\u2014 13 & 15 BALMORAL STREET, \u2014AND-\u2014 48 VICTORIA STREET: For further particulars apply to CHARLES HOLLAND, 249 St, James Street, MACHINERY, Etc.CHAS.CAMMELL & Co, (LIMITED) SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND.STEEL RAILS All Sections and Weights.FISH PLATES, BOLTS AND SPIKES Lowest Prices on Application to JAS.COOPER, Agent, 203 St.James Street, Montreal.THE DOMINION WIRE ROPE COMPANY MONTREAT, MANUFACTURERS oF For Hoisting, Mining - Inclines Transmission of Power, Towing, Ship\u2019s Rigging, Guys, &o.\u2014ALSO\u2014 LANGS PATENT WIRE ROPE Transmission and Collie Pu Signal Sirand, Clothes Lins and Seizing ire.JAS.COOPER, - Agent, 320 St.James Street Steam Engines and Boilers.AUTOMATIC CUT-OFF AND PLAIN Engines, Boilers, ALL SIZES AND STYLES, STEAM PUMPS, gc.E.LEONARD & SONS, Corner Common and Nazareth Streets, MONTREAL, GARTH&CO.MANUFACTURERS, 036 to 542 CRAIG STREET M ONTREAI Call and Examin @ our Ne Complete Wana Stock of Gas and Electric CHANDELIERS, BRACKETS, PORTABLES, GLOBES Etc., Eto, WANTED TO RENT.Wanted, with immediate Possession, à , large detached or semi- i in a desirable locality, Arinched us nc iness,\u201d P.O.Box 1609, Montreal.J.CRADOCK SIMPSON & go.181 St.James Street.AMUSEMENTS, \u2014 EMY OF MUSIC.ACADEMY THoMas, Lessee and Manage, Gilbert & Sullivan's ORE, orn SONDOLIERS inder the Distinguished Patronage of si Und Donald and Lady Smith Sir special permission of R.yly Carte, Es Seay 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th ang M with Saturday Matinee, by, The Montrea| Amateur Operatic Club.\u201d 2nd season, CAST including Miss Ella Walker, Miss A Moylan, Miss M.Hollinshead, Miss E.V, Grier Miss L.Yiftue, Miss Silverman, Miss Herbert: Messrs.F.W.Cane, P.M, Belihouse, J, C, gy! low, T.O.Sturgis Jones, F.N, Southam, AG Cunningham.Large Chorus.Full Orchestra.Mr.H.x.Fronings, Sec.Mr.G.Couture, Con, Prices, $1.00, 75c, 50c and 25c.Seats now on sale at Nordheimer's.; Coming attraction\u2014MADELINE MERLI, SRE UEEN\u2019S THEATRE.GOOD RESERVED SEATS, 50 CTS, It AUL THIS WEEK |A TE See Wednesday GRAND DOUBLE BILL 2 GREAT PLAYs, B.J.HENLEY, d admirable players.in \u201cOUR CLUB™ and YESTERDAY » Theatre Box office open all day.Telephon *4032, Branch oftoes, N.Y.Pigno Co, Shep.o pard's, and Windsor Hotel.Coming\u2014Mr.and Mrs.Drew, \u2014_\u2014 THEATRE ROYAL.- - - Every Afternoon and Evening Week Commencing Monday, Feb.20.G.N.BERTRAM'S \u2014\u2014INTERPRETED BY \u2014\u2014 S b Company, Elaborate Scenic > A ollishments, onderful Mechanioal + Effects.A CYCLORAMIC PICTURE OF CiTy Lire, Prices of admission, 10c, 306 and 30c, Ro red soats, extra.Week following \u2014 ROSE HILL'S BURLESQUE COMPANY.THE EMPIRE : .Formerly Lyceum.MONDAY, FEB.20, And Every Evening.Ladies\u2019 and Children's Matinces Wednesday and Saturday, Mr.Inigo Tyrrell's Greatest Work, HIS NATURAL LIFE Interpreted by a company of intelligent ladies and gentlemen.Entrance on St.Catherine.Next Week\u2014** The Life We Live,\u201d the great temperance success at the Princess London Theatre, - TALMAGE - WINDSOR HALL, Tuesday, March 7th.Box plan now open at George J.Sheppard's Music Store, ood St.Catherine street, Telephone No.4414, Rescrved Seats, $1.00; Admission, 5ûc.Only a limited number of admission seats wlll be sold, and can be procured in advance at the Box office.JUrders from the country or adjacent towns for reserved seats booked, and choice location allotted.Remittance must accompany order.FANCY FAIR IN AID OF THE HOME FOR INCURABLES, - WINDSOR HALL, - Friday and Saturday, March 3rd & 4th, 1893.Open from One to Ten p.m.each day.ADMISSION, - = 10 CTS.MRS, JARLEYS WAX WORKS ONE NIGHT ONLY! IN AID OF THE HOME FOR INCURABLES - WINDSOR HALL, - Thursday, March 2nd, 1 £98 AT 8 P.M.TICKETS, - - 755 and 50c, To be had at Sheppard's Music Store, 2274 5t Catherine Street, where seats may be reserved A RT ASSOCIATION of MONTREAL PHILLIPS SQUARE.The galleries are closed until Wednesday, March 1, to allow of preparations for the Royal Canadian Academy Exhibition.Reading Room Open to Members as Usual, Victoria Skating Club.\u2014A GRAND- WILL BE HELD IN THE RINK ON FRIDAY, the 24th FEBRUARY.Subscribers will be admitted on presentation of their season tickets, Tickets for non-su bscribers, 50c each, procurable at the Secretary-Treasurer's office, and at the rink on the evening of the entertainment.Galleries free, \u2019 Members of International Mining Convention will be present, The Band of the Victoria Rifles will be in attendance.W.ALEX, CALDWELL, Half-senson tickets being enh { 1ckets are now he Sec.-Troas.\u2019s office.ing lasted a HEARLE'S Patchouli Soap PLEASANT TO USE OF DELICATE FRAGRANCE, \u2014AND\u2014 FREE FROM ALKALI AND ALL ADULTERANTS.HEARLE M\u2019FG.CO.MONTREAL, A LARGE SHIPMENT \u2014OF\u2014 SPHING 1693 CARPETS Opened This Day.All who have sccured their New Homes wili do well to see these goods at once, } Carpets will be made up and stored until required, Beautiful effects.THOMAS LIGGET, 1884 Notre Dame Street, GLENORA BUILDING.Telephone 753, DUN, WIMAN & CO.NOTICE is hereb iven that, by mutual consent, the connect or of Mr.ae Wiman th the business of Dun, Wiman & Co.has after terminated, The style of the firm here- ill be R.G, Dun & Co.R.G.DUN & CO.eu The SS STC ON ARS g Ju, Œ SPF OS PTIT ds 1s - or Pee =a SPORTING EVENTS.The Crystals Deteat the Victorias by Four Goals to Three.The Curling Matches for thelBraneh Tankard \u2014An Interesting Matched Race Arranged at Ottawa-\u2014Standard Rules to Govern the Judging of Prize Dogs\u2014Entries for Gut- tenburg and Gloucester, Last night\u2019s hockey match was a close one, more so than many ot the Vics.\u2019 admirers had hoped.Both teams were in good condition, and the ice in the Crystal Rink was perfect.The spectators were many and enthusiastic in cheering for their respective teams, or groaning when a good chance was missed.The play during the first half was very close, the Vics.at times having the best of it.The first game, which was the longest, was characterized by some very pretty team play by the forwards, but the Crystals were not playing us good a game as some they hate Put up this season.At the finish of the first half the score stood Vics.2, Crystals 1, but this was reversed by the Crystals scoring the first two games in the second half, which woke the Victorias up to the fact that if they wanted to win they would have to work harder.They managed to score the sixth game, making the result a draw, when the timekeepers blew their whistles, After some discussion as to whether it was necessary to change ends after full time being called the referee again blew his whistie calling the teams into position.The final game wasffor blood.Whichever side scored first would win the match.The Crystals moved McDonald forward and put Murray point, and started out to win, which they did after about ten minutes play.Davidson and Stephen tried hard to score for the Vics, but the Crystals managed each time to clear and so win the deciding game.The following are the teams and officials : VICTORIA, POSITIONS.CRYSTAL, Jones.Goal.Collins Pullen Point .MoDonald Elliot.Cover point .Boone Duvidson.Browne stephen.MoQuiste BER romani Mo hirer Rankin.(Uri Ritchie Davidson played a splendid game all through the match for The Vice as did Stephen and Wallace, while for the Crystals Ritchie, Boone and MeQuisten, carried oft the best part of the glory.The following is the order of the games and the scorers ; Game, Team.Scorer.Looiiiiiin., Victorias.+.Davidson Doi .Crystals.Brown 3.Victorias.Davidson foo .Crystals.McQuisten Sova.Crystals.-.McQuisten [ .Victorias.Davidson Toei Crystals.McQuisten Referee\u2014J.Finlay.Umpires\u2014B.Tansey, Jr., and F.C.Jamieson.py, Lmickeepers\u2014Watson Jack and F.Willough- THE TURF.To-day\u2019s Entries at Gloucester, {Special to The Herald.Gloucester, N.J.Feb.23.\u2014The following are the entries for to-morrow\u2019s races at Gloucester: First race, 4} furlongs.Selling.Con, Lucey.8 Congress Backmadiler,.108 Golden.McCarty .108 Comrade.Goldstep .103 Apollo.Second race, § mile, Selling.Rabin Hood.Harlequin.95 Capt.McChesney.103 Silver Queen.90 La Juive.filly .08 Bext.20 Sir Lister.=.7.93 7 Third race\u20146} furlongs.Selling.My Craft.106 Eddio Me.casa cases 106 Macgre or, 106 Maj, Thornton.106 King Id e.106 Folie 5 es \u2026 l argbu .106 reen Ba, Edward F.106 Dr.Davie, Gyda.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.101 Lee 5.Fourth race\u2014g mile, Selling.Yevay.106 Knapp.107 Gloverdale.9% Come To Taw.106 Fifth race-\u20144j} furlongs.Selling.Barrientos.108 Trixey Gardner.103 Shamrock .108 Miss Lay Cee, 10, A,B.Fox.,.108 Sister Ione.Fitzroy.108 Silence.Sizth race\u20143 mile, Selling, Gladstone.,.«117 War Lasscott.114 Wahoo.117 Mutiny., 102 Persuader.117 Roman.,.102 Jupiter., 114 Miss Hall, filly.97 Guttenburg Races Postponed.Yesterday's races at Guttenburg were postponed.The entries stand for to-day.An Interesting Matched Race Arranged at Ottawa, [Special to The Herald.] Ottawa, Feb.23\u2014A match race for $200 a side was made here this afternoon between Tred Chevrier's 3 year old Money Maid and Billy Moore\u2019s Jennie H.It will take place at the Union Ics Park on Saturday, and promises to be the most interesting event of the season.Both horses ure evenly matched, but the fact that Jenvie H.is an old timer has made side betting a little in her favor, A big amount of money is going to be put up on the result.Joe Martin will- drive Jennie H.- Jacques Cartier Track.There was a big crowd at the ice track yesterday afternoon and the racing was first class.The gentleman's race was not finished and will be concluded this afternoon, when the admission will be free.The summary follows : Named race.Bartender 1 ElPagdre.2 Committee Boy.undry Boy.Fanny LL.Claymore .cee Time, 2.51, 2,54, 2.54.Gentlemeon\u2019s race.Billy B a 2 mn Or-100 9 O0 + 00-100 Là 60 DH r Country Boy .\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.1 St.Scholastique Boy Lady Queen.000.00000 3 McGinty .Clarence Croek.ccccceeerineninnnn 6 Time, 2.47, 2.45.OH CES CO THEKENNEL Standard Rules to Judge a Prize Dog.The principal qualification requisite for Judging nearly every recognized breed of dogs is the same as is necessary for discerning the good points in a horse.The first thing one looks for is proportion and symmetry.A proportionate animal is one whose height from the foot to the point of the shoulder is equal to the length, measured from the shoulder blade to the quarters.With the exception of a few varieties that have been distorted by the quipsand fancies of man this rule which may be accepted as that of nature governs.Another general rule which may be applied in almost every breed is that of a smooth level outline, devoid of angles; with the stern set level with the top of the back.In addition to this a dog\u2019s fore legs should be of sufficient substance to support the frame, with no preceptible shrinkage below the knee or in the pasterns.8hould a specimen strike the eye as being weak at any part of his legs, then it can be taken for granted that the animal has a\u2019 Positive defect.A further law which applies to the majority of breeds is the placement of the shoulders, which at the withers should be laid well back.When one has realized these essentials the next step is to grasp the different types and head formations of the various varieties.This requires intimate knowledge and association with the breed which one wishes to know thoroughly, and it is in these points more than in any others where the judges\u2019 powers are tried.However, in order to better understand the pro- verties requisite in the most popular va- MONTREAL DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1893.5 rieties, the following may prove of service to lovers of canines : MASTIFFS.Should 88 a short, blunt muzzle, without the suspicion of pointed or narrow nostrils: the skull should be broad, expansive and neither too square, like a parallelogram, nor too round, like nu apple, with the ears met wide and lying close to the head; the neck should give the impression of power and strength without being short like a bull; chest of great breadth, with shoulders set well back und well muscled.The forelegs should be of immense substance, with uniform power right down to the feet, which are round and deep, with the toes firm and close together.Ribs round and well sprung, without any suspicion of flatness, with a loin und hips denoting great power and strength.The stifles should be bent and not straight, as is geuer- ally seen in specimens of the present day, with broad, well muscled quarters and hocks close to the ground.The latter should by no means be turned towards one another, though this is another general failing.The stern should be straight und free from curl, and falling in a line with the hind legs.The approved (colors are brindle, apricot or fawn, the two litter with black muzzle and shadings on the face and ears.In general appearance a mestiff should give the idea of Immense power and masgiveness combined with activity, ST.BERNARDS, Muzzle should be square and blunt, not long or pointed, the latter being decidedly objectionable; skull broad snd massive and slightly round; cars small, placed close to the head, and not too high ou skull; neck powerful and set well into the shoulders, which are oblique and strongly muscled: chest of great girth and forelegs of plenty of substance and extremely powerful at the pasterns: feet round, close and deep; ribs airly round, and loin wide and werful, as are the hips; stifles well bent and hocks near the ground.The stern should drop, with a slight curve at the end.In the rough variety the coat should be flat, not curly, with the forelegs and quarters well feathered.The smooth specimens should possess a short, dense, hard coat, and very crisp.The most desirable color is a deep orange on the body, with white collar, forelegs and white from the hocks down ; should also be a white blaze up the face with black shadings, and a white muzzle with black ticks.The expression should be that of extreme gentlaness mingled with grandeur and dignity.Size is also an important factor, dogs being from thirty-one to thirty four inches at the shoulder, while bitches are from two to four inches less.POINTERS, Muzzle should be fairly long and square and broad at the nostrils, with a decided stop at the base: the skull should be flat, with a prominent occiput, neck clean and devoid of throatiness, well set into clean, obliquely placed shoulders; forelegs strong, with the substance running well down to the feet, which are round, deep and close.Ribs round and well sprung; loin and quarters strong and powerful, with hocks well let down.Stern carried in a line with the hips.Color liver and white, lemon and and white, white, black, black and white.Weight from seventy pounds to fitty pounds.SETTERS.Muzzle long and square, without the semblance of running to a point at the nose, with a decided stop at the base; skull cleanly cut withont any semblance of cheekiness, with | a very prouounced occiput ; neck clean and set well into oblique shoulders ; forelegs strong in substance but flatter than is seen in pointers ; ribs, extremely deep and not 80 round as in pointers ; loin and hindquarters strong, and muscular.Stern carried in a line with the hips.Coat, soft und flat, with the legs and stern well feathered.COLLIES.Muzzle long and fairly tapering; skull flat and of proportionate width with the muzzle ; ears small, and when at attention erect with the tips dropping over; neck clean and set well into oulique shoulders ; forelegs of good substance running down to the feet, which should be round, close and deep ; ribs deep and well sprung; loins and hindquarters firm aud powerful; stifles well bent and hocks close to the ground.The rock variety should possess a very profuse coat, which should be dense, close and weather resisting.The fashionable color is a rich sable, with white collar, forelegs and white from the hocks down.FOX TERRIERS.Muzzle long and very powerful; head narrow, cleanlycut and devoid of all cheekiness; ears small and \u2018\u201cV\u201d shaped and carried close to the cheeks; fore legs extremely strong from the forearm down to the feet, which should be round, deep and very close; neck clean, of fair length and firmly set into oblique shoulders, which should be devoid of all superfluous flesh and muscle; ribs round, strong and well sprung; loin very firm and muscular; quarters broad and muscular; hocks well let down: stern carried very gayly and general outline very smooth and level; color white preponderating; weight about 17 pounds.The smooth variety should possess a dense, hard coat, whole the wire haired variety should have a coat like cocoanut matting to the feel.TOY SPANIELS.Nose very square, with a decided stop; skull high and broad, with large appealing eyes; ears set low on the skully and very long; forelega straight: ribs round and well strung; loin and quarters firm, with a ay carringe of stern.The coat should be flat, and the ears, forelegs and extremities generally very heavily feathered.Varieties \u2014King Charles, black and tan in color; Blenheims, lemon and fwhite in color; Prince Charles, black, white and tan in color, and Rubies, red in color.CURLING.The Branch Tankard.The final matches in the Branch Tankard coinpetition were begun yesterday at the Caledonia Rink, when the riuks from the Caledonia and Ottawa clubs met.The match resulted in a win for the Ottawa rink.The final match will be played this afternoon on the Montreal ice.Yesterday\u2019s matches resulted as follows : CALEDONIA, OTTAWA.RINK I.h Wm, Stuart Wh Briggs D.Wallace J.H.Hutchison W.Hutchison W.Wilson\u2014skip 12.C.Scott\u2014skip 25.RINK IL G.Blair Dr, Hutchison .Lyall .W.Russe y on \u2014skip 18.G.Hutchison\u2014skip 14.Almonte Defeated by Rideaus.[Special to The Herald.) Ottawa, Feb, 23.\u2014The second four rink match of the season was played here this afternoon and evening between teams from the Rideau and Almonte curling clubs.The following were the players and score : Ww.T.McLaurin W.P.Scott Ridcaus.Almontes.B.Britton L.Coneter H.H.Brennan A.M.Bond K.J.Henry W.Anderson R.Junkin Thos.Hunter \u2014ship 18 \u2014ship Il .Pope D.P.Lynch g .AD.Holbrook W.P.McEwen R.J.McConnell ÿ .vi Pollock .Young H.H.Gray \u2014skip 15 \u2014skip 14 H.B.S.Lane R.Chisholm I.H.Raycoeck Jas, Ainley W, McInnes À.Young F.G.Shaw G.Cars ; \u2014skip 14.\u2014skip 19.L.Fraser F, J.Rogers G G.B., G.Peden Dr.Burns yo D.Sutherland T.McArthur E.Waldo G.W.Willoughby \u2014skip 19.\u2014skip 10.Rideau wins by 21 shots.De THE RING.She Mitchell-Corbett Fight.Lake Wood, N.J., Feb.23.\u2014 Charles Mitchell, the English pugilist, left here this morning for New York.To-night Mitchell will meet \u2018\u201c\u201cSquire\u201d Abingdon, and the twa there.will leave for Canada, stopping off at Buffalo.Mitchell and the \u201cSquire\u201d will await Brady's arty in Canada, so as \u2018o sign articles for the proposed fight between Mitchell and Corbett.Mitchell took with him a certificate cheque for $10,000, which he will hand over to Stake-holder Blanchard when the articles have been signed.Hurst vs.Jennings.The coming battle between Hurst and Jennings, which takes place about Saturday, is expected to be the best fight that has ever taken place in or near Montreal.Both men are in the pink of condition and a great fight will be the outcome.Jennings is training hard in Montreal and does his 10 miles every dav.Hurst is training outside of the city.The fight must be to a finish and lovers of the manly art may expect more than the worch of their ticket.SKATING, The Figure Skating Competition Did Take Place.The figure skating competition for the amateur championship of Canada was to have been held at the Victoria rink last evening, but was postponed, owing to one entry having been received, Mr.Dumas, of the Crystal rink.Mr.Dumas was at the rink last evening and attracted considerable notice.Not MR.DAVIE\u2019S SPEECH.Continued form First Page, and that they had refused to give the United States preferential treat.meut Swing to the revenue difficulty.I have given the House every word of Mr.Blaine's official statement and there is not a word in it which either by direct statement or implication proves the truth of the Finance Minister's statements.He charged that so far from going to Washington with a desire to obtain a treaty the delegates had gone there to prevent its negotiation.There never was a fairer proposal than that of Mr Blaine or one more silly than that of Canada.Our delegates hud proposed what they knew could not be got, and they had made that proposal becausc they knew it would be rejected.He challenged Mr.Foster to put his hand on any statement in the record which would showany ground for hisstatement in the ho 1se and dared him to show any basis for suate- ments made for the sole purpose of damning his opponents, Mr.Davies ridiculed the proposition that any treaty which should be negotiated should include Great Britain and the other colonies.The very essence of a reciprocity treaty was that the concessions made should be confined to the contracting parties.The ministers bad done their best to strangle a treaty.Mr.Foster was more responsible than anybody else for the failure to negotiate a treaty and for the loss which would result.The Government had not only failed, but had thrown obstacles in the path of those would follow them.We saw our representatives raising obstacles in the way of negotiations, and Mr.Foster should be condemned for having falsified the facts.Mr.Foster\u2014You had better be sure of that before you state it.Mr.Davies\u2014I am sure of it.I have quoted from the record, which has been kept back by this Government.Iu law, when a man has a piece of important evidence in his possession and keeps it back, the presumption is against him.ENGLAND DID NOT OBJE CT.Discussing the argument that Great Britain would not allow discrimination against her, Mr.Davies recalled the fact that when in 1874 it was'charged that the treaty negotiated by Hon.George Brown, discriminated against Great Britain, that treaty was sent to the Imperial authorities, which had reported that the objection was untenable and worthless now that Canada had freedom of fiscal policy.This treaty provided for exchange of American and Canadian goods at two-thirds rate of duty for the tirst year, at one-third for the next year, and free thereafter.It was thus apparent that this treaty necessarily involved discrimination agaiust Great Britain and the other colonies.Mr.Foster\u2014 Will the hon.Gentleman read another clause?He will find a condition thers that articles admitted free from the United States shall be admitted free from Great Britain.Mr.Davies\u2014How could that be and yet be a reciprocity treaty ?It was impossible, he argued, to arrange a reciprocity treaty which would include more than the contracting parties.The answer of the Im- periel authorities in 1874 showed that they had no objection then to such arrangement, and that they would not object now.Not only had Mr.Blaine\u2019s statements shown how incorrect had been the finance minister, but they had been confirmed by General Foster, who took part in the negotiations and who gave a categorical denial to the finance minister.He would leave him to explain away the dilemma as best he could.The Government had placed all the difficulties they could in the way of a reciprocity treaty, but he had confidence in both his friends (Mr.Laurier and Sir Richard Cartwright) aud when the day comes, as coming it is quickly, they will be able to negotiate a treaty which would not only be fair to the United States but beneficial to the Dominion of Canada.In the meantime they turned their attention to tariff reform and would do their best to rid the country of the National Policy, which waa accursed of God and man.(Loud applause.) MR.COCKBURN DISAPPOINTING.Mr.Cockburn, who followed, did not fulfill the expectation of those who expected tlat he would declare himself far tariff reform, in consonance with his ante-session utterances.He admitted that there was a feeling of agitation in the country againat the tariff, but attributed it to a feeling that we were leaving our safe moorings of 1879 and that if the Government yielded to the clamor forincreased protection theshipofstate might be wrecked.He warned the Government that the Mackenzie administration had been overthrown because they had not paid attention to public opinion.He had faith in the promises of the Government to reform the tariff, approved the reduction of duty on coal oil, stated that he would support the withdrawal of the protection to the cotton industry and to all goods not manufactured in this country.However, he would not seek to force the Guvern- ment\u2019s hand and would await their decision.Incidentally, Mr.Cockburn plumed himself upon lis share in the Baie des Chaleurs investigation and caused quite a scene by his comments upon Mr.Mercier\u2019s conduct.THE CLOSING SPEECHES.Mr.Dawson made a slashing attack upon the national policy and pointed out the latest example of combinations.The trunk and bag manufacturers of Canada had recently combined and increased prices by an average of 11} per cent.This industry had 30 per cent protection.He called upon the Finance: Minister to withdraw the proteo- tion from this combination.Dr.Lachapelle then made his maiden speech in sapport of the Goveinment and denied that Mr.Tarte\u2019s opinions of public feeling in Quebec were correct.Mr.Bruneau, the popular young member for Richelieu, made an excellent speech and Dr.Cameron adjourned the debate.By agreement it was resolved that the budget debate should not be continued until Monday evening at 8 o'clock.It was also arranged that the House should to-morrow take up the supplementary estimates and the adjournmeut was had at 12.30 a.m.Frora: \u201cWhy does Mrs.Minton Worcester invariably wear white this season?\u201d Dora: \u2018Oh, hadn't you heard that her three thousand dollar vase was broken?And white, you know, is the mourning color\u2014for China.\u201d \u201cWho is the chaperon?\u201d \u201cMrs.Tarkington.\u201d \u201cWhat foolishness! sufferer from insomnia.\u201d Why she is a A UNITED MEET.All the Societies in Annual Convention.Canadian Mining Legislation Discussed\u2014 Premier Flelding Speaks\u2014Sudbury\u2019s Opinion ot Mowat\u2019s Mining Act\u2014 Mineral Resources and Mining Industries of the Dominion.Three o'clock in the afternoon found a large gathering of the members in \u201cA\u201d room to hear several interesting papers on various subjects.Captain Adams, in the absence of Hon.George Irvine, presided.The first paper was \u2018Notes on the Mining Law of Ontario\u201d by Mr.À.Blue, director of mines, Toronto.Mr.Blue dealt largely and almost exclusively with the rise and development of mining laws; ia the sister province, from the first gold mining act previous to confed- erution down to the act of \u201992, which has practically consolidated and superseded all previons legislation on the subject.Beginning with theprimitive period when each difficulty, each dispute, each question of royalties, surface rights, timber limits, and various other rights fancied or real, was dealt with as it cropped up by an order-in-council, Mr.Blue traced his subject through all the periodical changes till it had reached its present shape.In the discussion that followed Mr.Pen.hill said that any interference with mining by the Government was a short sighte olicy.Mr.Bell replied that before the Datario mining act had been passed the most valuable mining laads had been purchased for $1 or $2 per acre and locked up by speculators.While the law might require revision in some respects it has done great ood.8 Captain Adams argued that the revenue from royalties should go to the state and not to the individual, As a general thing the owners of nines were not the men who worked then.They bought the mines for a sinall sun and leased them to companies, or got a royalty upon them.He iustanced the Girard case, in Penusylvania, where the trust royalties for last year amounted to $618,000.Had the State reserved the rights to these mines the revenue would have aulounted to 18 millions.Mr.McKay, of Toronto,,was of opinion that there was no uecessity for royal ties on patent lands in Ontario.Mining in Ontario is now in its infancy and should be encouraged, instead of which there was more consideration shown to the liquor traffic.The province shows a hostile spirit to miners by levying a heavy tax on successful mining.Mr.Cameron, of Sudbury, did not object to paying a 3 per cent.royalty if the mine could stand it.Government had the right to sell land as it saw fit, The 3 per cent.royalty was a mere bagatelle, The next paper was \u2018\u2018Notes on the Legia- lation Affecting the Working and Regulation of Mines in Nova Scotia,\u201d by H.S.Poole, F.G.3., A.R.S.M., Stellarton, N.S.He reviewed the early legislation in Nova Scotia from the time when every act passed was with a view to the encouragement of capitalists developing the country.He referred to the qualitications required for cer- titicates and quoted the act of 1881 as not being enforced in the clause ragarding certi- tied officials.The attitude of the department of mines towards the proprietors should be clearly defined.He spoke not in a captious spirit, but because he had been requested to voice the views of the Nova Scotia Society.At the close of Mr.Poole\u2019s, paper there were calls for Premier Fielding, who had been an attentive listener on a back bench.Mr.Fielding was greeted with loud ap- lause.He trusted that all who knew him Enow him too well to think so little of his discretion as to imagine that be would undertake to discuss mining legislation before a meeting of miners.(Laughter), As a eneral thing miners look upon all mining fogislation as bad.However, in many points, he agreed with Mr.Poole, He was not resent asarepresentativeof the Government.gislation in regard to mining eould not be allowed to stand still, as what might be good for one year might be very bad for the next.In the Legislature the laws are occasionally revised and sometimes, perhaps, not much improved by the revision.The mine owners of Nova Scotia had for years moulded the mining legislation of that province, but lately the voice of the workingmen\u2019 hud been heard, and there is now a workingman\u2019s representative in the Legislature.Some of the legislation objected to by Mr.Poole was, he believed, enerally credited to that representative, fe must be remembered, however, that when à measure is brought before the Honse it sometimes happens that its intention is modified by the action of members who have not been thoroughly informed on the matter.He could not but admit that mistakes might sometimes have bren made, and he was here to learn.In Mr.Poole\u2019s paper he thought he noticed a tendency to undervalue the certificates issued to mining officials.It should be remembered that à certificate does not prove that a man has skill or capacity : it means only that he has received a certain measure of training.Mr.Poole stated that legislation regarding mining should all pass under the view of a competent officer appointed by the Government, It is true that private members, that is, those outside of the Cabinet, are disposed to think that the Government centralizes too much.In Great Britain all legislation is directed by the Cabinet, and it is a favorite toast of Americans that there is in Congress no interference with the private initiation of legislation by members.At the next session of the Legislature of Nova Scotia, he was confident that if Mr.Poole and his confreres would come and meet the members of the Cabinet in consultation, they would meet with consideration and belistened to attentively.Ouher papers read in the afternoon were : Notes on the Druimmonds Colliery, by Chas, Fergie, M.E., Westville, N.S., which was read by Mr.B.T.A.Bell, and the Apatite Deposits of the Ottawa District, by De, R.W.Ells, Geological Survey, Ottawa.AMFRICAN INSTITUTE ELECTIONS, At the morning\u2019s session of the American Institute of Mining Engineers several interesting papers were presented, including one on \u2018\u2018Unfreezable Dynamite,\u201d and the scrutineers reported the following as elected officers for next year : President\u2014Henry M.Howe, Boston.Vice-Presidonis\u2014 A.J.Bowlo, jr.San Francisco; Robert G.Leekie, Londonderry, Us.; E.G.Spllsbury, New York.Managers i.H.Campbell, Steelton, Pa.; W.L.Sheafor, Pottsville, Pa.; A.M.Shook, Tracy City, Tenn.Troasurer\u2014T'heodore D, Rand, Philadelphia, Secretary\u2014Rossiter W.Raymond, New Ÿ ork, POWER OF COMPRESSED AIR.Mr.E, P.Hannaford, president of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, occupied the chair at an important meeting of that body held Iast evening.There was a large attendance.A paper was read by Professor John T.Nicholson, B.S., of the fuculty of Applied Science of McGill Uninersity, on \u2018\u201cl'rans- mission and distribution of power by compressed air.\u201d This, he said, was a scheme which had been successfully car- red out in Paris and elsewhere.He claimed that it would greatly cheapen the cost of power and thus be of especial importance in aiding the advancement of small industries.The great central station at Paris had now 15,000 horse power, and this would soon be increased.From this central station pipes were run all over Paris, which ran motion of various sizes.Dynamos for lighting cafes and restaurants were to a very large extent driven by compressed air motors.No accidents had occurred in the use of this motive power, and waiters and servants could attend to them.Another advantage wus that after the air had been used for power, it conld be utilized for cooling or refrigerator purposes in summer, and by the proper treatment for heating in winter.THE EVENING SESSION.At the evening session the united convention continued its session, with Captain Adauns in the chair.The reading of papers was begun by Mr.J.McEvoy, geological survey, Ottawa, who contributed an interesting account of hydraulic mining in British Columbia.He described the primitive methods of mining, formerly used in that and other countries, and presented a theory .on the gold formation of the Kootenay district.In hy- draunlic mining, water is forced through a flume against the gravel banks in which the deposits exist.This method had been used with advantage in localities which had been left practically untouched by mining conducted by the shafting method.\u2018Apatite mining in Quebec\u201d by J.Burley- Smith, of Glen Alinond, caused considerable discussion.Mr, Smith stated the booming of phosphate by speculators has for the present paralyzed the industry.Prices ure now low and there is little prospect of a rise.The old high prices are not likely to come aguin, but on the other hand bottom rates have been rqached and it is very unlikely that the mineral will further depreciate.W.T.Gibbs, F.C.S., of Buckingham presented a paper on \u2018The Electrolytic Extraction of Metals from their Ores,\u201d read by A.P Franchot.The product of chlorine gas by electrolysis for use in the chlorination of gold ores 18 now being generally used in Australia, and could also be used in treating the Ontario and Nova Scotia gold ores with as good results.The uiost ditfcult metal to treat is zinc, which comes down in the form of a spongy deposit.In the treatment of lead this de osit is also formed, but it disappears when cast into pigs, while the zine deposit refuses to melt.The experimental process is now being pushed on rapidly in the treatment of copper ores.Copper, nickel, silver lead and antimony are likely to be the first metals extracted for commercial purposes by electrolysis.Next to these come tin and zinc, but in the treatment of these two there is a marked difference.Messrs.Gibbs and Franchot, of Buckingham are now having built a dynamo qualified to give a current of 3000 amperes at a pressure of 25 volts, which will be used in working out electrolytic processes on a manufacturing scale.Captain Adams read a humorous and vivid account of a visit to West Kootenay, which he styled a \u2018\u2018nightcap,\u201d after the brilliant and learned discourses which had been read.The meeting then adjourned until to-morrow at 10 a.m.TO-DAY'S PROGRAM.Morning at eleven o\u2019clock\u2014Session of United Mining Convention continued.Afternoon at three o\u2019clock\u2014Sleigh drive to points of interest in and around the city.Delegates and their ladies are also invited by the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers to the excursion by rail to the Victoria and Lachine railway bridges over the St.Lawrence river, leaving at 2.30 p.m.Evening, at eight o'clock\u2014Delegates to the convention and their ladies are invited by the directors of the Victoria Skating club to a Fancy Dress Skating carnival in the Victoria rink, Drummond street (immediately behind the Windsor hotel) ; also to a conversazione, given by the governors of McGill university, in honor of the official opening of the new Engineering buildings by His Excellency the Governor-General.Brotherhood of St.Andrew.A meeting of the above society was held last evening in the Synod Hall.The Rev.H.J.Miller occupied the chair and Mr.Manning acted es secretary.The following resolution was proposed by Dr.Davidson, seconded by Mr.Grafton: Resolved, That an carnest and cordlialinvita- tion be given in the name of the chapters of the Srotherhood of St.Andrew, of Montreal, to tho council of the Brotherhood in Toronto that the next annual convention be held in this city, the chapter agreeing to provide hospitality and defray all noccssary ex- ponses in connection with tho said 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the defense of the cause he serves.The South found in him a man of an uncommon ardorya ceaseless activity and an indomitable power of will.\u201d .At the time this description was written Beauregard seemed likely to become one of the most successful of the Southern leaders.A graduate of West Point.of the class of 1838, he had served with distinction in the Mexican war, in which he was twice wounded, and had been brevetted major.He had had long experience as an engineer in the construction of fortifications on the Atlantic and Guif coasts, especially the fortifications of Mobile Bay and the Mississippi river, and in February of 1861 he had resigned as superintendent of West Point, to which he was appointed by Buchanan, after an incumbency of two days, in order to be free to act with the South, In truth, Northern influence had assisted to force him out of this position, but he was eagerly welcomed at the South and was placed in command of the defenses of Charleston, S.C.The bombardment of Fort Sumter was carried on under him, and to him Major Anderson surrendered on April 13, 1861, when under the capitulation allowed by him the garrison marched out with the honors of war.Immediately thereafter ordered to Virginia, he had been in practical command at the battle of Bull Run, July 12, 1861, though Josenh E.Johnston superseded hin at the last moment, and in the spring campaign of 1862, when second in command to General Albert Sydney Johnston in Tennessee, he had taken command of the Confederate army when Johnston was killed at Shiloh on April 6, and nearly succeeded in routing Grant\u2019s army.Forced to retreat next day when Grant was reinforced, he fell back to Corinth in good order, and defended himself successfully until he evacuated that place in the end of May, destroying all his stores, and retreating southward along the Mobile and Ohio rivers.After 1562, however, Beauregard was a less notable figure in the great contest.His health failed and he was on leave of absence until August of 1862, when with the rank of General he returned to the command of the Charleston defenses.Here, though the ity held out for a year and a half against the long siege, his talents were to a certain extent shelved.Charleston fell in April, 1864, and in May Beauregard reinforced Lee at Richmond, defeated Butler at Drury\u2019s Bluff, and held Petersburg against the Federal advance.In October he was appointed commander of the Military Division of the west, and was sent to Georgia to resist the march of the Federals under Sherman.The attempt proved futile, and, joining forces with Gen, Joseph E.Johnston in North Carolina, he surrendered with that officer to Gen.Sherman in April, 1865.After the war Gen.Beauregard settled in New Orleans.He was for some years president of the New Orleans, Jackson and Mississippi Railroad, and later became notorious for the use of his name as one of the two ex- Confederates who were paid $10,000 a year each to certify to the impartiality of the regular monthly drawings of the Louisiana ottery Company.About 1880 he was appointed Adjutant General of Louisiana, and in April, 1887, was elected Commissioner of Public Works, of New Orleans, by the reform Democracy over the regulars, holding that position for a few months only, but long enough to re-organize the office and put it in efficient working order.In addition to his salary from the Lottery Company, General Beauregard has been in receipt of a considerable income as a consulting engineer.During rebellion days he published two works\u2014*Principles and Maxims of the Art of War\u201d (Charleston, 1863), and \u201cReport of the Defence of Charleston\u201d (Richmond, 1864).In 1884 Col.Alfred Roman, formerly of Beauregard\u2019s staff, published a two-volume work entitled \u201cThe Military Operations of General Beauregard in the War Between the States, 1861 to 1865.\u201d The materials and documents for this work were furnished by General Beauregard, who.in a prefatory letter, made himself responsible for all its statements of facts.In 1866, while on a business visit to Europe, General Beauregard was offered the command of the army of Roumania, then a principality still acknowledging the suzerainty of Turkey.This offer he declined, as he soon after did an offer of the command of the Egyptian army.The last-named command wag again offered lo him in 1870, but before he named the conditions on which he would accept, the offer was withdrawn through the influenca of the late George H.Butler, nephew of General B.F, Butler, who was then United States Consul at Alexandria.General Beauregard was born May 28, 3818, the son of a wealthy Louisiana planter.His ancestry was most distiuguished.On the paternal side he was descended from the De Beauregards, Peers of France, and the Toutants, the descendants, settled in France, of a Welsh lord named Tider, who had established himself in France in the thirteenth century.The first of the family who came to America was General Beauregard\u2019s great-grandfather, Jacques Toutant de Beauregard, à commodore in the French navy, whom Louis X1V.had sent to Louisiana to assist the young French colony.On the maternal side General Beauregard\u2019s ancestry was even more distinguished, as his mother was Miss de Reggio, a descendant of the great house of d\u2019Este, which was founded in the tenth century, and gave birth to the Guelphs, whose head in the Brunswich branch now sits on the throne of England.Ancestry, however, did not keep General Beauregard out of a lottery company.The Oldest Newspaper.The oldest newspaper in the world is the King-Pau, or ¢ Capital Sheet,\u201d published in Pekin.It first appeared a.p.711, but was irregular in its issues until 1351.Since then it has been published weekly until the fourth day of June last, when by order of the reigning emperor it was converted into a daily, with three editions, morning, midday, and evening, The first edition appears early, and is printed on yellow paper.This issue is called Hsing-Pau, («Business Sheet \u201d), and contains trade prices, exchange quotations, and all manner of commercial intelligence.Its circulation is little over 8,000.The second edition which comes out during the forenoon, also printed upon yellow paper, is devoted to official announcements, fashionable intelligence, and general news.Besides its ancient title of King-Pau it owns another designation, that of Shuen-Pau, or ** Official Sheet.\u201d The third edition appears late in the afternoon, is printed on red paper, and bears the name of Tilani-Pau (\u2018\u201c Country Sheet\u201d).It consists of extracts from the earliest editions, and is largely subscribed for in the provinces.All three issues of the King-Pau are edited by six members of the Han-Lin.Academy of Sciences, appointed and salaried by the Chinese State.The total number of copies printed daily varies between 13,000 and 14,000.\u2014Selected.The Conservatives Held the Seat.London, Feb.22.\u2014 At the Parliamentary election in Stockport to-day to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Louis J.Jennings, Conservative, Mr.Whitely, Conservative, received 5,264 votes, and Major Sharp Hurne, Liberal, 4,799, PROGRESSIVE DAIRYMEN.Successfu 1 Annual Convention of the Dairy Association of the District of Bedfords.The District of Bedford Dairy Association, opened at two o'clock on Tuesday, the 21st February, at Cowansville, A large and influential nunber of the leading men of the District were there.Mr.H.Foster in the chair gave out the program and after a very few preliminary remarks called on Prof.Robertson to speak.The Professor, an old friend in this section, gave one of his very acceptable talks on the beauties of dairying the good that came tothe men and the cows both from kindness care and intelligence devoted to the business.He dwelt with earnest seriousness on the good of work of an elevated and consciencious laborar in production of usefnl goops and the annobling effect of contract with mother earth and plants, and animals.He also said a few words such as he has already given to the public of his trip to England.Mr.D.Derbyshire of Brockville, the President of theCreameries Association of Ontario was then called on.His magnificent presence and handsome genial face, his sunny smile and hearty disposition so imprinted on his whole personality at once won the regard and favor of the audience.He expressed his pleasure at this first visit to 4 part of Canada where such good cheese was made as to almost equal Brockville\u2019s best.Then in a most happy vien of chafing patronage he patted the people of Bedford on the back and encouraged then to go on and persivere but not to be discouraged if they could not come up to that wonderful Province in which is the most wonderful cuuntry of Leeds in which the men and women, the Sows and milk, the factories and pastures and cheese and butter are the very best of any in the world.He mixed into his chal, which was so good natur- ed and witty as to loseany thing that might be thought to be in it, some serious advice and explanation of the way that success had been attained there, and expressed the hearty wish that a as great or even greater success might be reached here if it was possible.A few good stories intersprised kept all in laughter aud won the hearts of every one.Mr.Eagen of Morrisburg gave a few practical hints, and Mr.MacLaren of Stratford expressed Lis regret that he was not a speaker.Mr.Hodgson of London had come all the way down to aid in doing honour to Prof.Robertson at the banquet, and delighted with what he saw of the people and place.Prof.Barnard was not fecling well but delivered a message of congralutation from Mr.Beaubien and alluded to the necessity of not neglecting the value of hay and straw in the enthusiasm about ensilage and advised the moisening of cut hay and straw for feeding in winter.The President then called on Mr.A.J.Stevens of Mystic to read a paper on winter dariying.This was most appractical application of the advanced theories and sliowed how ordinary farmers could make money by adopting them.Mr.Stevens also advocated the running of factories to use this winter andmilk showed the benefit of workiug together.Prof.Fletcher spoke on insects and the house fly explaining its ravages and its habits and the way to kill it and urged on the farmers to combine and enegeti- cally fight it in the early spring when it could be beaten off whith half the labor which will be required later on.In the evening there was the banquet to Prof.Robertson in Bachelder\u2019s Hotel Sweetsburg.There were fully 200 people present in the afternoon.SECOND DAY.On Wednesday morning the convention reassembled at 10 a.m.Mr.Fletcher, of the Ottawa farm, gave a most interesting address or talk on house plants for the ladies, a number of whom were present.Mr.Fletcher dwelt on the good influence of plants and flowers, how good nature, kindness and happiness were the sure concomitants of a love of flowers.His happy illustrations and expressions of admiration, confidence and love for flowers and women brought down the house.He also showed specimens of some useful native grasses which can be advantageously sowed for hay and pasture in this section especially.He recommended the Austrian Brome grass and blue joint grass.The latter he liad seen all through here in low places and he recommended the gathering of seed in August, and its use on most lands.Mr.Derbyshire again spoke, giving good advice as to building better factories and doing away with the smaller ones.Also he showed the necessity of the very best possible utensils and supplies of all kinds.It was only by paying attention to these things that the Brock- ville section had reached its present preeminent position and he assured the audience that they would have to do the same to attain the same success, The closing of the convention was perhaps the most interesting, for Prof.Robertson opened with his main address of the meeting.Tn this he particularly described the proposals as to the Chicago exhibition and called on the people here to come forward and send in exhibits for the products of 1893 as well as they had in those of 1892.He also called for a fine butter exhibit from this the best butter making section of Canada.He then went on to explain the physiology of food, both for men and beast.He gave the necessary nutritive ingredients in a perfect food and the sources from which they could most cheaply be obtained.No one plantis a perfect food for animals, but the corn stalk is the cheapest food of a bulky nature which can be fed, and to supplement it he had arranged a combination of several plants to be put into the silo with it which would together form a perfect and complete ration.This would save the farmer from his necessity of paying out much money for grain as he now did, and would be just so much money in the pocket of the farmers of Eastern Canada.This combination is corn, English horse beans and sunflower seeds.Those latter supply the fat or oil required, the beans supply the nitrogen and the corn the carbohydrates, each in the largest proportions.He said he wished to have the combination tried in the different parts of Canada and would supply the seed in the right proportions at cost price for next season\u2019s sowing.A number of men immediately applied for the seed.Mr.Derbyshire and Mr.Ayer then gave some very good advice as to cheese boxes and butter tubs, urging that better ones must be used and to attain this a better price paid.Also small factories must be suppressed and larger ones encouraged.Mr.Fisher was called on by the president, and though not expecting to be called on in the presence of the many strangers, said a few words to encourage co-operative butter making by which alone they could place butter making in the same position our cheese trade oc- cupied-that of first place.He also alluded to some develominents of the last season in ensilage.Putting the corn in long had been successfully done and very nice ensilage made.Mr.Foster asked the meeting to elect Children Cry for Pitcher\u2019s Castoria,, pe | \u2014 THE Northwestern Trichloride of Gold Institute LOCATED AT RHINELANDER, WIs., Furnishes an absolute cure for Drunkenness, Tobacco, Morphine and kindred habits.Full information, terms and treaties on these diseases furnished on application.\u201cNo cure no pay.\u201d H.C.KEITH, M.D., Munager, thejotlicers and the old staff were unanimously chosen.An appeal was made for support and notice given of the ensilage convention in Montreal on Thursday and Friday.A very successful convention thus ended.OLD WORLD HAPPENINGS A New Liberal Evening Paper in London\u2014 the Duke of York and Princess May to Marry.The first number of the Westminster Gazette has made its appearance in London.The striking feature of the Westminster is the tone of the paper on which it is printed\u2014a light green.Evening papers, it is explained, are largely read by persons going home in badly-lighted railway carriages and omnibus.White paper and blank ink may do very well for a reader sitting at home, on a steady floor and with sufficient light.But to try and read by the gloomy thing in the roof which railway companies are pleased to call a light.while one is jolted about in a railway carriage, is very injurious to the eyesight.1t has, therefore, been decided to inaugurate the birth of the Westmin- ister Gazette by trying to produce such a tint as will be restful to the eye and not injurious.One decidely adverse opinion has been expressed in connection with the innovation.A spectacle maker in a prominent thoroughfare in London, was asked his opinion, and he said he objected to the change altogether on the gronnd that it would take awaya large part of his business.I believe (writes the London correspondent of the Manchester Courier) that there is now no doubt that the marriage of the Duke of York and Princess May of Teck will take place in April.Practically the Royal apartments at St James's Palace have long been ready for their occupants, but within the last few days certain alterations have been resolved on.and the firm entrusted with the work has been peremptorily informed that it must be completed by the middle of March.Another indication, too, of the fact that the ceremony is not to be long delayed is afforded in the circumstance that a firm of West End decoraters have been told that certain work on which they are engaged must be completed at once.The Princess of Wales and her two daughters are next week to pay a visit to the Palace in order to see how far some little artistic alterations which they had designed have been caried out.The various movements seem to point to a conclusion which which will be welcomed by all loyal Englishmen.This coming season (says the Daily Graphic) London is to witness a naval wedding on a scale of unexampled splendour, if I may believe a confidence which, as a very great secret, has been made to me by some one who ought to know.French burglars are now having a good time.They call at houses, say they are detectives and have authority to search for Panama documents.Being admitted they take away what valuables they can lay their hands on.A curious mishap is reported to have occurred to Mdme.Patti at Milan.She was playing in \u201cLa Traviata,\u201d and had just given the passage \u2018\u2018Amami, Alefredo,\u201d with much dramatic effect, when, rushing precipitately to the exit, she trod on her gown and fell heavily to the floor.Lord Aberdeen made on Friday week his debut asa public singer.At a concert in the New Hall, Haddo House, in aid of a local charity, his Lordship sang \u201cJack o\u2019 Hazeldean,\u201d and subsequently took part with Miss Wetterman in Balfe\u2019s duet \u2018\u201cThe Sailor Sighs.\u201d\u2014Truth.During last year forty-seven estates in Scotland were offered for sale at Edinburgh, the aggregate reserves amounting to £1,414,895.Of these properties, only thirteen have been sold, which altogether realised £217,525, so that any capitalist who desires to invest in Scottish land will find no difficulty in doing so.\u2014Truth.The Daily Chronicle, in summoning up the controversy which has been going on in its columus on the subject \u201c\u2018Is Christianity played out!\u2019 is good enough to admit that it it not and it adds\u2014\u201c\u201c\u2018The hypocrisy of many modern Churches has equalled the hypocrisy of the Roman Empire whon the old religion had died out, and the Augurs laughed in one auother\u2019s faces over the sacrifices.A professed creed of devotion to a great ideal of perfect love and goodness, and of untiring work for buman redemption, goes ill with luxury, greed, conventional morality, bowing to the proprieties and indifference to the claims of brotherhood which Chris tianity implies.\u201d At the annual dinner of the Carse of Gowric Farmers\u2019 Club which was held in Dundee on Tuesday (writes a correspondent).the chair was occupied by Lord Kinnaird, who is an enthusiastic and most useful member of this club, which has done much good work in protecting the farmers of that district from being defrauded through the adulteration of their manures and feeding stuffs.As Lord Kinnaird is well known to be an ardent advocate of teetotal principles, no liquors of any sort were placed on.the table at the commencement of the dinner.As a result of this unwonted intrusion of teetotal practice into a convivial meeting, the diners were observed to be whispering ominously together before the \u201cjoints\u201d were disposed of, and clouds of discontent gathered upon faces which at such meetings are usually wreathed in smiles.These omens were duly noted at the head of the table, and after some whispered consultations the secretary rose and announced thht if any gentleman wished to have \u2018\u2018wine,\u201d he could have it by ordering it.This announcement, however, failed to lift the cloud that had settled on the company.for out of deference to the chairman, the convivial spirits of the company refrained from ordering any wine lest the sight of their enjoyment should cause any pain to Lord Kinnaird.His Lordship, however, soon settled all doubts on that point, for a bottle was brought to the head of the table, and he cordially invited those beside him to help themselves.As soon as the ice was thus pleasantly broken, the bottle passed speedily round.Epps's Cocoa\u2014Grateful and Comforting, \u201cBy a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected Cocoa, Mr.Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many Leavy doctors bills It is by the judicious use of such urticles of diet that a constitution may be gradually.built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease.Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point.\u201d We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fertified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame.\u201d\u2014C'vi Service Gazette.Made simply with boiling water cr milk.Sold only in packets by grocers, labelled\u2014