Montreal daily herald, 17 mars 1896, mardi 17 mars 1896

[" Jr Bearing this CUTLERY Is the Best TRADE MARK FOR JR werosers.ŸX KNIVES.FORKS, SPOONS.Sole Proprieior SIMPSON, HALL, MILLER & GO : 7 Is Aeknowled \u2014 re RIGHTY-NINTH | \\ NO.66.DURATION OF CARLIAMENT: Members Discuss the Length of Their Political Lives.APRIL TWENTY-FIVE CR JUNE THREE Contend That on Those Dates Parliament is At an Imd\u2014In the Senate.é Various members {Special to the Herald.) Ottawa, March 16.\u2014The principal thing before the House to-day was the duration of Parliament, which was introduced by Mr.Edgar on a motion to adjourn.The concensus of opinion was in favor of the contention that the last day on which Parliament can legally sit is April 24.The Goverument, through the Minister of Justice, pleaded the uncertainty of law \u2018and the existence of diverse opinions as to the proper date.Sir Hibbert Tupper - that June 3rd is the only date which can be thought of for a moment, and was quite willing to throw doubt on the legality of the sitting of Parliament between April 29 and June 3, 1891, in grder to gain time for the passage of the Remedial Bill.Mr.Edgar referred to the extraordinary proposition of submitting a question to the Supreme Court.The statutory life of Parliament was clearly and distinctly fixed by section 50 of the B.IN.A.Act, and if the date of the return of the writs could be satisfactorily fixed it would end all controversy.That day must surely be the day fixed by the proclamation, and according to that the statutory life of the present Parliament expired in five years from April £5, 1891, \u2018The\u2019 words of the proclamation were: \u201cWe have this day given our orders for the issue of our writs in due form for the calling of a Parliament in our Dominion of Canada, which said writs are to bear date the fourth day of (February and are to be returned on the twenty-fifth day of April next.\u201d No exception was made in any case, but Mr.Edgar pointed out that in 1867 the proclamation made special provision for the county of Chicoutimi and Saguenay, In 1872 for the mame county and for Manitoba and British Columbia, and in 1874 for all these constituencies and Gaspe.Algoma having been overlooked in that year, a special proclamation was issued fixing the return of the writ there.If the writ in 1891 was not properly issued it was the fault of an official somewhere and ceuld not affect the legal question.\u2018The practical effect of the contention that Parliament did not end till June was that the first session of the seventh Parliament could not have begun till June 7, 1891, for the con- äuxution says that a Parliament shall continue for five years and no longer.If this contention was upheld would have to face the absurdity that the Speaker had never been legally elected, that Parliament had been sitting as a Parliament for forty days illegally, and that Speaker, Deputy Speaker and members had been drawing salaries and inGemnities without right for that time.But Parliament by legislating for six sessions had claimed and proved itself to be de facto and de jure a Parliament, with, which no Supreme Court could interfere.Even if it spoke it would be only adviscry, but it was not likely it would act in a matter involving private rights which might come before it judicially.The Ontario precedent had been quoted, but did not bear on the case, &s the proclamation calling a new legislature in 1879 made special provision for Algoma.There were doubts expressed all around, Mr.Edgar said, and the simplest plan was not to sit after April 25th.The Minister of Justice declined to discuss the merits of the question, which \u2018was one of law, and the construction to be placed on the B.N.A.Act, or to give hia own opinion upon the point.Mr.Mills: \u201cParliamentary law.\u201d Mr.Dickey dwelt upon the glorious uncertainty of the law, and the possibility of there being points wherein Mr.Edgar\u2019s argument might be confuted.There was, in fact, wide divergence of opinion among lawyers.It seemed to him that the \u201cdate of the refurn of the writs\u201d was the actual day of return, and was fixed by the last return.\u2018The election act gave refurning officers a statutory time within which to return the writ, and there was a doubt whether the Gover- nor-General, by proclaiming a date earlier than the last possible day of return, could Hmit the time specified by the election act.The legality of the sitting of Parliament prior td June 3, 1889, was a different thing from the question as to \u2018when the five years duration of Parliament expired.\"The hon.gentleman before sitting down again expressed his feeling that the point was one that could not be settled off hand, but was open to many constructions._ Hon.David Mills pointed out that the writ in the Algoma election mnst have been improperly executed through the fault of either the administration or the returning officer.Thé nomination was held on April 18th, within the statutory time, but the election did not take place until May 20th.By Magna Charta the Commons meets forty days after the proclamation calling for the election of a hew parliament, and is legally constituted then even though all the\u2019 members are not present.But Parliament has nd regular or legal existence until after the last day on which a member can be elected, as was held in the case of the Old legislature of Quebec in 1820, when the House met hefore the election of Mr.Monk for Gaspe.It was absurd to think that a returning officer could fix the date for an election at a later time than that fixed by the proclamation of the Governor-General.Mr.Mills advised the Minister of Justice or some one on be- halt of the Government to look up all the old acts.He had no doubt that Parliament expired on April 25th; and as they could not afford td have any doubts on .the point, the only thing to do was to cease to exist on that date., Sfr Charles Tupper promised that the Government would consider the : matter Promptly in view of the opinions ex- Pressed from both sides of the House, and on arriving at a conclusion would convey it to the House at an early date._ Dr.Weldon said that section 50 fixed the duration of each Parliament in equi- Vocal terms, but the time at which it began was not so clear, though still almost beyond doubt.It seemed to him that Parliament had stopped itself by Its own actions on and after April 29th, 1891, and could not possibly sit beyond boldly declared - theye MONTREAL, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1896.PRICE ONE CENT.ith.He expressed a strong view, liament began to live.on the il, 1891, and would die by the of time at midnight on the il next.H.Davies maintained that ld be no doubt or uncertainty .«offlS legal point.The B.N.\u2018A.Act id noc contemplate that there should be various dates for returning the writs, but that all should be returnable on the same day.When the constitution states that a Parliament shall last for five years from the day of the return of the writs, when the Governor-General issued a proclamation fixing that day, and when: an election was held pursuant to that proclamation there couid be no ques- tioni as to the day upon which Parliament began, and the day on which it died.If any returning officer held an election after the time mentioned in the proclamation, that election would be undeniably void, but it would not affect the legality of the existence of Parliament.It might be possible for some lawyer to raise a quibble, but no sensible lawyer or layman would interpret section 50 as giving Parliament any right to sit beyond April 25th.Sir Hibbert Tupper expressed his firm belief that the life of Parliament dated from the return of the last writ and what the present Parliament, therefore, expires on June 3.He made the statement that if was the opponents of the Remedial Bill who supported the view that Parliament expired on April 25th, while the supporters of the bill would like to sec Parilament live long enough to carry that measure.He made a suggestion that the Committee on Privileges and Elections might consider the point.Mr.Choquette stated that the general view among Quebec lawyers was that April 25 was the date and he read an extracel from the Mcniteur, de Levis, written, he believed, by Senator Landry, maintaining that it would be a breach of the constitution tending to anarchy to sit longer.This concluded the discussion.After recess the House entered on a consideration of some of the many motions on the order paper.Mr.Davin brought up the claims of the Scouts of Willow Bunch, Wood Mountain, Maple Creek, and Moose-Jaw, und moved that in the opinion of the House the Minister vÎ Militia should take steps to have serip given to them if entitled under the act of 1886.; Mr.Daly, on behalf of the Minister, stated that if these scouts were entitled to their claim they would Ve attended to.Hitherto the facts alleged by Mr.Davin had not been placed before the Minister.Mr.McMullen protested against the yearF ly raking-up of still more claims on account of the rebellion, and against the giving away of valuable lands on the eve oi an election.Colonel Amyot thought that the mem?ber for Wellington was unjust to the prave and heroic men who fought in the Northwest.Mr.McMullen=1I made an exception in your case.(Laughter).Col.Amyot\u2014You laugh at my humble sacrifices when 1 left this Parliament to expose my life for my country, (Onvosi- tion laughter) but that does not dimin: Ish my humble sacrifice in the eyes of my fellow-countrymen.The motion passed without more discussion.Mr.Martin had the floor for a considerable time with some British.fZol- umbla and Winnipeg matters.His energy in taking the part nf the Facific Province roused its representatives, none of whom, not excepting the {Controller of Inland Revenue, are often heard.The latter, indeed, rather though Mr.Martin was going outside his duties, although mo British Columbia member has ever seen fit to bring up the subjects discussed by Mr.Martin.A number of questions were answered SES sl quo {td pe i the claim of St.Louis\u2019 and the judgment 0: the Supreme Court was before the Department of Justiole to determine \u2018its legal aspect.When arerort was received a policy would be developed.Mr.Rider asked for the amounts paid to the Mombreal Gazette for advertts- ing, printing and litographing, during the past five years, but Mr.Foster refused to.answer.; a In reply to aquestion from Mr.Mv- Shane, the Controller af SCustoms stated that last year the Mount Roya Milling Co.had exported 261,000 pouncis of ricemeal, valued at $4,665, an which the Government had granted a refund of ninety per cent.of the duty collected on the uncieaned rice, amounting to $776.Mr.Casey was informed that after hearing the opinion of experts and mature deliberation, the Government had chosen the Lee-Enfield magazine rifle lor the re-arming of the militia.The arm is practically the same as the Lee- Metlord in use by the Imperial forces, having the Enfield barrel with ime proved grooving, which largely ine creases its range and utility, is the latest pattern, and that with which the Imperial troops will be armed.Just before adjournment Sir Richard Cartwright asked if arrangements had Bin made for a division on the Remedial ill.Mr.Foster, after narrating the conferences he had had with Mr.Laurier, said ,it was definitely fixed that a division should take place at the close of to-morrow\u2019s sitting.It was proposed to resume the debate at 3 o'clock and continue it until a vote was reached.The House adjourned at 10.35 p.m.Hon.Wilfrid Laurier, leader of the Opposition, is confined to his room with Influenza.To-night, by request of Hon.G.E.Foster, Minister of Finance, Mr.PA.Choquette, a prominent French Liberal, waited upon Mr.Laurier with a proposition that Hon.A.R.Dickey, Minister of Justice, and Mr.Laurier go to Winnipeg with the object of adjusting the school dificulty! Mr; Laurier de- ciined to give an answer until t&-mor; row, IN THE SENATE.In the Senate this afterroon Chairman Kirchoffer df tbe Divorce Committee pre: dented a report asking that the bil} of Jas, Pearson for divorce from his wife be withdrawn.The repory will be congidereä tomorrow.There was a lengthy discussion on the mo~ the Canady and Michigan Bridge and Tunnel Co.Senator Almon brought the matter up by stating that as the Detroit was ap international river, ib would be an act of dis.vourtesy for the Canadian Parliament td pass such a bill without the concurrence of tne United States Congress.Senator MacDonald, Victoria, explained that the company had already power under a Dominion acti ¥0 construct a low level bridge.The present bill provided for the construction of a bigh level bridge with a spar of eleven hundred feet.He did mot think that such a bridge would interfere with ravigation.Senators Vidal and McDonald, P.E.L; opposed the construction of such a bridge, and Senators McInnes and McCallum favored it.The motion was carried.A number of bills were advanc:d a stage, after which the Senate adjourned.Mr.Haggart bas given notice of am wot to amend thie Government Railways Act.to-day.Mr.McMullen was ipformed that, tice fr the third reading of a hill respecting THE CITY'S FINANCES.Many Claims Considered and a Pile of Work Done, There was a meeting of the Finance Committee yesterday afternoon, all the meraber« being present, except Ald.Me- Bride À certain number of claims were at tended to, including a number of claims for damages caused by the Bleury Street break, from proprietors who had accepted the amounts awarded by the experts.These last mentioned claims were not considered, however, ior there was no certificate from the experts affixed to the report.The provincial electoral list imbroglio was then taken up and disenc-d at length.Ald.Beausoleil criticize.severely the way the matter kad been: managed, and he said that there was something wrong somewhere, but City Clerk David read a letter from the City At torrey, stating that the lists could be revised within thirty days after the 15th of March, and the Jetter stated that there was an understanding with the Hon.L.O.Taillon that it there is anything wrong everything will be nade right at the next session.So Mr.David will give public notice to-morrow, as he had stated to a Herald reporter yesterday morning.The City Treasurer drew the attention of the committee to the fact that Mr.St.George had spent $54,740 for the removal of the snow from the Streets through which the Street Railway\u2019s tracks are laid, and that that amount exceeds the amount which is owed to the City by the Street Railway Company by $2,3)), and as there had been no appropriations for that purpose Mr.Robb asked that more money be voted to continue the work, But the committee came to the conclusion that the city can get along without removing the snow and resolved to pay the $2,000 which has been overdrawn, but that after Wednesday next all the men employed at that work be discharged.If there is a big storm a special appropriation will be voted.Arthur Glopensky, counsel for the Du- fresne Estate, waited upon the committee and asked the members to settle his clients\u2019 long outstanding claim of §:2- 000, for a property which was expropriated several years ago.A suk-:ommittee composed of Aldermen Savignac, Beau- £oleil and Connaughton, was formed to look into the matter and treport to Ghe committee.: The chairman asked the City Attorney what steps he had taken to get \u2018rosses- sion of the Chateau de Ramezay prc- perty, which had been purchased by the city some timei ago.«+1 © Mr.Roy answered that he had written to the Hon.Mr.Pelletiér on the subject and that gentleman answered that Mr.Roy's letter would be submitted toi the Minister of Public Works; that was all that had been, done.Co AW.Rainville\u2014\u2018Why have you not taken proceedings as instructed?\u201d Mr.Roy\u2014\u2018\u2018Because as this matter was a delicate one, Ipwanted to consult my committee before taking action.\u201d Alderman Beausoleil said that it was a shame to have patl F15,000 over the ctual cost, just to get! possession of the property and to-d&y have to go before the courts tp get cur swmy property, for which had been paid $012,000.The chairman answered that it was because titles were not clear, although an amount of $10,000 had beeh paid to clear the property.The City Attorney was ir- Mr.Robb asked the committee what Structed to enter su't at once.was to be Hone with thie old Porter vro- perty, on visitation Street, which now belongs to the city.It was decided ta sell it amd experts will estimate the value of the property and then the pre- perty will be offered for sale, through the newspapers.The committee instructed the City ;At= torney to take proceedings against the Municipality of Maisonneuve for an amount of $3,000 for water taxes, and to have the water turned off, if the money is not immedihtely paid.J this junktion, hiowever, the committee coming to a conclusion, no doukt, that any further business might be tao interesting for the public, dismissed the reporters, and continued the meeting be- bind closed doors, instead of letting the ess Judge for itself what mig of public interest.{ ment oe = ST.PATRICK'S DAV.St.Patiick\u2019s Day, 1897, promises to prove a memorable ome.All that cam bo done Has been done, and it remains for nature herself with good weather to c ?ap the most successful celebration in recent years And from all appearartes she ig likdy tio do Her part.The county roads ard in splendid shape, in marked contrast with Inst year, when they were much broken up.The procession will be more impressive than us- nal.The different cocieties will muster on Craig Street at 9 o'clock, ang proceed to St.Patrick\u2019s Church for grand mass, Thc route to Lo taken after leaving the church is as flows : Along Craig te Panat Street; and returning, along Notre Dame to Piece d\u2019Armes Square, down St.James Street to McGill, to St.Patrick\u2019a Hall, 228 MeGili, where addresses will be delivered, THE ST.JOHN'S TROUBLE.District Court Martial to be Held to Decide thie Matter.The court martial which will fnvesti- gaie the charges of mutiny brought against the attached men at St.Johan's military school, is to be composed of Lieut.-Col.Duchesney, Deputy-Surgeon- General Campbell and Major Young, À.R.C.I.The case has attracted much attention among military men all over Car- ada, owing to the thorough expose that the Herald has given of tt and the pre- ceedings of the court will be marked with interest.The court will convene either to=day or to-morrow, = \u20ac, POLITICAL NOTES.Rumored Intention of Mr, Jos, Martin M.P., to Retire.Winnipeg, Marck 16.\u2014Tne Free Press Ot tawa correspondent this morning confirms the report that Mr.Joseph Martin, Winnipeg\u2019s member of the Commons, contemplates retiring from politics.The corres pondent! has the word of Mr, Martin for the statement, but nevertheless politicians Here canot bring themselves to accept it.Pre mier Greenway bluntly said this morning he did not believe it,and! MT, Mathors, law partner of Mr.Martin said be was at a lose to understand the report.Conservatives here say that all Maïtin wants is to be ocabred to 1e- main.lt is said, though, on good authority ttat Mr.Martin hes received an offer dû a position of solicitor for a large railway in tere, which, if he accepls, will recess tath his retirement.The position will be one of the most important in Canada.Tf Mr.Martin should retire the names of Mr.Isaac Campbell, Q.C., and J.N.Ashäown aro mentionieï] as probable candidates ab the next eleutionis in the Liberal inter.sts, Discussing the [ropo¥eq conference on the school question, the Nor'Wester to-night! says : \u201cIb js hoped that it will hear fruit for the sake of tha country.Mr.Greenway has now au cpportunity of showing to the world that the accusations which bave bee hurled ab Lis head\u2014tdat he was mani;ulat- ing the school question for ihe advantage of Mr.Laurier and bis political friends at Ot tawa\u2014was basdless, Mr.Greemvay has an oppoltunity of showing that with Fedoal legislation staring the whole of the province in\u2019 the face he is capable of rising superior to petty party spirit, and not only doing justice 10 a minority of his countrymen, but also removing from party politics a question of sich o character that ib seriously affects the progress of public affaire of anxious concerr to the people of this province.\u201d In the Manitoba Legislature to-day a bill, introduced by a Patron member, to make if illegal for legislators to accept free railroad passes, was voted down.The Legista- ture w 11 prorogwe Wednesday.Cornwall, March 16.\u2014 The Alexandria Lib- gral Club Have elected the following dide gates to attend the Ontario Federation of Liberal Clubs, to bo had ab Cttawa co Thursday next: Messrs.J.T.Schell, M.Munro, ¥.T.Costello, W.A.McCrea J.Huot, Nap.Bray, F.Groix, E.Crarlebois, J.A.[MeMillan; W.J.Sitrpson} James} Lo- thian and A.G.F.Macdonald.Toronto, March 16.\u2014The young Lib: eral Club to-night discussed and voted down a motion condemning departmental stores and formulated a letter, to be sent to Hon.W.Laurier, re-affirming the confidence \u2018of the club in him as leader, and fully endorsing his attitude on the public questions of the day.A GAZETTE CANARD.Lefebvre & Co.Have Not Assigned and Will Resist the Demand, Alderman Lefebvre was interviewed by a Herald reporter last evening and he stated that the report in yesterday's Herald was correct, for Michel Lefeb- vre and Co.have not assigned, nor do they intend to assign, in spite of the reports to the contrary.\u201cIt is true ithat there was a demand filed this afternoon at the Prothonotory\u2019s office, but we will contest the demand to-morrow.morning, and not only will we make a stubkorn fight,.but I am confident that everything will be settled without an assignment.I wish you would state,\u201d he went on, \u201cthat I am all the more surprised at the step that the Banque du Peuple has taken, that our account was fully guaranteed by the mortgage.Why did they mot make their managing director, Alph.Leclerc, pay up, he who hag overdrawn hils account of from $60,- 000 to $80,000.They want to close down on the most importgnt French Cana-, dian house which still retains the eon- fidence of all its creditors.I received telegrams to-day from all over the country from clients and creditors who had been led to believe that we had fallen, conveying to us their sympathy and of- faring us financial help.\u201d \u201cWill you resign your seat in the City Council ?\u201d he wag asked.\u201cNo, I will hot; and I authorize you to say that the persons who speculate on my leaving the Council are sadly mistaken this time, and their calculations are rather premature, for, ais I said before, we will not assign and will get out of this difficulty with flying colors, ko there will be no necessity of resigning.\u201d The above clear statement from Mr.Lefebvre puts an end to all wild racontars which were circulated yesterday through the dailies.VENEZUELAN DISPUTE: Proposals to Great Britain From the United States, London, March 16.\u2014The Under-Secre- tary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr.George N.Curzon, in the House o: Commons to-day admitted that the Government had received o:ficial prorosals from the United \u2018States relative to the Venezuelan dispute, and that they were now under consideration.He added that it was not the practice to state the nature of the proposals while they were under negotiation; but, it was not correct to describe them, as stated in the question pul to the Government, as an expression upon the part où the United States of willingness to accept or propose a scheme for a joint commission to report on the pute.Venezuelan boundary dis- CONSERVATIVE TACTICS.Joseph.H.Jacob, secretary of the Sir John Macdonald Club, returned home yesterday from a trip to Ottawa where he Waited upon the Premier and his Ministers.Mr.Jacob stated to the Herald \u2018that he arranged for the distribution of a loi of campaign literature, the organization of the Montreal district, and the selection of suitable headquarters for the Conservative party in this district during the coming general elections, which he believed, although uncertain, were not far off.The local headquarters were likely to be located on the business part of St.James Street.between St.Fran- cols! Xavier and McGill Streets.An improved scheme cf his own suggestion would be utilized in sending out literature in this province, and Honorables Ouimet and Desjardins would be in town this week to verify organization.In the contesc for St.Lawrence Division the meeting of private parties to nominate\u2019 candidates would in future nct be recognized by the cily Conservative clubs.Five officers from the respective Conservative party clubs have been chosen as à committee to arrange the best Pôssi- ble means of reaching electors.Two candidates remained to be selected, namely, Mayor Wilson Smith and Donald Mac- master, Q.C.One of these men was certain to accept the nomination.STATES POLITYCS, Hon.Justice Hamilton 8.Peck, mayor-elect of the city of Burlington, Vt., is at the Queen\u2019s.Mr.Peck is the secretary of the Republican State Committee, and has for several years been city judge.- He is in town on private tusiness, and is a most entertaining visitor.He said that he thought New England would vote a solid Presidential ticket for Hon.Speaker T.B.Reed, of Maine, and that the party issue would consist of tariff and silver.The undercurrents of party feeling were not yet showing in the political ranks, but \u201cTom\u201d Reed was the favorite candidate.Mr.Peck wilt be in town, a couple of days.SYMPATHY FOR ITALY.The Keynote of Mr.Geo.N.Curzon\u2019s Speech in Parliament.ON BRITAIN'S EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN.Strong Movement Against European Arms Feared in the Soudan\u2014 Military Action in Anticipation.London, March 16.\u2014A Cabinet council, lasting two hburs, took place this af- ternopn.The ccmmander-in-chief, Lord Wolseley, was-in attendance and it is understozd that the Soudan campaign was further discussed.Cairo, March 16.\u2014The Egyptian troops have started for Wady-Halfa, where the entirc Soudan expeditionary force is expected to be assembled on April 1, on which date the advance on Dongola will be commenced.à London, March 16.\u2014According to special despatches received! here from Cairo, a narrow gauge railroad will be built along the Nile fpr the ude of the British expedition.: London, March 16.\u2014The greatest possible interest was manifested in the House of Commons to-day when the Liberal leader, Sir.Wm.Vernon Har- court, put his question to the Goverr- ment regarding the proposed advance lof British-kigyptian troops up the Nile from Wady Halfa.When the Under Secretary for For- elgn Affairs, Mr.George N.Curzon, rose to reply the attention of the whol& House was immediately centred upon his utterances.Mr.Curzon's answer was in the shape of a long and evidently carefully prepared statement, during which he pointed out the threatening Dervishes\u2019 advance and their danger to Egypt, and indicated that the movement of trcops arose partly from a desire to aid Italy in its struggles with the #.bys- sinians.101 Continuing Mr.Curzon said the Government was sure that all the subjects of Her Majesty would have the most sinsere sympathy for Italy in the reverses which the latter\u2019s arms had suffered in \\frica and he expressed regret at the defeat of General Baratieri at the battle of Adowa.\u2019 \u2018This statement brought forth loud Nationalist cries of \u201cNo.\u201d Mr.Curzon continued that the courage of the Italians led to the hope that they would arise from their reverses and vindicate the honor of their flag.Mr.Curzon then sald: \"At the present moment influences are at work and forces gre unchained in Central Africa, which,.if flushed with victory and swol- \u2018len by\u201ca perfectiy possible combination of forces, would constitute a most serious danger not merely to Italy, Egypt or the British occupation of Egypt, but Lo the cause of Europe, which is the cause of civilization.\u201d Through Mr, Curzon\u2019s speech the Irish interjected cries of \u201cOh,\u201d and when Mr.T.M.Healy, among others, cried \u201cNo,\u201d to the Under-Secretary\u2019s expression: ofe sympathy with Italy, Mr.\u201cHealy's followers cheered.The speaker paused for an instant and continued: \u201cA sympathy which is not broken by a few dissentient volces at a misfortune which has befallen a nation of gallant soldiers and staunch allies.\u201d (Great cheering.) ; _Kontinuing, Mr.Curzon said that th Government had for some time been aware of the threatened advance of a large force of Dervizshes.The advance threatened three widely objective points, among them Dongola.The Government had been in possession of this information since the end of February.The immediate objective point of 'the Dervishes was perhaps Kassala, but there was an ultimate danger, the result of which could not fail to react uron Egypt.The information which had reached the Government had caused considerable anxiety, he said, whjch had deepened siñce the report of the disaster to the Italians in Abyssinia.Not only were The Italian forces there in difficulties, but Kassala itseif is threatened by a force of Dervishes, estimated to be 300,000 strong./ The Government, \u201cMr.Curzon said, Mad been in constant communication with the \u2018Government of Iigyri, and the opinion of the military authorities, roth here and in Cairo, was that an advance up the Nile is necessary.Consequently an ac- vance of British troops bas been ordered to a town one-third of the distance between Wady-Halfa aad Dongola, and it may ultimately be made to Dongola.Referring to the report that the expedition was primarily destined for Dongola, Mr.Curzon said, the future actions of the Government must be regulated by considerations not merely of military importance, but of political and financial moment, as well.The Govern- meni was convinced that the steps which it had decided upon would act as a diversion for the relief of Kassala, and alsd save Egypt from a menace, which, if left alone, would grow to formidable dimensions.Mr.Labouchere, member for Northampton, in moving to adjourn the House of Commons in order to discuss the ipro- posed advance on Dongola, complained of the hypocrisy of the British policy and claimed that financiers were the root of the whole business.Continuing, Mr.Lahcuchere quoted from a blue bcok the conversation which Mr.Gladstone had with the Fremch Ambassador in which the English statesman declared that Great.Britain would never attemp to reoccupy Dongola.The result of the present policy of the Government, according to the member for Northampton, would be that the great powers would unite and insist upon Great Britain fulfilling her pledges.Sir Charles Dilike, member for the Forest of Dean division of \u2018Gloucester, supported the motion to adjourn, and in go doing said that the British policy would strain Great Britain's relations pointed out, was aot in the direction of Kassala, but in the direction of Khäa:- toum.The motion was eventually rejected by a vote of 28 to 126.Loadon, March 16.~The remarks of the Under-Secretary for the Foreign Office to-day, have confirmed the belief which has been growing during the past week, that Great Britain had thrown in her fortunes with the Dreibund, or at least that she is making a strong bid for the friendship and support of those powers.{{02rtainly nothing could be very kuch plainer than Mr.\u2018Curzon\u2019s language, when he affirmed that the projected British advance arase partly from a desire to aid Italy, \u2018a nation,\u201d as he af- terwarde declared in response to Irish ° ° ° o at least twenty-five per cent, by : : è : : ° 0 è 0 $ 6 $ buying your Shirts at : ?6 ; Before buying Shirts said to be just as good as Tooke\u2019s, it will pay you to compare the quality, style and value of our goods.You can save .J.Tooke\u2019s, 177 ST.JAMES STREET.wih the powers for years.Dongola, he \u2018 4 Noted Dark Colors of ARE EXZEPTIONALLY MILD, And are equally as fine in quality as ths this oy TRADE MARS Famous Brand.MA CR RTE AC TE Is No Argument Necessary vtt.When it comes to SHOES.Those who want First Class Goods ab {Reasonable Prices, come to us.H.STEWART 2295 St.Catherine St.Mr.Holland.who bought a handsome = Importers of Wife Wrong : Husband Right \u201cMy wife was afraid to come to a large store like yours, She thought all your Wall Papers would be too expensive for her, so went and bought at a small place on St.Lawrence Street, and; paid 40c a double \u2018roll for it, and I don\u2019?like it.\u201d These were the remarks of a mechanic from us last Saturday at 20c a double roll, and went away happy, thoroughly convinced that he had bought right and his wife wrong.We handle all grades of Wall Papers.G.A, HOLLAND & SON, \u201cEuropean and American Wall Papers and Room Mouldings, 2411 ST, CATHERINE STREET.24843 %84313390 080 interruptions, \u2018of gallant soldiers and Ra allies.\u201d Such language would not be used by a high Government representative speaking in the House of Commons, were there not a tangible and definite understanding between the two countries.As for the part which Germany and Austria play in the new arrangement the Associated Press despatches have already pointed out the signiiicange pre, could not but attach to the rece visit .of Count Goluchowski, the Austrian Prime Minister to Berlin.Coincident with this event, also, was the \u2018meeting.of Queen Victoria.and the Austrian Emperor, Francis Joseph, last Friday.This meeting, it is understood, was brought about through the diplomacy of Count Goluchowski, who considered Great Britain's co-operation with the Dreibund a point to be desived.This meeting between the Queen of Tng- land and the Austrian Emperor, it may be mentioned, was the first that has ever taken place between those sovereigns.It is to be supposad that the relations of Great Britain and Germany have, in the light of these doings, assumed a more friendly phase than they bore at the time the Kaiser sent his famous message to President Kruger, of the Transvaal.; London, Mazch 17.\u2014The proposed exppdi- tikm up the Nile valley is the leading topic of discussion in alll ciicles in Explawd and the London newspapers this morcing give almost their whole space tc the subject.The political aspects of the movement have fir:b place in the public mind, though the papers bave many \u2018\u2018tggcstions also drom military authorities on the campaign.But it is moticeable that tbe military Plans which have for tb\u2018ir objective the Dervish disturbances in thé Soudan without due at- tenfion to the effects upon Italy\u2019s situation in Abyssiria are bimebrd add \u2018as! impractie- \u2018able, In fact) it is taken for granted that practically ihe sole purpose of {he campaign is for the reltei of Italy, as a friendly power and the resulting increase of core diality of relations with the triple alliance.G endial ys dye is ome of 1083 who writes to the Tiines ang.pcints ouf the military diffe ties of thle propeseld operations.He saggests trat it would be wise to wait for ttle cocl season in thé autumn before enter ing upon the cCampaisn, advancing thew by way of Suakim and Berber.But ihe chic.tion is promptiy urged against tlis argument tial it would nob assist Italy, which, it is pointed out, \u201cis kme ofl the chief aims of the Coverament.\u201d Otllerwise it is admitted that thie expedition and thætrarsport service coureccted with it would te much easier in the autumn {han now.The Dailv News), in discussing ths prospects of thie expedition, says ibat military men are dead against British scldiery trying to cross the terrible desert from Suakim to Berber) while the wells and water are under control of Osman Digna\u2019s forces.They also, the Dailv News asserts, advo cate go.ng very warily, while the beat pred vents tbe employment of British soldiers to give cenfidence to the wgyption forces.who will be employed in the campaign.(A CONSIGNMENT of Grey Enamelled Silverware amounting in value to $2481, just arrived and will be sold at a sacrifice.The lot consists of Tea Kettles, Lipped Saucepang, Preserving Kettles, Ladles, Spoons, Cuspidores, Cake and Pudding Pans, Milkpans, Plates, Bowls, Don\u2019t buy elsewhere, Come and see them.At Semmeihaack\u2019s Bazaar Store, 83 St.Lawrence St.TO-DAY'S WEATHER.Fair and Warmer.Toronto, March 18.\u2014There is a depres sion developing off the middle Atlantic coast, and snow is setting in over the Maritime Provinces.Fair weather «is general in Ontario and Quebec, with a few light local snow falle.High pressure is covering the Northwest, where it is mostly fair with light local snow falla and moderate temperatures.\u2018 TEMPERATURES.Minimum and maximum temperatures?Calgary, 36\u201436; Battleford, 14\u201432; Qu\u2019 Appelle, 8\u201428; Winnipeg, 10 below-\u201434; Parry Sound, 00\u201482; Toronto, 14-29; Ottawa, zero\u201422; Montreal, 22\u201424; Quebec, zero\u2014 30; Halifax, 6\u201430.: PROBABILITIES.Georgian Bay and Lower Lakes\u2014Falr weather, a little higher temperature.Ottawa Valley \u2014 Irisk north to west winds, fair, preceded by light local snow; a little higher temperature.; St.Lawrence\u2014Fair, preceded by light snow.Stationary or a little higher temperature.MONTREAL TEMPERATURES.Temperatures observed by Hearn and Harrison's standard thermometer, 1640 and 1642 Notre Dame Etreet\u20148 am, 4 1 p.m., 23 6 p.m., 23; max., 23; min, 1; mean., 12.Stadard barometer\u20148 a.My 36.08; 1 CW 30.05; 6 p.m., 29.93.Steamship Arrivals March 16.Arrived at.From Seandanavian \u2026 Glasgow .Boston Cufie \u2026 .Liverpool .New York Egremont Castle.Liverpool .Halifax Lake Huron .Liverpool .St.Johny Boris \u2026 .vuvesces Liverpool \u2026 New York Scotia \u2026 \u2026 \u2026 .Greenock .New York Schiefam .Amsterdam .New York Kaiser Wiehelm I[.Gibralter \u2026 New York Aachen .«.New York .4.Bremer Furnessia \u2026 \u2026 Moville \u2026 \u2026 \u2026 \u2018New York Laurentian .Moville .Halifax DURING THE MONTH OFMARCH.20 Pieces of Furniture for $50.00, Comprising Parlor Set, Bedroom Set, Dining-room Set and Kitchen for $50 spot cash at Frederic Lapointe\u2019s, 1561 St.Catherine Street.\u2018Get our prices if you intend furnishing.\u201d Open evenings.| - ha Died Aged [00 Years, Hamilton, Ont., March 16.\u2014Mrs.Mary Warren, a native of County Clare, Ireland, who has lived in Hamilton since 1841, died last night at the advanced age of 100 years.: \u2014 al _ a ee 2 MONTREAL DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1896.TOPICS OF THE SPORTING WORLD, Interest Early Manifested in the Coming Woodbine Meet.G000 HOCKEY PLAYED YESTERDAY, Thistless \u2018Gained on Caledonia Last.Night\u2014Yale Said to be Werk in Baseball.An exciting game of hotkey was played yesterday at the Prince Arthur Rink, between the Electrical and Mechanical teams for the class championship of the : final year in Applied Science at McGill.As it is well known (that many of the best exponents of the game are college men, a great crowd of eager spectators filled the rink, many of them being re~ presetnatives of other clubs who came to £et poiïmters un the game.Bessides great interest was \u2018taken in the match by | the Applied Science Professors and the lady friends où the \u2018players.| \u2019 The teams lined up as fouows: Electrical \u2014 Goal, H.M.Jaquays; point.W.Currie; cover point, W.R.Trenholme; forwards, R.O.King (capt.), ¥.Rutherford, W.Cunningham, C.H Wright.\u2019 Mechanicals\u2014Goal, G.A.Walkem; point, L.W.Gill; cover point, F.'T.Kenny, (capt.); forwards, H.Baytield.Æ.R.Clarke, À.E.Smaill, G.S, Buth- erford.: ; Referee\u2014Mr.W.F.Angus.The Electricals won by ascare of 4 to 0,the Mechhnicals being unable to find neither the force necessary to reduce the velocity -of the pucle to zera nor the acceleration required to get it througk the Electrical\u2019s goal.IN DRY GOODS CHAMPIONS FOR 149, ; BROPHY, CAINS & CO.Quite an exeiting hockey match was | played last evening on the Crystal ice | between, teams from Gault, Bros.& Co.and Brophy, Cains & Co., wholesale dry goods establishments.Gault, Bros.& Co.'s team have held the championship | of the dry goods trade at hockey for some years, defeating all comers until last evening, when the team from | Brophy, Cains & Co.proved teo strong for them, winning by a score of 3 goals to 1.The match was from start to finish a hard fought one, the play in the first half being very even, - though Brophy, Cains & Co.'s team secured two goals during the first 20 minutes of play, Billy Dobby taking the lirst game and Wattie Burland securing the second.In the second half Gault Bros.& Co.rushed the puck from the start, and Osler scored a goal, making the score 2 to 1.Ftom the face the puck traveled the length and breadth of the rink numerous times, the players likewise, some of whem were showing signs of fatigue, so much so that Charlie Harris took a rest for five minutes at the solicitation o! the referee, Mr.Macker- row, and just a few miriutes before time he was allowed to reappear, which he did to advantage, securing the puck near centre and carrying it across to Dobby, who shot, and Hutchings, who had been playing a magnilicent game, gave it a side shot, scoring the third game for ; Brophy, Cains & Co.LL.As time was called a minute afterward the teams gave the usual three times three and a tiger, and Brophy, Cains & Co.'s team left the ice with \u2018the coveted title of champions of the dry goods trade for 1893, the season now bg ing at an\u2019 end.No further msaiches can be played this season.The teams were placed as follows: Brophy, Cains & Co.\u2014M.Robertson, goal) Frank H.Rodden, point; C.H.Har ris, cover; W.Dobby, W.Burland, A.Hutchings, Geo.Stephen, forwards.Gault, Bros.& Co.\u2014A.Fenwick, goal; C.Osler, point; W.B.Evans, cover; Herb Christie, C.H.Alves, T.W.Jens king, T.Hunt, forwards.Relerce\u2014Mr.Clar .Mackerrow.THE VICTORIA RIFLES.No! 1 and No.2 Companies of the Victoria Rifles played u fast game of hokey at the Prince Arthur Rink last evening, The result was that No.1 Company came out winner by a score of 5 to 5.The teams were as follows: No.1 Company.\u2014Dobbic, goals Mc Eobie, point; F.McRobie, cover point; Jones, Danford, McMillan; Wynnes, forwards, ; No.2 Company.=Gorman! goal, Remi ington, point; Coolican, cover point; Copying, Ransom, Thayer, Vennor, forwards, C Referee~Mr.L.Belcourt; Umpires; E, E.Belcourt and V7.Simpson; timekeepers,| Messrs, Phillips and McLean.This evening Companies No.4 and No.6 will play at the Victoria Rink, and the winner wiil play off with No.1 Company.OT .GOLF.+ me THPY'RE FLAYIN IT IN FLORIDA, St.Augosting Fla, March 16.\u2014Golf has taken the place of all popular pastimes iw this city this winter, aml while several im tiorestivg contests have taken place sinco the.St.Augustine Golf Club first organized a ydar ago, thd most cxciting one ceenrred Saturday in the contest for the Alexander Britou Coxe Loving Cup, a beautiful piece of workmanslip, valued at $250.It was won hy Charles Yainall; of Germantown, Pain ilte first boub of two out c£ tlirco gamos Trig contest was played on the Feat Marion reservation, which, witly ity fort moat, hilly and chump of trees, affordg am excellent ground for godt.On the now edge of this reservation the club Has a cozy club House of rooms sufficient for receptions, business and dressing room With clothes lockers.THe club bay f0r its president Has munid Pendleton, of Bar Harbor, Me., for merly of Cincinnati; O.; the trcasurer is Cd.John J.Upham, United States Army, retired, and for secretary Mrs.Mason Hurl- burt Mason-Youngy formerly of New York.The day.was well suited for tha game, as the sun wag mostly behing the ckouis.The playars in going thle four rouMls had to walk fully six miles, Som THE WOMAN'S CHAMPIONSHIP.The $1,000 silver cup which has been pre sented by Robert Cox, of Edinburgh, Scot land, for the woman's championship of the United States; has recently been completed So far ag design is concerned, apd will bu ert.rely finfshel within a fow weeks.It will be placed in competition for the first time nexd October on the Morristown Golf Club links, under the auspices of the United States Golf Associaition.This will be one Of the big golf events oË the.yeaï, and will savely bring together all the most expert lady golfers in the country.YACHTING.RACING AT CANNES.Cannes, March 16.\u2014The chief event of the rezatita here to-day were the races for thd challenge cups given by Mr.Ogden Goelct aod Mr.James Gordon Bennett, The first of these cups, for yachts over twenty rat ing, is valued at £320, and ite second cup, for yachts under twenty rating, is valued at £160.The course in cach case was tri- .2.13, and Riplet, 2.233.i times to complete the total distance of 30: miles, In tho race for the larger yachts Ailg4 crossed tho starting lind first with Satonitn and Britannia close behind her.The following was the times ab tre start: Ailsa Li fee SW Te Tem Tae 11.1500 Britannia © www won LL 11.15.20 Satamiba ve 3.ce V2 eve vue Te 11.15.22 After the second round tbe wind dropped, no.| and the race for the big yachis was declared | : off for the day.Aniotiter attempf will be made to sail it ont Wednesday next.In the race for the smaller clasy of yachis, Mr, Oglent Goelet's Samphire won.mrt \u2018 \u2019 ROYAL CANADIAN YACHT CLUF.\u201cToronto, Mar.16.\u2014Prominent members of the RoyaiCanadian Yacht Club, interest¥d | in building the boat t¢f meet Chicapp\u2019s Ven cedor,! met on Saburday night and complet 1 ed tha syndicate.The Toronto boat is now | sure to meet the challenger.The new boat will be built under covery and the design wiil by kept secret until she leavey in June.CURLING.CALEDONIA-THISTLE LAST NIGHT.The playing on the Caledonia and Thistle rinks last night between the twn clubs resulted as follows: Caledonia Ice.Caledonia Thistle J.B.Young! A.McPhee J.Ewan it w.0.H.Dodds G A Cook À 8 White N.Wilson .© WwW.D.Aird \u2014Skip 16 \u2014Skip 13 J.H.Stewart , | W.McArthur C.Morris a > Chas.Chappell ] BR.Fraill Vv John Allan J.PF.Mackie ! W.Lyall .3 \u2014Skip 8 \u2014Skip 19 .Thistle Ice Caledonia Thistle R.Costigan iy Geo.Kearny W.T.McLaren ' G.M.Kinghorn R.J.Tocke Capt.Clift G.W.Sadler : ¢ Rev.Dr.Barclay \u2014Skip 12 \u2014Skip 14 A.D.Mann : : J.L.Harcourt BR.White .H.Y.Joseph \\ W.H.Boon +: J.EB Abbott J.Simpson - : G.Cameron Co \u2014Skip 9 \u2014Skip 16 BASEBALL.THE OTTERS AND STANDARDS.A meeting of the Otter and.Standard baseball clubs was held last evening and after some discussion decided to amalga- \u2018mate under the name of Rlaples.The election of officers for the coming season resulted as follows: President, W.Price; vice-president, .L.\u2018McAdoo: sec.-ireas., L.Baker, No.7 Emily Street; manager, H.Bateman, captain, W.Livingston; dele- { kates to convention, W.Price, W.Brown, W.Livingston.i ir THE YALE TEAM IS WEAR.New - Haven, March 16.\u2014The situation which the Yale baseball team has to face this spring is even worde than that which confronted the football deam last fall.There are mord places to fill and lesy sear goned players to choose from.While Capt.Treadway bas a carfeit of good material from which to sdect his Henley crow, Capt.Smiley must find six players to fill out kis tcam, aid this \u2018tlask is Tenderod the mord difficult owing to the very moderate talent that he Has to pick from.The work of the candidates thus far bag been greatly Wandicapped.They have beck at work for nearly three weeky in the cage, which\u2019 i® g month tater than previous Yale beams.have begun training.No professional goacker will be employed this season, and thus the brunt of the werk of develeping so much new material fially upon Capt.Smiley.The weakness of this sdason's team Hag aroused the gradwates ard sevaral veterans will rdlurn ab intervals to coach the play- ars, oo TURE ANID TRACK.WOODBINE SPRING MEET! (Special to the Ilerald.) Toronto, March 16.=A great intercst is taken among local horsemen in the spring meeting of the Ontario Joikey Ciub at Woodbine, The prospects now are that\u2014the meet will be one of the most successful eyer held.The opening day will be Saturday, May 23, with the Queen\u2019s Plate, as the big drawing card and the meeting will continue through the following week, with the exception of Wednesday, thus giving six days\u2019 racing instead of the customary five.The purses all round will average about $60) each, somewhat of a reduction from previous years.The Jockey Club handicap of $600 is a new race and four sclling events come under the same cate gory.Hurdle races have been omitted altogether, and scveral races, it will be observed, are left open until the jneet- ing.res eine ere pein el] LOCAL HORSE NOTES! The MontfFeal correspondent of Canudian \u2018Spôrtsman says: Trainer \u201cA,\u201d M.Rathbun, who so successfully handied the horses of the Belmont stable last season, will be to tho fore again this summer, and will likely take in the Canadian and New England meetings.Last year Mr.Rathbun drove and gave the following Lorses their marks:.Eliza K, 2.114; Last Request, 2.11#; W.C.B., 2.123; Silver Plate, This summer he will campaign Silver Plate, 2.13; Ina Belle, 2.29%, ete.He would like to add a few others to his string, and any party having a promising trotter or pacer they would like to place in cupable Hands for the season, should write to A.M.Rathbun, 934 Dorchester Street.Mr.A.Laurin, of this city, the owner of Antidote, 2.104, lately secured another good one, having purchased from Mr.J.B.Fauteaux, the bay filly Boadicea : Muscovite, by Muscovite 2.18 the y dam Dalsie, by Steven\u2019s Uwharie, (sire of Flora Bell 2.223, etc.) This one is now in her four year old form and gives every indication of being speedy.She will be bred to Antidote 2.10}.Boadicea Muscovite was brought to Montreal in the first consignment of trotting stock sold here by Mr.Fred Seacord, of Galesburg, Ill, in November, 1893, Mr.S.Arbour, proprietor of Arbour\u2019s Hotel, 119 St.Lawrence Street, has just sold that well known trotting stallion, Gerjeral Banky 2.241, t4 Mr; A.B.Hislop, of St.Laurent, P.Q.General: Banks was got by General Brock 2.29%, (sire of Glenara 2.22%, Fin Fan 2.25%, etc,) dam Minnie Woods, by imported Blenkiron, Prior to last season he was in the stud here for five years, and with only moderate training reduced his mark from 2.292 to 2.244, und that in a hard fought out contest of \u2018six heats at Le- pine Park, last June, General Banks should easily earn a record of 2.18 or better this season.: So ALTONEER TO STAY: On account of urgent requests from many prominent breeders, Mr.John Sheridan has decided to keep Altoncer in this country, instead of shipping him to England, as intended, and we are pleased to announce that he will make the coming season in the vicinity of Toronto.Altoneer, 17493, with a two-year-old race record of 2.24%, is the only Canadian colt of his age to enter the 92.30 list.His breeding is rich in producing blood on both the side of his sire and dam.His sire was Sphinx, 2,234, son of the great Flectioneer, by Hamble- tonian 10, while his dam was Pilotina Wilkes 2.24%, by Filot Wilkes, 2.283, by smigular, and ik Lod fo be cevciod Was g George Wilkes, Altoneer\u2019s breeding is .ond threw.up the sponge.simply superb, combining as it does the | blood of the greatest stars on the American trotting turf.TRE WHEEL.WANDERERS' BICYCLE CLUB.A committee meeting will be held in the club room.on Tuesday evening at 8 p.m., and as there is business of vital importance to be.trapmacted, it is im- | perative that the full committee put in an appearance.Delegates to represent the club at the annual meeting of (the C.W.A.at Torbnto on Good Friday, will probably be chosen.fo : Members will keep Friday night, 27th, open sn as to attend the smoking concert of the Ramblers iim {the St.Charles Club House.Sl \u2018 Thompson is leading in the club euchre - contest, but there are eight others who are right with him.mete: 5 ATHLETICS.PRINCETON ATHLETES FOR ATHENS.Princeton, N.J., March 16.\u2014Complete arrangements have been made by, the Princeton Athletic Association to send a team to represent America in the Olympian games to be kdld in Athens, Greëce, April 6th to April 11th.The failure of other American colleges and athletic clubs to send a team to uphold America\u2019s interests at this, the greatest international carnival of modern times, induced the Princeton management to enter the best of their athletes for the events, ; WIEN RING.WOLCOTT KNOCKS OUT \u201cBRIGHT EYES.\u201d New York, March 6.\u2014At the Eureka Athletic Club, Long Island.City, tonight, Joe Wolcott, the colored wonder.met Cott Collons,of Texas, better kaown as \u201cBright Eyes.\u201d Both men weighed in at 42 pounds.Collins was Knockecd out in the seventh round and Wolcott won in a walk.From the first Wolcott had the best of the battle, althaugh the fight was vigorous throughout.In the seventh round \u201cBright Eyes\u201d was Knocked down repeatedly until his sec- CRICKET.TO INVITE THE ANTIPODEANS.PLiladelp\"ia, Pa, March 16.\u2014At a.mesita ing of the Associated Cricket Clubs of this city held Lerd yesterday it was decided ta open negotiations with the famous Austra- fant cricket {cam, which is visiting England this year, with a view of biinging them to this country for a series of international matches this fall.: CHESS.RETURN CONTEST EXPECTED.I ondon, March 16.\u2014The Times says with reference to the international chess match by cable: \u201cAn early challenge for a return match may be anticipated.The present contest wili do excellent service in caliing pointed attention to the fact that the English players are out of practice.The conditions were too exciting to produce the best play.The principal games were long and faulty.\u201d MISCELLANEOUS.Following the example cf thle sporting editor of the Boston Globe, Pate Murphy has decides to present to his patrons yearly a volume containing the records of all athletes of prominence in the word of sport, Each section will be illustrated by the prepent ment 0b cuts of those prominent in that , branch c sport.In detzil ard comprelent | siveress Murphy's Sporting Almabac will be thle greatest record book yet published.Thi chediles of all importanb sporting events for the seascn 96 will also be published.The first issue will be presented; about May first.Joe Choynski will train in Chicago for bis six-round bout with *Kid\u201d McCoy, which is scheduled for March 21.Steve O'Donnell will probably sail foi England one week from Saturday.He is to box Owen Sullivan before the National Sporting Club.Sullivan is an Australian, apd is sald to Lave championship aspirations.Joa Corbett, brother of \u201cPompadour Jim,\u201d the keavy-waight champion, will be faker south by thle Beltimores and giver a trial.If be turns oat to be a good twiiler be will be signed; if not, his brother Jim will pay his expenses.It is reported that Chariey D'itchell in tends to come to this country next month with a company ofl athletes, of which Paddy Slavin will be the star.Slavin will leds for a match with Fitzsimmons, but might be induced to try on Peter Maller or Joe Chotynski.\u2018 Usd \u2018fhe ankle in pedaling, particularly when climbing hills.The ankle motion 1» Fard to adopt, but when once thie knack is learned it will grcatly reliove the wheciman ascending devalions.Upturned bangle bar algo facilitate the arb.lt is alu a good remedy for developing thie calf of the leg.Cric'et at Harvard receives little e- copragement.The year before last, whey the team was succesiful, playing ali thd club in and about Boston, with few dafeats and winning thle championship of the irber- collegiatd cricket association, the president in tis antivais renort completely igniored thd willow-wielders; Le s,oke of all the other sports of the university except \u2018ricket.Frank Ives, thé billiard player, will arrive in this country within three weeks, He is now in Berlin giving exhibitions, and will go to London before suiling for New York.Garnier, the Frenchman, will get here about the samo time, and arrangements for three .tourmeys\u2014one in Boston, one in New York, and one in! Chicago\u2014in which Ives, Garnier ard Schaefer are entered, will Le eomplet- | HOW TO WIN : BICYCLE RACES.Ride a wheel that wins.A § \u201cJusta Little Better than the Best\u201d À The R.À.McCREADY CO., Ltd.à 149 Yonge Sireet, Toronto, Ont, WOMEN NEARLY SUFFOCATED.A fire which might have heen attended with serious consequences occarred yesterday at the residence où Miss Corbeille) No.478 Lagauchetiere STreet.The refusa between the flooring caught in a blaze, and it pained grognd so rapidly that in a very few -mo ments the house was full of smoke.The firemen had to carry out two of the inmates, who were overcome with thle smoke.The damage will amount to about $200.A Narrow Escape.About helf past three yesterday afternoon four ladies driving past Finlay- son & Grant's warehouse, No.413 St.Paul Street, had a very marrow escape from being crushed th death, Just as they gol abregst of the building an avalanche of spow and ice poured down from the roof.It miused the vehicle by a very close limit and the liorse took fright and ran as far as McGill Street | before it could be caught.+ THE EXHIBITION.An Interesting Discussion Which Took Place Yesterday.A committee of five gentlemen \u201cfor the purpose of drawing wp| @ plan of organization apd estimate of the probable cost?of an exhibition on an exteneive scale im 1897, was tbe result of a two-hours\u2019 meeting in the Mayor\u2019 chamber yesterday afternoon of the sub-.ommitiee of the Citizen\u2019y Com- mi tee.The megting was called for 4 o'clock, and among those present} were: His Worship Mayor Wilson Smith, S.C.Stevenson! F.Xi Perrault, J.Contanit, Speaker Leblanc, Wm.Darlington, B.J.Coghliny W.TT.Cos- tigan,! H.Laporte, Hugh Grabam, \u2018Æ.P.Hannaford, C.J.McCueig, Edgar Judge, Robert Bickerdikey D.R.McCord.The Mayor called the mceting to order) bifetly staing ity object, and asked Mr.Stevenson to read a paper which bad been prepared as a basis for, discussion.After reading letters from Richard White, George Hague, whio were unable to altend, the paper was read.It cxplained the necessity ol the raising of a sum of morey, in the shape of a guarantees fund, and the insde- quacy off the present exhibition buildings.In order to extend these it would bic neces sary to include part of Mount Royal.Great interest would be attracted by inviting the \u2018abbention of ike British Government, as ing the railways to assist, inviting a member off the Royal family, oummuri:ating with tke British Boards of Tradl getting the Dominion o3d Provincial Governments to take the matier up, and in other ways.It would also be advicable to have a.Cana ian delegates to the Corizess 7 of Boards of Trade speak ol the matter at that gathering.: Mr.J.X.Perrault made a lengthy speech, in which he advocated the sppoini- mend of a Royal commission by ihe Gove ernment.Iti vhould.have among ily hond orary members the Puince o# Wales, thi Governor-General and such prominent personages, Such a commission weuld attract notice ard sipport.All the momey to ho raised should corstitute a guarantee Hurd.The cififerent Governments would erect buil\u2019ingr for themselves, and the large omes should come out of ihe guarantee fund.He {thought this should\u2019 amount to $7\u20ac0,000, The Mayor thought the idea was to get up the affair by Montrealers.When key bad plana and a fend they should go to the Government with these and then ask for assistance.Joseph Contant saïd Mr.Perrault\u2019s schems could not be carried out in time fon 1897.A loti of general Ciscussion then took p\u2019ace, in which the goncral feeling appear of tio be that the cxhibition should be got ten up by Mcmitrealers; trat it! should not be too extensive, but should, be a credit to Canadians as businessmen and that a committee to draft suggestions as to its scope, name)! financial arrangements \u2018and ongariz- ation should be appcinted.The result was thati the following gontlemen wema clected a committee for the purpose already indicat ad: E.P.Hanraford, Hon J.-O.Ville neuve, \u2018Hugh Gratamy S: C.Stevenson; C.R.Hosmer.The mot.on was proposed by H.Laporte and seconded by W.T.Cosili- ga.LL Mr.Perrault thought men who had bad some experience in expositions should be on the committee.He referrcdi to ex-Mayor Villeneuve ad a man who Sold sugar and things of that nature, and yet they were putting him on a committee to raise a plan fon a great exhibition.Mr.Laporta objected to iis as an fustolt to one of Montreal\u2019s.best citizens, and il for no other reason, he would refuse to al low @ man who would say such a thing to go ome the committee.The meting then adjourned till Monday nbxti CHEROKEE BILL'S FATE.The Noted Gutlaw to be Banged To-Day, at Fort Smith.Fort Smith, Ark., March 16.\u2014Despat- ches from Washington have settled the fate of Cherokee-Bill, the noted outlaw of the fast receding border.The President\u2019s refusal to interpsse removes Bill's last possible chance, and he wil hang on St.Patrick's Day, March 11.On November 18, 1894, Cherokee Bill ard Verdigris Kid, another citizen of the territory, sacked the town of Lenapah.Indian Territory.Cherokee Bill, during this raid, killed Ernest Melton.Bill wag arrested and locked up at Fort Smith and in due time was convicted and Sentenced to death.While he was confined there he killed a jailor.For this he was also tried and sentenced to death.His lawyer, William M.Cravens, appealed both cases to the United States Supreme Court on December 20 last.The court affirmed the first case, and it is for the crime covered in that cage that Bill is to be hanged.DEUTERONOMY.Very Rev.Dean Carmichael gave a most appreciable discourse last might at the monthly meeting of the Sunday Schocl Association in Synod Hall.The subject wal \u201cDeuteronomy.\u201d The speaker dealt with, the book\u2019s title, per- lod, object, the position of Israel, its authorship, its style and the result of the style.This book was one of the most interesting and also one of the least read in the Bible.It was one which should: be studied by all teachers as [in it was exemplified the personality of Mowek, and showed ample proof of his authorship, and great skill in compilation, being a recapitulation of the laws of Israel.Iti period covered a space of only tive weeks.He concluded by enumerating certain facts which should not ber lost sight of, but always considered, because they might at some of the periods seem to conflict.\u2018 OBITUARY, CHARLES HORATIO GATES.Boston, March 16.\u2014Charles Horatio Gates, widely known years ago as a banker, died at his home in Louisburg Square, this city, to-day, aged eighty years.He was born in Montreal and his father, the late Hen.Horatio Gates, was prominent in Canadian financial and political life.Mr.Gates was a Harvard man, class of \u201985, and until 1861, when he went abroad, was a banker.On his return in 1869 he became professor of modern languages at Brown University.For the past twelve years he had lived here, writing and teaching.In 1885 he prepared the fiftieth memorial for his clags and its sixtieth anniversary last June.He leaves a wife and daughter, Mrs.Henry Sherman Chicago.Insurances Conspiracy Case, Whitby, Ont., March 16.\u2014A very im-, portant case will be tried at the assizes, which opened to-day, in which George E.Alger, J.N.Hortop and N.C.Brown are charged with conspiracy to defraud Companies by misrepresentations as to the state of Mrs.Alger\u2019s health.Dr.Francey made the medical examination, passing her as a sound life, while she was in the last stages of consumption.When the insurance companies disputed the claim, Dr.Francey lied to Detroit, but subsequently returned on a promise of immunity.He will give evidence at the trial.i Our prices throughout for fine custom clothing to order area low as is consistent with good material and workmanship.R \u2018howlings and screechings of wind) Boutelle, of | church that she was innocent.None heeded the Equitable and Home Life Insurance | SCARDO\u2019S SOUL.He was swimmimg, stmggling in \u2018the great, heaving black waters\u2014the roaring, frightful waters that fell and dashed, and dashed and hurtled\u2014the shaking, mighty Was ters that smote kim down, that bore him down, down ; that flung him up and caught him ar and hurled and dasbed him about\u2014 the waters, the roaring, consulsing waters.There was blackness and thunders and and piercing flashes of lightnirg that revealed | the tear and fury of the wide ocean\u2014that revealed the head of Scardo as he fought mightily and desperately \u2014that revealed a face\u2014the face of a man writhing and whirl ing\u2014a strange! cruel face.Scardo.had been pushed from off the topsail yard by Pedro as the ship Was runring before the storm.4 Suddenly a light was shining through tha darkness.What could it mean?It could not bé a light from the ship, for by this thm slide Was swept far away.The light approached him.How calmly it shone across the rive and tear of the waters.Ha! It was a woman surrounded as if with a great halo.It was his mother.Ste was counting her beads ard æceping in a little cottage by the sea shore.Poor mc- thier, she wept because her boy, Scardo had becomo a pirate on {he Spanish Main.bim whon he wag a hardy, innocent fisher- mar, He had loved ker, and he loved her still, but always the demon of fight was within him.Even when he held her in his aums lie was restless and wishing for some other \u2018fat, Now she seemed sad] and she saw her but dimly.Why was this?Was aught wrong with her?There was Antonic, whom be had stab- ed to the death for casting insulting glances at bis Amina, He had come to laugh at Scardo.And sceme followed sceme, Scenes of re pine and blood.Here was the old man, Here was the beautiful French pif, Ha! Hg was beginning to tire.The end was coming.The blak! thunderous waves wee beating Lim down.There was Amina again, Still she look- od sad.And lol she beckoned to him, she wad calling to Hin.Poor Amina! Ob, that he could go to her! He would! He could?Hal\u2014\u2014 \u2018Here was a new sensation, a strange wild power\u2014he was exalted; he could grasp tho elements in his hand, he defied the thun- dds, he wad as a ged.Now\u2014\u2014 S.arlo arose.Te had been dreaming.How real it bad been.He thought be was fighting for bis life in a mid-ocean storm How strange.An instant ago he conld have sword thatbe was dro.ning amid the blac-ness of night, But now he was here, where the sun was touching cverything withi its magio light.Birds were singing.Yes, he had been sies>iz on th.Leach hex, and had dreamed that for four years he bad sailgd a9 a pirate over the Spanish Maun, And there bad been many dreams in one long dream.Scenes of blood, of rapine.Blak) horrible scenes.And how cruel ha had been.Aye, he was tbe cruw:l- lest of ths pirates.And at last Pedro bad pushed him from off the yard, and as he wad fightirg in the water be awoke and found himself boro on the Mediterranean shore.Ho was but two leagwes from his native village: Yonder was th: point.How the blue waves danced and sparkled.Oh it was fine to bz rid of the terrible phantagms\u2014the trocps of slaying ghosts.Aye, it was fine.But\u2014but\u2014 But the slaying of Antonio.dream?No, it was no dream.Truly he had slain bim.No, he had not slain him.But bad he?! Hg knew net, he cculd not tell.He felt strange.Might it be after all but 5a dream?Was all his iife before that but a dream?Was Amina but a dream: Was he dreaming now?No, he was awake.Whit should he do?Ah, be had it.He would walk on to the village; ard then he would know, Let the soldiers take him if he bad killed Antonio.And now be thought of Amina, whom he loved\u2014who loved him.Perhaps this killing of Antorio was but a raving fancy after all.A delicious languor was upon him.All was bright and beautiful.How the fragrance of tha flowers fille] the air.He in- kaled it as eagerly as if he had been to sea for months.Strange! He felt ag light ad joyous as yonder singing lark.His feet hardly seemed to Was that a touch the earth, He looked back! What was this ?Horror! There were no footprints left upon the sand as he trod along.What jugelery was this?What magic?Why were there no footprints?Ah, it was but a raving fancy of his\u2014like to the other fancies.How strange he felt, though, withal, so joycusly.In the distance he saw the miller\u2019s cart.That wae Jacopo who was driving.Ca- ramba! He was up with it even as be saw it.What was this agein\u2019 Bub he could not think.He spoke loudly to Jacopo, but Jacopo looked him straight in the eyes, as if ho did not see him\u2014but the horses he was driving shivered as in terror.So Ja.copo.bad recognized him not, because of the killirg of Antonio.But did he kill Antonio?He did! ave, be did! No, he did not.But, even so, why did Jacopo slight him?Let him beware.And on, on, and here was Pigistrillo, and here was Liucetita looking handsomer than ever, but they heeded him mob as he spoke tio them, but locked him straight in the eyes as if they saw him not.And Lere was coming Tamaso, of the Guard.Now be would knows whether or not the killing of Antonio was a fancy.Maria be praised! It was a fancy after all, for Tomaso laid noti his hand upon his shoulder to arrest kim, Ho passcd him with not a word.He might have spoken, though, Often had they druni together.And mow ha was in the streets of the village, and still none noticed him.Stiramge! What! had hé done?If he bad not killed Antonio, what kad he done?Here wag the church.Into it crowds were going.The organ was pealing forth solemn, mournful sounds.Now he was in it and sbanding in the middle ajsle, Stil} ncne noticed him.But he cared not.Plague take them alll But strangd how old their flaces looked since yesterday; Yesterday he had killed Antonio and fled and\u2014bub why think of it?Hd bad not killgd kim at all.He bad\u2014Oh; he was going mad.What{ was the ceremony going on in the church.Ah! how stupid of him noti to know.The monks were making a witch recant ore she was taken to be burneï at the stake.She was \u2018young, and a little child clung to her and wept.Oh! Fiends of hell! It wad Aminal.I$ was his loved cme.He vushed up avd called out to the whole bim.Then he struck the monk in the face, | who wad saying in a slow voice that this Amina concocted witchery with her para- mony, Scardo, while he was away pirating on tha Spanish Main, And the monk heeded pot the hlow, nay, maved nor flinched not, And Scardo tried to seize his loved \u2018one; and suddenly there came upon him a great rushing darkness.Scardo was still fighting in tha midst of the tearing blackness, For a while his senses had left Fim.Now bis mind was clear.He was growing weak and faint, but still be was fighting.The lightning was flashing over him the lizht of death.The thunclers wdre roaring ard crashing.The great black waves were hurling him down-= down.C.P.R.DIRECTORS MEET.A meeting of the C.P.R.directors was called this afternoon, to discuss and G.Brown & Co., cor.Bleur and |revise the annual statement for official Dorchester Street s.publication, = re And now had comd Amina, who hadi loved | Th at Hat GO yours is not the style.Call in on us, and see the newest in all shapes, English and American.HASLEY BROS., \u20182252 St.Catherine Street.Makes the best kitchen utensils, them at our store.L.J.A.Surveyer.1tis lighter stronger and wears 6 St.Lawrence Main longer than any other metal, See $ ® Take the lead in Canada, and price is just right.|A.RAMSAY & SON, MONTREAL, HERALL Good Reading at Less Than Cost.For Herald Readers Only.Certificate and five cents.TITLE, AUTHOR, 5 Beaton's Bargain, - Mrs.Alexander 20 Lorimier and Wife, - - Margaret Lee 22 Moonshine, A Story of the Reconstruction Period, 25 Our Roman Palace.or Hildi and I, 30 The George-Hewitt Campaign, 32 The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy 33 The Merry Men, - - - ee 35 Twilight Club Tracts, or Questions of the Hour, - - - Chas.T.Wingate 36 Victory Deane, - - Cecil Griffith 272 An American Journey, - Edward Eveling 320 New Republic, - -.- 21 .392 The Co-averative Commonwealth, Lawrence Gronlund 521 Somebody\u2019s Story, - 653 Pillone, =~ « = = ~The Herald has a small supply of the books listed below, which are bound in paper covers, and were published at from 10 to 40 cents each.They- will be distributed to readers for one Book Subscribers wishing to have their books sent by mail require to send two cents additional for postage.Cut out and preserve this list, as it will not be published exe cept at intervals while the books last.Order by number in every case, and don\u2019t fail to send Certidl- cate, whieh will be found in another place in the paper.TITLE.UTHOR.404 Tax the Area.509 Going to Maynooth 512 Lady Valworth\u2019s Diamonds, The Duchess 514 Little Tu Penny, - 8.Baring-Gould 517 Neal Malone and Tubber Berg, arleton 519 Propert Arms in Land, Passage at etweun the Duke of Argyle and Henry George.529 The Prince of a Hundred Soups, Vernon Lee 536 Stoneheart, - - - Gustave Amiard 540 The Red Lottery Ticket, F.Du Boisgobey 23 The Haunted Chamber = The Duchess i D.G.Hubbard The Montreal Herald Co., 603 Craig Street, Montreal.BREVITIES.« Yesterday afternoon\u2019s session of the Queen\u2019s Bench was occupied in the hearing of the case of Joseph Fournier, charged with indecent assault.The case will be concluded to-day.The Beaver Line steamship Lake Huron passed Browhead Monday evening, and is due in Liverpool about midnight.PERSONALS, Hon.L.O.Taillon, Quebec, is at the Hall., \u2018 J.BE.Walsh, of C.A.R., Ottawa, is in town.J.Macpherson, Winnipeg, is at Queen's.Mrs.T.C.Keefer, Ottawa, is at the Windsor.Mr.J.G, Forbes, Toronto, is a guest at the Balmpral.Hon.W.B.Ives and Sir Adolphe Caron are at the Windsor.Lieut-Col.A H.Gilmour, was at the Hall yesterdays Prentiss C.Dodge, special agent U.S.Treasury Department, is at the Queen's.I.W.Cummings, travelling passenger agent C.V.R., St.Albans, accompanied by Mrs.Cummings, are at the Windsor.\u2018Latest arrivals at the Richelieu Hotel include H.Baker, New York; J.Leduc, Buckingham;, A.F.McMillan, Rossland, B.C.Sub-Chief Beckingham, of the Montreal Fire Brigade, who has been seriously ill, has sufficiently recovered to report for duty.A Wetherall Draper, private secretary to Lucius Tuttle, president of the B.& M.Ry., Boston, accompanied by Mrs.Draper, are at the Windsor.They are on their wedding trip.! D.A.Budge, Y.M.C.A.secretary of this city, left last evening to attend the sad duty of his mother\u2019s funeral.His mother was the widow of the late Alex.Budge, of Newmarket, Ont., and her body was taken west last evening by G.T.R.\u2018About fifty members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Portland, Me., arrived in town last evening via G:T.R.to spend St.Patricks day in Montreal.They were met by about 250 of their friends of this city and cordially welcomed.the Stanbridge, The most homelike, comIortable and best appointed hotel in Montreal is the Heal Victoria, Jacques Cartier Square.Rates right.Thos.The Mysterious Card Unveiled.Beaten Traveller.Fveryboiy who bas read The Mysterious Card,\u201d the startling tale which Has arcused more intense interest and curiosity than anytiing published for a Tong time, will be glad to learn that a sequel to this astounds.ing story will shortly be published in The Black Cai.«The Mysterious Card Unveiled,\u201d which is the title of thie coming story, wilh doubtless awaken still deepér interest and wider Cuisine unexcelled- (April) iseuo of the Black Cat, by the way; contains six as clever and fascinating stories a¥ one is likely to find anywbere, and when it is considered \u2018that it is sold 'atmm when it is considered that it is sold ait five cents! it at once becomes the marvel of the magazine world.Carlisle for President, ~.Washington, March 16.\u2014Secretary Car- lisle is a candidate for the Presidential nomination at Chicago, and a public announcement to that effect will soon be made by one of the secretary\u2019s close friends in the Senate, It is said he will have Cleveland\u2019s support on a \u201csound money\u2019 platform.Stirred Up.\u201d \u201cOur whole neighborhood has been stirred up,\u2019\u2019 said the regular reader.The editor of the country weekly seized his pen.\u201cTell me all about it,\u2019\u2019 he said.\u201cWhat we want is the news.What stirred it up?\u201d \u201cPlowing,\u2019\u2019 said the farmer.\u2014Pear- son\u2019s Weekly.= A Wholesome Tonic : Horsford\u2019s Acid Phosphate : Strengthens the brain and nerves, k ; Pick-Me-Up-s.{ matter.Why Does _ Your Head Ache?Don't want to tell Well, never mind For sale at all drug stores.Price 10c.per bottle BICYCLING ENAMELLING.Bicycles Enamelled just like New in Black or Colors; 6 coats put on.TERMS MODERATE, MOUNTAIN CITY CYCLE CO, Tel.3012.2361 St.Catherine St.Why Be Sick 5% Cad WHEN a trifle will buy the greatest healing foe vention of the day?Dr.Sanden's Electric Belt is a complete body battery for self-treatment.and guarantees, or money refuuded, it will CURE WITHOUT MEDICINE Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Lame Back, Kidney and Liver Camplaints, Nervous Debility, Weakness.Losses, Drains, and all effects of early indiscretion or excess.To weak men it is the greatest possible boon, as a mild, soothing, electrio gurrent is applied direct to the nerve centers, and improvements are felt from the first hour.GET THE BOOK FREE.A pocket edition of the celebrated electro-medical work, \u2018\u2019Three Classes of Men,\u201d illustrated, is sent free, sealed, by mail, upon application.Every young, middle-aged or old man suffering from the slightest weakness should read it.It will point out an easy, sure and speedy way to regain strength it od The current | and health, when everything else has failed.Address discussion than ite predecessor.The current | DR, SANDEN, 826 Broadway, New York.\u2014\u2014\u2014 ard Playing a Bold Game, Windsor; Ont.; March 16.\u2014The Canad dian Independence party is playing a bold game by using Her Majesty's mails to distribute circulars which practically} state that Great Britain i$ robbing Canada through the medium of the Cana dian Government.This is in direct violation of the law and Government detectives have been set to work upon the The documents sent out bear no signature and are dated Toronto, where they are mailed, The reason assigned here for flooding Canada With such literature is the Leliel that which ever party is defeated at the next gen eral elections is sure to declare itself for the Independence of Canada.eee Don\u2019t be Imposed Upon i when you ask for Dr.Pierce's Golder e- dical Discovery.Go to a reliable dealer, He will sell you what you want.The othe 3 who have something else to urge upon 30 in its place are thinking of the ex ra profit they'll make.These things pay them better, but they don't care & you.\u2026\u2026 \u201ciust as these substitutes is \u2018\u2018jus queue of the \u2018Discovery.That is the only blood cleanser, flesh builder Sod strength restorer so far reaching an So unfailing in its effects that it can be gu r anteed.In the most stubborn skin, scalp or scrofulous affections, or in every disease that\u2019s caused by & torpid liver or imme pure blood\u2014it effects perfect and per manent cures.B=] Obed | 1 at ENN TEL (S58 | Zz \u2018« PE MONTREAL DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1896.ll Coffee Universally accepted as the Leading Fine Coffee of the World, The only Coffee served at the WORLD'S FAIR.CHASE & SANBORN, dill ASTON.MONTREAL.CHICAGO, What is the Y.W_.C A, \u201c School of Cookery \u201d Doi ng Per.MONDAY, 2.30 p.m., Demonstration Advanced Cookery.eee > 8 p.m, Demonstration Plain Cookery.> 8 p.m., Classes St.Schoolroom, collection.TUESDAY, 10 a.m., Practice Household Cookery.» 8p.m., Practice Invalid Cook- CAES WEDNESDAY, 10 a.m., Practice House- old Cookery.,.Cee ve 8 p.m., Cooks\u2019 Advance Class.THURSDAY, 10 a.m.Practice High Class Cookery.70c » 4 p.m., Demonstration School Girls\u2019 Class, ._ 10e \u201d 7.30 p.m., Class at Montreal General Hospital.\u2014_ FRIDAY\u2014Private lessons may b ranged for per hour.$1.00 , 8 p.m., Practice Plain Cook- OT rer ee 10c i.8 p.m., Classes in Point St, Charles, collection.- \u2014 SATURDAY, 9a.m.McGill Model School 2432 St.Catherine Street.DON\u2019T GET BALD! IT MAKES YOU LOOK OLD.The Empress Hair Grower Stops the Hair from Falling Out.Promotes the growth of the hair.A delightful Hair Dressing for both Ladies a Gentlemen.A sure cure for Dandruff, PREPARED BY C.J.COVERNTON & CO, Cor.of Rleury and Deorchesteyx Sits, 25c RARE 10c 50c 25c 50c 70e COMPLEXION, SKIN and SCALP Discases a Specialty.DR.H.J.BRODEUR, Member of the Dermatological Society OF PARIS.385 St.Denis Street, 11 a.m.to 4 p.m., 6.30 30 8 p.m.PATENTS.EN 5 Nae Promptly d.Trade-Marks, Copyright and Labels registered.We report whether patent can be secured or not, free of -charge.Our fee not due until patent is allowed.Write for ¢¢ Ine ventors Guide \u2019\u2019 and \u201c What profitable to invent,\u201d \"Free, MARION & LABERGE, Engineers & Experts, 185 St.James St.MONTREAL, \\ Cl ALL FET ERSTONHAUGH& Co Patent Barristers, Electrical and Mechanical Experts and Rraughtsmen Special attention to clients in Montreal and vicinity.Head Office: Canadiam Bank of Com- merece Bldg, Toronto.PUPILS WANTED.OMPETENT GENTLEMAN TEACHER, will give piano lessons in evenings at 25 certs each.Address Music, Her- .60 HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS, MONTREAL.WAVERLEY HOUSE, 742 LAGAUCHE- tiere Street, Wm.Bogie, proprietor.Best aecommodation for transient guests; also table board.of B CARD \u2014 ACCOMMODATION FOR A \"few more boarders; excellent menu, goed attendance: terms moderate.St.Lawrence Hotel, Theo.Schwarz, manager, 86 St Lawrence Street.ee ELSES EE OTEL REINDEAU-\u201458-60 JACQUES Cartier Square; the cheapest first- class hotel in the City of Montreal.Jos.eindeau, Proprietor.tf DENTISTS.\u2014 JROSTON DENTAL PARLORS, 1856 NOTRE Dame Street.Beautiful set of teeth for \u2018Ten Dollars.Fit and quality guaranteed, Open evenings 18 DE YOUNG, SURGEON-DENTIST, tt 169{ Notre Dame Street, Tel.2515 ENGRAVING & ILLUMINATING, ATLAS ENGRAVING CO., tf 214 St.James Street es SAFES AND OFFICE SUNDRIES FOR : SALE, (G°OLDIE AND McCULLOCH'S FIRE and Burglar proof safes and vault doors, Several good second hand safes on hand.Safes Jioved and repaired.TF.M.Sullivan, 308 St, Mmes Street.Telephone 2107.CALES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION & store trucks, alarm money tills from $2 up cales repaired.F.M, Sullivan, 308 St.James Tel.2107.t reet.\u2014\u2014\u2014 BUSINESS PERSONALS.Ny FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES CONSULT JOHN LIVINGSTON E, te 180 St Jemes Street.FOR SALE.One Cent an Word.rm For SALE \u2014 FOR THE MILLION~ kindling, $2; cut maple, $2.50; tamare &c blocks, $1.75; mill blocks, $1.60 per load, delivered \u2018anywhere in the city, J.C.Maca fiarmid, Richmond Square, Bell Tel.ES FOR SALE\u2014COMMON SENSE ROACH, t bed bug and rat exterminator, in {sor 25¢, 50c and $1.Will return money oI does not clean your house.71 Main Btreet, 8 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 JOP SALE_GABLER SQUARE PIANO a With carved legs, 7 octaves; in first sep condition; cost\u2019 originally $375; will pau for $85 cash.Apply to H.W.G., Box » Herald Office.17 \u2014 FOR SALE.Eest 58 per cent.Soda Ash.- .60 per cent, Caustic Soda \u201c0 per cent, Caustic Sodn.China Clay, ete, etc.HENRY DOBELL & CO.| range of price.hooks must be provided for the china tee What Can be Prettier in a Daintily © Decorated Chamber Than a Richly Braped Bressing Table ?Every \u201clady in the land\u201d is fond of dainty and artistic equipments, not only for Ler personal ang home adornment, bub in thie Li titles EVEry-Gay appointments of Het: dressing table as well, and that this should be is but the evidence of a refined and cultivated nature.What could be prettier in a daintily dec.| orated cEmaber than the richly draped ktoïleb table with its Kitter and spalkle cf diver and crystal appciniments\u2014ity air of refinement and luxury so dear to the heart of every true woman ?THat daintiness and refinement may be expressed in the simple every-day appoint ments of a modest Louse is unquestionably true.À little time and judgment spent in seldetirig the necessary fibtings of the tois let takla of the plaiven sort will reward the buyer to the fulest extent, as in these grades there iy a great variety and wide To be sure, the glass need not be cut crystal, nor\u2019 the finish solid silver, but pres sed glass comes in great variety of pretty and\u2019 usefol forms, and aluminum has , thie brilliancy of silver, and redlds but little cave to be kept bright and attractive, As a basis for the toilet table, on which to display these dainty appointments, an average sized kitchen table may be used.The unvarnishod sory wifl cost about $1.25.We will simply offer a few suggestions as a batis on which; to work, Screw securely.to the back of the table a pine board about four inches wide and two feet or two feet six inches high; at the top of this fasten a cross piece one foct long and about one and a half inches wide; on this tack the muslin in pleats, perfectly flap and spredding out wider at the Lotvom, to sach extreme end of the table-back, extend ing down in fan shape.This will gve a backgrounl to add overdrapery and flounc:s ab discrelion, In the centre of thisy at a convenient height, hang a full-sized mirror, the frame of which may be covered with plush of w dainty color.Of course the body of the table should be covered with flomnced lace to the floor, and the table top itself covered with a plush mat of the same dainty color as the frame.This should exactly cover tha top, and be edged with.a neat colored cord binding, with tassels to match at the corners, or g full lace flounce, finished atl the corners with bright ribbons.Ribbons of the same color skould' bold in place the over-drapcry of the upper part, as the taste of the fair owner shall dictate.These simple Suggestions, and a fair amount of good taste ang skill in arranging should offer opportunity for very pleasing results, and, when all is artistically completed, the dainty appointments of the toilet artistically and neatly arranged in their places, \"my lady\u201d has something that has cosh her but a comparatively small amount of mons dy, and her reward for the time and; ingenus ity expended will be derived from the satisfaction of possession.THE MODEL PANTRY.Should Have a Bright Sunny window \u2014 Be Swept and Dusted Daily, and Dont Spare Yoap and Soda On Ft.How seldom, alas! thoroughly well appointed pantry.A model pantry should be outside the kitchen, if possible opening out of the bassage that leads to the nall from the cookery regions.If, however, #pace does not allow, it here, it should lead out of the back of the hall, in a quiet corner, out of sight.It should have a bright, sunny window, with bars outside to keep all safe within.\u2018The floors looks best either entirely covered with linoleum or stained, a dark color.The sink must be of a proper height, that washing up at it can be done without injury to the maid.It should be well scrubbed out after every time of using, and sanitary powder dusted down the plug-hole several times a week.Soda and boiling water must be poured down once a \u2018week to dissolve any grease that may have formed in the pipe.Do not spare soap or soda in the pantry.Have an abundant supply of both, and see that they are well used.A constant supply of wash cloths must be given out, and a long-handled mop provided for washing the silver and glass with.Of towels there should be an ample store, and separate ones should be kept for the glass and silver.I know the domestic mind does not often see the necessity for such care, but if you impress on your maid what you like done, and then see that it is carried out, you will not have much trouble.After the washing up, the towels must be hung where they will dry quickest, and so bé ready for use again.CleAn ones should constantly be given out, and the dirty ones well washed once ar twice a week by the maid herself.The knives must have a separate basket to themselves, and in it be carried to and from the knife house to be cleaned.Fresh paper should be put daily at the bottom, ag it must alsa be in the basket or double tray that is used to bring the dirty knives and forks from the dining room, and once a week they must be well cleaned and scrubbed.Abundant room in cupboards and on do we see a and roomy and glass.The extra crockery frat is put away must be kept separate in a locked cupboard, or breakages may be replaced from this store, and we will be unable to keep an account of it.There must be separate places for china, glass, metalware, etc., and everything must be kept in perfect order.Hot and cold water must be laid on, and where possible a strong flap table must, be provided and a chair, so\u2018that the silver can be cleaned, in comfort and the maid have a place to work at if necessary.The pantry must be swept and dusted daily, and have a thorough cleaning once a week.you?\u201d rer \u201cHive.\u201d AN FASY SHIRKING, \u2018Are you the oldest?\" : Tt id a fact patent and common that \u201cYes.\u201d often: very fond and attentive parents of young children develop into very cold and unsympathetic companions to grown sons anfl daughters.They romp ed with and fondled their babies, but have neither heart nor interest.for the grown-up-babies\u2019 aims and pursuits, As the child grows older, and his phy - sical wants have been fully met, and his physical nature matured, the parent\u2019s gense of responsibility gradually ceases.He feels no longer accountable for this man\u2019s or woman\u2019s deeds or misdeeds, and settles into a selfish disregard of what he cannot help.It is an easy way of shirking responsibility.It is seen too often to be regarded as unusual.Yet it is at this age that young eo ic need friends, ¢onfidants, and acvis as quite 28 lich ag when they, fers.y ff.D, 2H 3e : M.~~ dm Xe age away.I am surprised.\u2019\u2019\u2014Dorfbar- bier.ness, who was an ardent admirer of Ire- party by saying: woman.\u2019 Erin, who happened to be present, | \u2018thousands would back me in saying that you were raeaut for an Irish man.\u2019 \u2014Strand Magazine.| Can = CREF D Ji y ro bs - CHD SEPM Nes younger.1f they do not find sympathizing hearts at home, they will go somewhere else to find them, Tle questions that are propounded, the \u2018problems that are poured into the mail and into the sympathies of public men and women editors, and every ong who has the slightest claim to notice, attest this fact.The child you think thoughtless or cold questions and studies out many matters in his mind; When he comes to that point that he needs a listener or an adviser, he goes to someone\u2014not you.By some heaven-sent chance he may speak to \u201csoma one\u201d who will point out the up road, and\u201dshow him how to start there.But it may not be so.and no parent with any feeling of responsibility at all can afford to take %he chances.Parents repel confidence in many ways \u2014by laziness; by a feeling of inability to put a right view of life into languagd which a young person can grasp; by shrinking from tld unpleasantness of unaccustomed: topics, accompanied by an easy but futile hope that instinct, or something else, will teach the young man or woman what hy or she needs to know.Unfortunately, however, instinct and chance are not the best guides for young people at critical periods of their lives.The age at whick we make our most glaring and far-reaching mistakes is the ignorant age.And the parent who sends out young sons and daughters into the (world as lamb4 in the midst of wolves, without giving them the benefit of the experience his own mistakes ana trials have taught him, must feel self-condemned when the lambs come home shorn, when the Young men and women spend years of struggle and pain retrieving ithe blunders from which a little more candor and confidence might have saved them.We must all live better and learn to live higher becaure of our mistakes, yet the wish to save our children from the same eriors we made ourselves is a legitimate one.At least it seems inconsistent that the mother wio wraps her baby tenderly from the slightestr breeze should send the same baby, a few years later, out into the evils of the world with no knowledge for its protection other than\u2019 it may get from instinct ang from chance! \u201c NOT THE ENEMY'S CAMPFIRES.7 The Mistake of a Recruit Whose Imagination Was Stimulated.At the beginning of the war there were a lot of \u2018\u2018raw\u2019\u2019 soldiers, who, thongh ardent fellows and.good fighters, were not up to the West Point standard on military matters.At War- renton, Va., 029 of the new companies happened to be stationed early in the conflict, and many were the lessons that had to be learned by the earnest but ignorant southerners, who had but a slight idea of the rigid rules of warlike discipline.But on the whole they did well.It was one balmy September evening, just that time of the year when the cool breeze is laden with the rich odors of - the dying leaves and full of an exhilarating crispiness that seems to fill one\u2019s blood with dreams of love and happiness.The moon was just peeping from behind a bank of clouds resting on the crests of the Blue Ridge, and the line of light crept down the sides and crawil- ed across the fields of waving corn and the meadows full of chirping insects.About in the field were scattered the white tents of the Confederates, and beneath them the tired men were deep in slumber.One of the most ignorant men had been put out as a picket, and for hours he trod his beat, watching with eager eye the lights from the distant farin- houses, lest some fire of an enemy\u2019s camp break out into the gloom.The air was warm and fragrant, and the soldier\u2019s mind was full of the romance of the situation.Presently the moon sank behind the dark billows of the cloud bank and the world was wrapped in silence and darkness.But in each bush there sparkled a glowworm, and about in the air circulated some of the bright insects known as \u2018\u2018lightning bugs,\u201d\u2019 whose tiny tails are seemingly pointed with fire.Now the sentry sudddenly became alarmed and gave the signal, and the camp was soon in turmoil.The men, hastily awakened from their sleep, began to saddle up, and were full of delight at the thought of meeting the enemy, whose campfires, so the sentinel said, had just gleamed out from a distant hill.The men were ranged up to begin their march, the colonel exhorted them that this was the \u2018\u2018time to win their spurs, \u2019\u2019 and all was excitement, when the sentinel crept up to the colonel \u2018\u2018Colonel,\u201d\u2019 said the fellow in a discomfited voice, \u201cI am mighty sorry, but I have made a mistake\u2014there is no campfire of the enemy\u2014it\u2019s a lightning bug\u2014you see, l am a bit nearsighted.\u2019 And the man crept back to hide under f the flap of his desolate tent, while the disgruntled men took themselves again to slumber.\u2014Philadelphia Times.What\"Cross Examination Can Do, Magistrate\u2014Y our name?Bashtul Maiden\u2014Anna Lang, \u2018\u2018Religion?\u201d\u2019 \u2018\u2018 Protestant.\u2019 es Age ?\u2019 , No answer.\u2018\u2018When were your parents married?\u201d \u201cIn 18683.\u201d \u2018When was the first christening?\u2019 \u201cIn 1864.\u201d \u2018\u2018How many brothers and sisters have gi \u2018\u2018Then you are 81 years of age.\u201d \u201cYes.(Sotto voce) I have given my mean What She Was Meant For, A lady of great beauty and attractive- land, once crowned her praise of it at a \u201cI think I was meant for an Irish \u2018\u2018Madam,\u2019 rejoined a witty son of The very best way to know whether \u201cSalada\u201d Ceylon Tea is as good as is claimed is to try it_yourself, only be careful to get 1 CEYLON TEX and not be bluffed into taking something styled \u2018Just as good.\u201d LEAD PACKETS ONLY, BLACK AND MIXED.ALL GROCERS.OF THE RAIN, There is no need now to get wet through from shoulder to heels, and have a ruined costume.BY PROUFED FIBRE CHAMOIS - is absolutely waterproof, and will make your garments perfectly impenetrable to any amount of moisture.Itisas durable, stiff and soft in finish as the plain line : sells for the same price, 35c per yard, has no harsh feeling or unpleasant odor\u2014and will never let the wet go through it, Don\u2019t waste money on imitations.Find the NEW STAR LABEL on each yard, A Mongolian Chesterfield.Chinese editors are nothing if they are not) polite, and their style of \u201cdeclining with thanks\u201d renders rejection at their hands more flattering than acceptance would be \u2018from an English editor: Tone is a specimen letter sent by a Chinese cditor to a would- be contributor, whose marmusciipt he found it npecessary to return: CIlkcstiicus bree thier of the sun and moor) behold thy ser vant prostrate befcre {by feet, I kowtow to thse and bog tab off thy gracicusness thou mayst gnant that T may speak and live.Thy honored mafuseript las deigned) to cast thy light of its aveust countenaëke upon us.With\u2019 raptures we have perused it.By the bones of my ancestors, never have I encountered such wit, such pathos, such lofty ibought With fear and trembling I raturm the writing.Were I to publish the treasures you sent me, the emperor would order that it should ba made the standard, and that nore be published except such as equalled it.Knowing literature a: I do, and that it would be impossible in ten thousand years to equal what yor have done, 1 werd your wilting back.Ten thou sand times I cravd your: pardon.Behold, my bead is aff your fret.Do wkati you will.Your servant's servant, The Ed.tor.\u2019?HI Oncei you bave tried it you will buy no ofller syrops, \u2019duse it will stop your ccagh! quickly and surely, and that\u2019s all that's wanted.Dr.Laviolette's Syrup of Tar 25 cents a bottle.Six doses a cure.All druggists.Taking Impressions of Planis, The following simple method of taking impressions of plants is due to M.Ber- tot of the French Academy of Sciences.A sheet of paper is first lightly oiled on one side, and then foldad in four, so that the oil may filter through the pores, any the plant may not come into direct contact with the liquid.The plant is placed between the leaves of the second folding, and in this position is pressed; through other paper, ail over with the hand, so as to cause a small quantity of oil to adhere to the surface.Then it is taken out and placed carefully upon while paper, another sheet is placed above (as two impressions can be taken out at once), and the plant is pressed ag before.Upon now removing it, an invisible image remains on the paper.Over this is sprinkled powdered black leac, which causes the image to appear.With an assortinent of pigments, the natural colors of plants may be reproduced.To obtain fixity, resin is mixed with the color in small quantity.The impression becomes fixed when it ig exposed 10 a heat sufficient to melt the resin.\u2014 Public Opinion.The Enemy and Disturher of Thousands, YOUNG AND OLD ITS VICTIMS Paine\u2019s Celery Compound Releases All From Its Bondages.MR.GARRETT IS MADE A NEW MAN A well-known writer declares that dyis- bepsia is a \u201chome fiend.\u201d It is truly & cruel and torturing monster, and makes its slaves miserable specimens of breathing humanity.This enemy of thousands is effectually conquered by the mighty pewer and gentle virtues of Paine\u2019s Celery Compound, and the victims are released forever from the awful tormentor.: This is, perhaps.the worst season of the year for the victims of dyspepsia, indigestion and stomach troubles.The great merve system requires strengthening ; the blood, now charged with impurities, may be made pure, so that it will course healthily and in abundance ; the stomach, weak and unreliable, must be toned up.Palne\u2019s Celery Compound will accomplish all these grand objects for the dyspeptic, and fit him for the proper performing.of all of life\u2019s \u2018uties.Mi.Joseph Garret, of Garreton, Ont., writes thus: \u201cI was laid up for months, and 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MAIL.DAILY HERALD.ne V eae so.crseceisnicsnsess.$3.00 Sim MED.co 0 nn 0u0000 so.n.\u2026.1.60 Tisree MEOntiss.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.83 One Month.versessesssesercsase 30 WEEKLY HFRALD.Ome Year.coveeeee cedvssese torre a0 Bix Mouths.Three MontDä.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.13 DELIVERED IN CITY.2; a+uvvseovecepiccc0.125 = DAILY HERALD.(Morning Edition Only).OD2 Tenr.coreerercrersnones w.£3.50 Six Manséhis.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.muscu 2.00 Three Monihs .c.00, re.1.00 One Montih.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.000 \u2026\u2026.\u2026.385 CASH IN ADVANCE.MONTREAL.MARCH 17.A SULTANS WRETCHED LIFE.Of all the uneasy heads that wear erowns, that of the Sultan of Turkey must surely be the uneagiest.Owing to the strict censorship which is kept over the Turkish press little iis learned inthe outside world of the progress being made by the Turkish reformers, who go under the name of the \u2018Young Turkey\u201d party.Constantinople is a very hot-bed of intrigue and af no time mould it come as & surprise if the whole Turkish govern- \u2018ment were upset.How keenly the lCom- mander of the Faithful appreciates the position of affairs, is to de accurately gauged by the extrordinary precautions which he takes for his personal safety.He seldom stirs! from his [gilded pricon known as Yildiz Kiosk, and when he docs nothing is leftiundone to prevent any rossible attempt at assassination.Last week he visited the lold Seraglio or palace\u201d on.the Stamiboul side! of the Golden Horn.The journey was undertaken purely from religious motives, asthe had to perform the ceremony of \u201cvenerating the Pronhet\u2019s Mantle.\u201d | Overnight a thousand arrests were made, and in the morning the whole First Army Corps, of over 40,000 men, lined the four and a half mile route thht he had tp travel.Even with these preparations he was afrail to return the same way so Re reached his palace again by water, des- vite Mis motorious repugnance to that element.What more eloguent testimozy could be offered as to the hopeless state of affairs in Turkey?Threatened from without, and menanced from within, in hourly fear of a lurking death which he canno: see, there are few men ro popr as to envy the lot of AbdulyHamid.RATIONAL: CLOTHING WANTED.\u201cFor the hard marching and many bodily exercises which fall to the lot of the soldier on.active service, the army was more suitably dressed in the reign of William III.and Queen Anne than it has been generally in the present century.No man tied up as ours are in tightly fitting tunics can do a satisfactory day\u2019s | work in case of war\u2019?These were words used by Lord Wolseley, \u20acom- mand'r-in-Chief of the British Army, and under his regime it is to be expert\u2019 | ed that some inmiportant changes will he made in the uniform of Imperial troops ail the world over.The question is known to be under consideration at the British \u2018war ofice, and it is altogether probable that Colonel Lake, Quarter Master General of the Canadian Militia, during his present visit to England, will have had opportunity of forming some idea of changes which may be under consideration.However the War Office - may decide upon the question, it is sure enough that Canada should move to- | ward the adoption of a more rational style of dress for the militia.The question | fs not one to be disposed of easily, for in Canuda the extremes of heat and celd | are met and, for obvious reasons, one uniform must be made to suit all conditions, The tight fitting tunics of scar let and rifle green which \u2018are now in sueh work 'us the militia is likely to be called upon to perform.This was proved beyond peradventure in the Northwest re- | bellion of 1885: The men came back | with trousers ragged and tunics split in every seam.\u2018The clothing of riflemen and infantrymen alike had approached in color & newtral brown tint instead Soft K sticking to the green and scarlet which had characterized it at the commence: ment of the campaign.The question of | color is of course a detail, though it | would be hard indeed to part with what envious ones have called *Engluand\u2019s cruel red,\u201d But England herself in recent lig- tle wars has sent her men to the front in common sense uniforms, and why | should Canada.out-England England in her duvotion: to the scarlet?It has been held that an attractive uriform is a strong incentive to men to join.This is true enough, but the manner in witich the present uniforms are worn, at say a brigade camp, could not in the wildest flight of imagination be considered as attractive.IN-fitting, uncomfortable tunics, wildly flapping trousers, either too long or too short, and perfectly inipos: gible helmets combine to make a well built, clean muscled man rather a source of merriment than of admiration.With the coming of the new arms a radical change should be made in the matter of clothing and equipment.The close-fit- ting tunic might be replaced with a far more comfortable garment and a ecart- ridge belt would be found both economical and convenient when compared with the pouches at present in use.The white helmet is a brain-baking horror.It is a furnace in summer, and it would be a refrigerator in winter.The slouch felt hat such as is worn in South Africa and Australia is infinitely more serviceable and far less costly.It is not expected that these views will meet with those of military authorities generally, but it Lord Wolseley; with which this article is preferred, the question is one of serious consideration.\u2014_\u2014 THE HARVEST WRONG, © A Swedish legend tells how in the wild old days a chier obtained a broad tract of land that had been taken from him in one of the struggles that were for ever desolating the land.Determining by hook or crook to best his adversary he set out and represented to the victor the difficult position he and his retainers were placed in on account of iti being the fall and having no land to sow to produce food the next year.In order to avoid this calamity, the beaten chieftain proposed that the land be lent to him for one harvest.This was agreed Lo and the harvest duly sown.Time rolled on and the owner came to claim his land, when he wag calmly told, \u201cYou must not come\u2018 for many years yet, I sowed acorns.\u201d So, says thé story, the land was lost through the owner\u2019s carelessness in not taking care of what was gown on his property.There are two kinds of harvest, the one giving quick returns and therefore being the most thought ef; the other that is long in maturing, slow in growth and often overlooked by the eareless thinker.It may seem a useless occupa~ tion to spend time in discussing the battles of the Amalekites and Hittites, the struggles on Mesopotamian plains or the swift inroads of the Bedouin hordes in the.bye-past, but when it is considered that all these peoples\u2014together with art-loving Greece and imperial Rome\u2014fell and were sown on the fields where nations grow, then the importance of the life of the old world peoples, even on the present day life of us that dwell beyond the waves, is clear and the slow but sure harvest of a nation\u2019s deeds is shown.The deep, low worthy from his seat, the wild frenzy that steeped Paris in blood, the fierce gallantry of the Magyars against united courts and the inflexible fight of the Netherlander that smote the wealthiest realm of Europe all reveal the harvest day, a day that meant death, torture, dishonor to.thousands who never had the faintest gleam of hope in their lives, but were content to do and dare all; that some day, somewhere the right \u2018might triumph.Nations are nbt freed in hb moment, nor do they spring to man\u2019s estate in a° day.The burning enthusiasm of youth Such 1s needed, lest the diletantte gentlemen.go asleep, or indulge in Miss Nancy schemes to deal with starving men, but one thing is clear, thatithe great battles of the world have been wot, not by splendid dashes aldne, but by the stolid squares who stand for long hours under à pitiless fire, content to wait for the opportune moment.The need then is for, men who have stamina enough to stand and wait, and more,\" who realize that seeds are being sown to-day in our land, the results of which will be seen in the future.wt It is detestable and hateful enough for Canada to be a laughing stock amongst the peoples, because she thas | Ministers that no man knows where they are; hugging a leader to-day, out | With stilettos to kill him to-morrow, and the next day ence more embracing him in fulsome adulation till another chance comes, when by treachery, it is possible to gain.Such things, coupled with open corruption, mangled private messages and all the rest of the roisome moral mes that has defiled life of late seem like stories cut out iof the worst times in Roman history, but there is more; the seeds bf a harvest are being sown, which must, according to the laws of causation, fone day have an effect.Borrowing the land for a time, there is being sown, by corrupt men, that which will be a bame and curse to the future.Whenever any vile deed is done which achieves success, at once those who are inclined to evil, greedily devout the story and put it into practice, as lia shown by the press.A corrupt public life is an encouragement to the lazy, clever scamp to try his hand at the Same game, and so the thing spreads and an awful harvest is being sown.\u201cEvery man is the son of his own deeds,\u201d says the Spanish proverb, a saw \u2018which Is equally true when applied to nations.Let any man calmly and dispassionately read the political history of Canada, and then ponder over what is! the logical outcome of such a state of affairs.Men are needed, such as we have, who are willing to give up all and suffer all, in.a thousand ways the world can never know of, that not only to-day we may havera purer state of affairs, but that our children may not have to suffer from the outcome of years of accumulated wrong.The man who does nothing for | nothing, who cannot contest a seat without a promise of good things to come, fs hot needed.\u2018There are too many of that contemptible breed; what is needed ig the one who for right\u2019s sake fights, and dles, leaving the fight for others to Carry on, if need be, and fighting because he believes that to-day is the father of the future, and that as to-day is, so will the future be.When the Roman Emperor swept into the conquered city amidst a brilliant throng of .warriers and heroes, he had embroidered on his horse\u2019s * trappinge\u2014 that all men might read\u2014his motto: \u201cLet us labor,\u201d the secret he said of all his victories.It is a Mmainspring of all success, hard, unceasing, hopeful, labor, before it difficulties mfist vanish and the rough places be made plain.The people that have left the impress of their laws and language on the civilized world, whose works still join great cities, and protect provinces, in their pure, and therefore omnipotent days, upheld the power and dignity of labor.To-day a Light equally hard, a foe just as crafty, is to be met.The teaching of the days of old, as seen in the harvest of today, ought to inspire all to go forward over mountains of difficulty and chasms of treachery to the great day of victory which must crown all honest and persistent endeavor! An old sbldiet* with the Victoria Cross was recently convicted in London pf highway robbery.It was his fourth o°- fence.A sergeant on returning from the Ashantl \u201ccampaign\u201d was arrested on his return on a charge of bigamy is urged that in view, of the opinion of 4 -movement that swept an English king | would reform all things in a moment.| MONTREAL DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1896.and one of Jameson's followers only arrived in England to get three months for embezzlement.From this it would appear that the pathg of glory occasionally lead to the jail.- Cr Lieut.Lang, of the U, S.artillery, has recently been having his affairs investigated.He was one of West Point's brightest graduates, but he married the daughter of a commissary sergeant and this was mat in acedrdance with the traditions of the service.And yet there are no social distinctions in the United States! \u2026 CH a \u2014 TT The New Yofk Sun regards the possible establishm®t of a Canadian tran:- Atlantic fast steamship line as a blow at the commerce of New York and a practical scheme to bring injury ka the United States.It is a wonder that fhe esteemed Sun permits our blood te circulate, k Poor Od Cecil! Cecil Rhodes has never been under the influence of any one of the fair sex.\u2014 Vanity Fair.It Certainly is ©Odd.It is a strange coincidence that the men who don\u2019t care a snap for beauty are always to be found near the prettiest girl.\u2014Brockville Times.A Mean Advantage, By praying at a man you can both gratify your malignity by slyly casting upon him an imputation of wickedness, and impress people with your own pious superiority.\u2014N.Y.Sun.Has Corns on Her Voice.There will be few regrets when the time comes for Freedom to stop shrieking at Ottawa.She has been working her voice overtime, and in truth is growing a trifle hoarse.\u2014Hamilton Spectator.Pink Posters fur Pale Pocis, A pallid poet pored O\u2019er a pretty paragon; He preened it and he pared it And he pieced the padding on.Then he put a price upon it, And a painter pale and qucer, Paid to paint it on a poster For a pork-packing peer.\u2014New York Press.Not Found in All Hymn Books, An English clergyman, who has been getting up for a magazine a symposium on \u201cWhat Hymns Have Helped Me Most,\u201d wrote to Andrew Lang for a contribution on the subject.He has just received this reply: \u201cThe hymns from which I have obtained the most comfort are unquestionably the Homeric ones\u2014 particularly those addressed to Demeter and Aphrodite.\u201d\u2019\u2014Buffalo Courier.AS OTHERS SEE US, The Boston Herald, commenting upon Canadian political affairs said yesterday: The address made a few days since by Mr.Laurier, the leader of the Canadiun opposition, relative to the Roman Catholic influences that were brought to bear for the purpose of making hi.1 vote in favor of compelling the Government of Manitoba to provide separate schools for the chiidren of Roman Catholic parents, ji$ an assertion which required on the | part of its maker not a little moral and mental courage.He sald, in effect; that when it came to acting upon public questions in whieh the interests of Canada were involved his first thought must and would be the interests of Canada\u2014without regard to whether the project in question was opposed or sup ported by Protestants or Roman Cath- \u2018Olles, and that he did not propose te have his actions controlled or his course | dietated by tho-e who considered national action simply on the basis of thein own religious feelings, To realize what such an assertion of Personal independence means it is neceseary to take into account not only that Mr.Laurier is a good Reman Catholic, the representative of a great French-Canadian Roman Cath: ole constituency, but that the Roman Catholic Church in Canada exercisés an influence upon the minds of its members much more potent than than which the Roman Catholic Church can, bring to bear on this side of the border line.In one of his books of travel, Sir Charles Dilke says, speaking of this, that when the traveller had an interview with the cardinual-archbishop in Baltimore he realizes that he is in the presence of a representative of a democracy, where men stand upon aw equal footing, and where supremacy in an exacting form is quite impossible.On the other hand, when one meets in his own palace -the cardinal-archbishop of Quebec one is car- Tied back in mind 150 years, to the time when the higher clergy in\u2019 France posi sessed a vast degree of sceial and political, as well as religious, authority.It \u2018is this power that Mr.Laurier has in a certain way defled.The Conservative Government hag enlisted the aid of the Roman Catholic ¢lergy by the action it has taken, and has evidently endeavored to use their aid in forcing Mr.Laurier, the leader of the opposition, to aceept their proposition, thus demoralizing both political parties to such an exteiif that the Liberals could not tuke advantage of Conservative weakness, It is this attempt at dictation that Mr.Laurier has indignantly resisted, and, although this resistance is likely to eost him a good many votes in kis own constituency, it will unquestionably hold the Liberal party together; and- bring to it such accessions of Conservative strength that, taking the Dominion as a whole, the next general eleetion, which must be held in less than six months, can hardly fail to be attended by a Liberal victory?KING HUMBERTS BIRTHDAY.The Italians of this city gelebrated the birthday of King Humbert în a becoming manner on Saturday evening.There was a large attendance im St.Joseph\u2019s Hall, which was presided over by Mr.Dimi.The work which the committee of the Italian Red Cross Society had undertaken on behalf of the wounded soldiers in Africa was discussed, and the secretary, Mr.Cavalli, showed what had already been accomplished in the way of getting subscriptions from Jta- lians all over Canada.The Consul-General, Com.Solimbergo, in the course of an address, brought ko mind one of the particulars # the late war, and explained the bent and the services of the benevolent institutions of the Red Cross, and appealed \u2018especially to women who, mothers, sisters, wives, daughters, all understand better than others such enormous griefs\u2014woman means chavity.When he reminded the audience of the fact that England dur~ ing the latter half of this century has always been the best friend and helper of Italy frpm the time of the famous letter of Mr.Gladstone to l.ord Aberdeen.à \u2018 A vollection in ald of the fund was taken up by the committee \u2018at the clove of the meeting.\u2018 The occasion of the \u201cBrownies\u201d eom- pany coming to Montreal from Toronto Tuesday night will necessitate the G.T.R.express being run in two sections owing to the extent of properties and the number of people in the organization., : THE STAGE AND PLATFORM.° rt Two Good Performances Last Night\u2014 Something of Coming Attractions.Messrs.Sparrow and Jacoby, of the Theatre Royal, deserve the thamks of theatre-goers for the manner in which \u2018they have lived upto their promises.At the beginning of the season the management promised that the attractions nt the old Rpypl would be up to those of high priced houges, and the shows this Season, given sp far, at popular prices, more than realized the expectations of the doubting bones, Yesterday there was produced for the first tine in Morgtreal at the Royal, Scott Marble\u2019s realistic melodrama entitled \u201cThe Sidewalks of New York.\u201d The chi is put on under the personal superintendence of the author, whb alwaya plays in the caste, and he must have felt ia sense of pride at the manner in which this efforts met with the approval of the large audiences present yesterday.There is nothing strikingly original in the plat of \u201cThe Sidewalks of New Ycfik,\u201d it 1s da the same oid lines, the prevailing sentiment belng man\u2019s \u2018duplicity to man, and woman\u2019s weakness in loving a married man with the consequent allusions to the sins of the flesh, etc.The author in his treatment has struck a very happy vein and has done his \u2018work well.The bublic, of course, hankers after the clash of emotions, and, breaches of the social ard moral code, are fruitful of such cor- fifets.The audience is bath interest.d and amused in witnessing such fa performance, for the dramatist has a great &Lope In the treatment of such a play.He has the emoticlal end 9 well As a splendid opportunity to display his knowledge of human nature by the mane ner 1m whim ha depicts the various characters to be met with id a metros rolitan city.M.cott Marble has done his work well.Neither sides ar: exaggerated, toth are natural.The play is strong from a scientific standpoint, and the exact representations of Herald Square, Broadway, and some of the lower portions of New York life, were very fine, ghd were duly \u2018appreciated.The production is strong in specialties.There is a large performing Russian bear, plenty of singing and dancing and Mr.Kearney P.Speedy divest 35 feet into a tank of water.The while cast Is a strong and efficient one.Mr.Barry Johnstone interprets the part of Roy Pemberton, the ungrateful son, and he coes it well, every act and gesture seem- eid natural, He makes the part a su.- cess.His pal in crime, a crafty Italian, whose life purpose is revenge, was | strongly ahd vividly by Mr.Louis F.Howard.Miss Adelaide Goundre had the difficult role of the wronged girl and shiz did it well.The (omic and humerous parts were attended to by Mr.Dan Williams and Charles T.Aldrich, the former in a negro cha - acter, the latter a tramp.Mr.Aldrich\u2019s work in his line stamps him an artist.IL showed & genuine conception of cha:- acter study.Those two characters su - Plled plenty of the comedy element.Mie.Harry F.Winsman, whistled cleverly and was applauded half a dozen times, The remainder of the cast was all that could be desired.Every phase of life was represented by people who Knew their business.\u201cThe Sidewalks of New f York,\u201d made adecided hit, and justly, ton.The play is well werth seeing and should draw as crowded houses all week as those which greeted the imitial pre- duction yesterday.Cot THEATRE FRANCAIS.The popularity o! the Theatre Fran- Cals as a place of amusement seems to increase week by week, and, the general excellence .of the performance seems to gradually improve.The drama which is being staged by the company this week is a story of western life called, \u201cThe Missing Heiress,\u201d which seemed seemed to find favor when presented last night for the first time.The characters were all admirably played, Miss Louise Arnot especially finding favor for her representation of Carrots.The scenery and eifects were very good.The vaudeville turns presented between the acts were very good, all the variety artists receiving unstinted applause.Bessie Gilbert received an encore for her excellently rendered cornet solos, O'Brien and Collins, comedy sketch artists, created much fun, and Bertini, female contortionist, performs some startling feats.The remaining turns were Leona Lewis, vocalist; Polly Black, terpsichorean artiste, and Baby Bennett, wonderful child artiste, who created Such a success last week.| building last evening was far too warm, The and it was the general opinion that the management would do well to remedy this defect.Yor, PALMER COX'S \u201cBROWNIES.\u201d ©.B.Jefferson, Klaw and Ertangger\u2019s brilliant amd long awaited production, Palmer + Cox\u2019s \u201cBrewnies,\u201d will be seen at the Mog ument National the last four wghts of this | week, with! matinees Thursday and Saturday, Manager Frank Murphy Having trans ferred it from the Academy of Musfey) where tho notable attraction was originally booked.\u201cThe Brownies,\u201d which is thle work of thie famous Canadian, Palmer Cox, ig already.excit'ng a great deal of curiosity, ang tie magnificerit spectacle, which is undeubt- edly the finest that bas ever been brcught! to Montreal; will attract great crowds, On Thursday night over 200 people from Gran by will witvess the performance.Saturday night will be \u201cMcGill medical night,\u201d and | this spocial performance, which will ahem) \u2018w complimentary allusions to McGill, with} a profuse display, of the university colors | throughont, will be of thle most unigne and delightful character.The medical studerts will have finished their examinations, and they will celebrate by attending the per fosmamce in a body.A number of {haatre parties will witmless \u201cThe Brownies?\u2019 during the limited engagement.HOW THE POINT WAS RAISED.Mr, Crankshaw the First to Raise the Validity of she City Council, The point whether Montreal has a legally qualified City Council for the | year 180% was first raised by James Crankshaw, the well-known lawyer, on February 19 last, when arguing against the validity où the oprosition to an application for a Ticensed hotel on Victoria Street.Mr.Crankshaw, in the course of his address to the Licetsz Commissioners on that occasion, then stated that in his opinion the municipal elections for Mayor and aldermen, held on February 1, were equally invalid as the opposition to the license.In point of fact it was Mr.Crankshaw who first raised this delicate point, and in view of the judgment of Judge Gill in the Ouimet-Grothe cases, and the promise of further proceedings to unseat the new City Council in its entirety, his remarks in this connection will not come amiss, seeing that they contain the points on which the application to upset the present City Council will rest.The following is a report of Mr.Crankshaw\u2019s remarks on the occasion referred to: Mr.Crankshaw, on behalf of the applicant, submitted that the opposition was illegal for two reasons, first, because it should have been based upon and signed by a majority of the electors qualified by the list of 182%, seeing that that was the list in operation when portrayed | the 20th January; and, AMUSEMENTS.AMUSEMENTS, § AMUSEMENTS, JEON ACROBAT uN Pau MER (X'S BROVNIES® The Flyin Ballet, ying The Oriental Draneing Girls, The Phenc- menal Demon Acrobats, The Thrilling Storm nt Sen.TheShipwreck and Rescue.The Realistic Earthquake & Volcano.The Destrue- tion of the Palace.\u201cA Night in Brownieland.\u201d Frank Deshon, Ida Mulle, Lina Merville, Marie Millard, Ursula Gurnett, Georgie Denin, Jessie Calef, Sol.Solomon, (Chas.Hagan, Robt.Cummings, And the\u2018 Great New York \u2018rs ganization of _ A = td passe ONUMENT National, Four Nights Only.DIRECTION - - - FRANK MURPHY.Wednesday, Thur., Fri.& Sat.Nights § March 18, 19, 20 & 21.LA Watinees, Thursday aud Saturday.Thursday\u2014\u201cGrenby Night.\u201d Saturday\u2014\u201cMcGill Medical Night.\u201d C.B.Jefferson, Klaw & Erlanger\u2019s Enormously Successful Production Palmer B ROW N I ES Cox\u2019s The World's Greatest Spectacle, Under i the personal supervision of the famous Canadian, Palmer Cox.Popular prices, 2c, 50c, 75¢, $1.i ROYAL AGRICULTURAL HALL, LONDON, ENG.HE following established Exhibitions latest 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EXHIBITION AND MARKET WILL BE HELD ON THE 2xD To 91H OCTOBER, 1898.Managing Director\u2014W.E.AYLWIN, Esq., Canned Cood Broker, Managing THE BREWERS\u2019, MALTSTERS, DISTILLERY\u2019, MINERAL WATER MARUFAC- TURERS,\u201d WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS AND \u201c ALLIED TRADERS\u2019 48th ANNUAL EXHIBITION AND MARKEI WILL BE HELD FROM OCTOBER 31st To NOVEMBER 6r5, 1896.Directors\u2014 ARTHUR T.DALE, M.J.I., anp Carr.JOHN REYNOLDS.the application was filed, that, as the applicant was bound by law to file his application not later than the 20th of January, it was impossible for him to obtain the required certificate could mot come into legal effect until secondly, De- cause the new voters\u2019 lists for 1896 were absolutely null and void for want of compliance with the law as contained in the city charter; for, according to a memo, signed by the Assistant City Clerk, it appeared that the new lists were not signed by the chairman of the Board of Revisors and countersigned by the City Clerk before the 20th of January last, as required by law, but were only signed and countersigned an the 20th of January last.Mr.Crankshaw cited an Ontario case, showing that where the law provided that the voters\u2019 lists when revised must be signed by a certain official and filed on record at least one month before the issue of the writ of election, and that where an election had taken place upon the lists of the year 1871, which had been signed and filed only 12 days before the issue of the writ of election, way held that the election should have taken place on the lists of the previous year, 1879, and there being evidence to ghow that the Euccessful candidate had obtained a number of votes which he could not have obtained under the lists of 1870, and whieh being struck off turned his majority into a minority, the court declared the other candidate elected, as having & majority of votes of the electors om the ligts of 1870.Commissioners Dugas and Desnoyerg «decided that the Dominion Alliance\u2019s op position was illegally based upon the new list, and dismissed it, Commissioner DeMontigny dissenting.\u2014Herald, Feb.21.It will be seen that Judges \u2018Dugas and Desnoyers, both well skilled in the law, at once saw the force of the position; taken by Mr.Crankshaw.Mr.Crankshaw is at present absent in Europe in connection with the Andrew.J.Boya extradition case.Federation Lodge A.O.U.W.have taken a step of great interest to all their friends.They have appointed a press committee whose duties will consist of promoting the best interests of their lodge and order through space granted them by city papers.' 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If anybody axes about my Jim to-morrow or next day, you kin say he\u2019s in bed and under the doctor\u2019s eazet\u2019\u2014Detiroits Free Press, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 ITS PURE.We, making a specialty or Homb-Made breud, are very careful that the materials Usel are good and pure.That is what makes ou bread so nice.If you would like t» try it a telephone call will bring it to you.ALLATT\u201dS, 138 St.Antoine Street, Telephone 2980, = THE PLIGHTING STONE, mess An Old Relic Which Has Boen Brought From Scotland, Pnder a glass case in the museum of the Canadian Institute lies what is without doubt the oldest stone ever brought into this country from Europe.It is a plighting stone, and could it speak, could tell of petrothals and love and passion Away back in the days when the religion of the Chaldees and the practices of the re worshippers were the latest, up-to- ate, fin de siecle ideas of Scotland.To get hpld off a plighting stong is no pasy; task.The first difficulty ts to find one, and the second is to persuade the owner to part with; 1t before other competitors ave prosecuted their charms.Mr.Hugh Nichol, of Stratford, and Mr.David Boyle, of this city, have managed to overcome these difficulties, andj now \u2018Toronto pos- Sesse a real, sacred plighting stone.It was not obtained without some trouble, inasmuch as Oxford University wes after it, and the claime of the university were backed up by the parson of the parish where the stone was.Nichol came across it when looking for & quern, or ancient hand mill; which Mr.David Boyle had asked him to get for the Canadian Institute.The stone was in the possession, of Miss Mary Büchanan, of Lairg, Sutherlandshire, and that lady Presented it, to the Canadian Institute, In spite of the efforts of the Rev., Mr.McLeod, who wanted it for Oxford.At one time.it was in the church at Lairg/ oy many & Highland laddie has passed 1 8 hand through, grasped that of his ady love, and sworn to be true for aye.h the plighting stone are two other ancient stones, one marked with a Roman V., which might; have been a weight, and prother which looks as #f it had been | he upper stone for grinding corn.\u2014To- | ronto News.Do you really believe that sand and gre- vel can be allowed to remain inside of your kdudys) in direct contact with the mucous Membrane of those important organs, without canting mischief ?Inflammation, ulceration; and, alas! Bright's disease will follow unless you use in time Dr.Laviolette's Syrup of Turpentine, thu only supe uric sols vais the wife of 67 OTRATHROY A Tale of the \u201945.CHAPTER XIII.\u2014Continued.\u201cBut I have perpetrated no erime\u2014be- frayed no secret,\u201d she exclaimed, amazed, and curious to\u2019 know what might follow this gloomy prelude.\u201cThe law will protect me.\u201d \u201cThe gibbet and the musket are the only law-givers of the hour, and we have no time to regulate their measures nicely.Your erime, madam, is your kinship with the two most notorious of the rebels.\u201d \u2018That made her tremble a little, although she answered firmly\u2014 \u201cBut one of them is\u2014dead.\u201d \"That IS s0,\u201d he replied quietly, vet with the tone of one who is pronouncing a conclusive argument.\u201cI know it, for I was with the party who pursued Oliphant, and I saw his unhappy end.But, absurd as it may seem, a report has been received that he is still alive\u2014nay, more, that he 1s the chief agent of the insurgents, and is at present in the camp of General Kerr as a spys\u2019 Something bounded in her throat { her heart seemed to pause for an instant, and then it beat wildly.But tapping the table with her fingers, she answered, smiling feebly, \u201cThat is a very singular report.What Will be the consequences of it ?\u201d \u2019 \u201cThe general is so fap convinced that there is some truth in this invention that he 1s about to make a thorough inspection of the camp.Every man will be examined, and the first who fails to give a satisfactory answer will be shot on the instant.\u201d \u2018 She found it very hard to subdue her emotion\u2014very difficult to restrain the cry of alarm that was wringing in her brain, and to speak with even an appearance of calmness.\u2018 \u2018 He was observing her compassionately, and yet with a lurking enquiry which the slightest indiscretion on her part would have transformed into a suspicion of the truth., \u201cBut why tell me all of these \u2018horrors 7\u201d she sald, with affected careless- ness\u2014displayed by the exertion of her utmost strength.\u201cI am not interested.\u201d He was satistied, because he wished to be so.His vanity helped her there again.\u201cPardon me, madam,\u201d he proceeded gently.\u20181 fear you are too deeply interested.The enquiry which is now afoot may\u2014most likely will\u2014lead to your identification.That is why I am here \u2014to warn you.\u201d \u201cI am afraid the \u2018warning will not shield me from danger.\u201d \u201cI have not come to warn you only, butf to tell you that there is one mear who has the power, and who is resolved to protect you at any hazard\u2014if you will permit him.\u201d She rose slowly to her feet.The crisis which she had anticipated had come much more rapidly than she could haved divined.\u201cI am grateful to the friend who would help me through this trial; but I cannot, and will not allow anyone to be involved in my distress.\u201d \u201cBut the friend of whom I speak would count himself happy to die in the effort to secure your safety.And I shall venture all-my positicn, my reputatign, everything for your sake.\u201d \u201cColonel Strang!\u201d she cried, drawing back affrighted by the sudden impetuosity of his manner, while she could no longer affect to misunderstand him.\u201cForgive me, madam,\u201d he said, penitently.blunt a soldier to be a politic wooer.But the devotion with which I have watched your movements, and, unknown to you, guarded you from harm\u2014the silence with which I have respected your \u2018time of mourning, should be some proof of the sincerity of my passion.You cannot deny my suit, for my protection is necessary to you and to your sister.\u201d She averted her face to hide from him the expression of repugnance and alarm - which his propogal excited in spite of herself.JAgain he misinferpreted the movement as one favorable to his suit, and he advanced to take her hand.\u201cI am grateful to you, sir, for your friendship,\u201d she said hastily, \u201cbut I must appeal to your generosity, and be- geech you not to repeat this proposal.\u201d He regarded her searchingly, but his voice was subdued and courteous.\u201cI understand\u2014I have been too abrupt.Forgive me; I will be more careful next time.Meanwhile give me leave to think that I have a right fo defend you.\u201d How she longed to say \u201cNo\u201d\u2019\u2014loud and decisive.But that would be to make him an enemy at once, and for Malcolm's sake she dare not do that.She only sail], huskily, while her whole nature was stung by the humiliation of her position.\u201cI cannot pretend, sir, to control your thoughts.\u201d Co \u201cThank you; I am content even with that slight admission,\u201d he cried, elated.\u201cIt is my humor to look upon ghd sunny side of life, and I am satisfied that when you hawe time to think that I alone stand between you and your foes, that I alone ean restore you to freedom and to fortune, you will not hesitate to throw aside these melancholy widow's weeds.When you are my wife, the services I have rendered to the Government will recover for you the lands of Elvanlee.\u201d That was one of her attractions in his | eves; and she sickened under the restraint she was obliged to exercise.Had it not been for the impending inspection | of which he had informed her, she would have risked every consequence, and finally dismissed him.\u201cYou misunderstand me,\u201d she faltered, and he interrupted her, smiling.- \u201cNo no, Î understand perfectly the delicacy of your position, and, believe me, I respect if.But when next we meet I beseech you let me find you in gayer attire, for then I shall ask you to name the day on which you shall bid farewell td sorrow, and I to suspense.\u201d He raised her hand to his lips respectfully, and she submitted with an inward shudder.I à The door opened, and Dr.Fairlie stood on the threshold.: He understood the state of affairs at a glance ; he divined the violence she had done to her feel- ingd in order to follow his advice, and for the instant he regretted having | given! it.\u2018 The next best thing to not having counseled her to submit to the colonel\u2019 addresses was to relieve her of his pres~ ence as quickly ais possible.So, taking snuff with a sônorous nasal accompaniment, which could nat fail to make his presence known, he advanced.The colonel wheeled round and mentally cursed the dntruder, while Margaret blessed him.The two men saluted with every appearance of friendliness.\u201cI heard you had arrived, colonel,\u201d said the doctor, quite jovially, and, thinking that you would be anxiqus to reachi the general\u2019s quarters, I came to offer my services as your guide.I am going there myself, and I know that he ig expecting you.\u201d \u201cI will accompany you at once,\u201d rejoined Strang; and, turning to the lady, \u201cWe part, madam, sooner than I would wish ; but be assured you are safe under my care.Good bye.Now, doctor, I'm ready.\u201d Fairlie took leave of Mrs.Malcolm, linked his arm in the colonel\u2019s, and marched him out.Margaret drew breath as if a mist had been cleared away, and the atmosphere purified.! Fairlie returned hastily.\u201cYour father ig reported to be at the head of the gathering in Lochaber.Goodness knows where Lt will end ; but courage, courage\u2014gverything depends upon | that.\u201d He departed without waiting for & reply, dm spite of the effort she made to detain him in order to acquaint him with the ominous tidings Strang had brought.To be continued.1 tm, \u201cI have startled you.I gm too à stove; stir in ono cup of sugar; beat quick: them in a cloth, rofl in fine bread crumbs; | the beef; roll and tie with a tapd or si¥ing baking pan) adding the water in which it VOT VVVVW DTD ® ; Fish Department, From to-day till Easter we will \u2018 have a selection of from 30 0 to 60 different varieties of fresh and salt water fish for vou to ¢ 9 select from.Live and i ê Lobsters daily.and Boiled @ Brown Bros, WINDSOR MARKET.+++ 4% +%+%+ His label GUARANTEES All Goods.783 and 785 Craig Street, MONTREAL LIVERPOOL, LONDON & GLOBE INSURRNGE GOMPANY.Canada Board of Directors: Hon.HENRY STARNES, ._ = Chajrman Edmond J, Barbeau, Esq, Deputy Chairman W, J.Buchanan, Esq., A, ¥.Gault, IIsgq Sam\u2019l, Finley, Esq.Amount Invested in Canada, & 1,350,000 Available Assets, - - «- 58,189,135 MERCANTILE RIBKS accepted st lowest currentrates., G.F.C, SMITH, Chief Agt.for the Dominion SUB-AGENTS: JOBN G, R.DRISCOLL, Tros, ram Gro.R.ROBERTSON & SONS.Special {rh h Department, peciasl Agent French Der YER LAURIN | INSOLVENT NOTICE.tor In the matter of R.G.FRIGON, St.Thecle.The undersigned will sell by public auction at No.69 St.James Street, Montreal, WEDNESDAY, 18TH MARCH, 1896, At 11 o'clock a.m., the movable assets of the insolvent : ' Dry Goods, hats and furs .$622.79 Boots and Shoes \u2026 .« .62.65 Stationery \u2026 co.ver eer \u2018was ers one 14.98 Groceries .viv we wee eee ve oo 483.32 Hardware .ver te ees ens ses ees 376.46 Crockery and glassware .\u2026 68.42 Store fixtures .ee eee eet.52.06 $1,580.67 Property right on a shed .150.00; Book debts, per list .we oe oo 421.49 Bills receivable .27.58 Store will be open for inspection on the 16th and 17th inst.For further information apply to LAMARCHE & BENOIT, Jcint Curators, - 1769 Notre Dame Street, Montreal.MARCOTTE BROS.Auctioneers.SALE BY AUTHORITY OF JUSTICE There will be sold by auction on the EIGHTH OF APRIL NEXT, at five o\u2019clock in the afternoon, in virtue of an authorization by justice, at the office of Louis Bedard, Notary, situated at No.1560 Notre Dame Street, in the City of Montreal, the emplacement hereafter described, being the property of the succession of John \u2018Whittaker : An emplacement forming part of lot number eighteen on the official plan and book of reference for St.Louis Ward, in said City of Montreal, of about fifty- one feet wide in front, forty-eight feet nine inches in rear, sixty-six feet on the south-westerly side line and sixty feet five inches on the morth-easterly side line.bounded in front by Vitre Street, in rear and on the north-east side by official lot nineteen, and on the south-westerly side by a common passage, part of said number eighteen, with the use of said passage in common.For conditions apply to T.BEDARD, N.P.INSOLVENT NOTICE.PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, | + ; DISTRICT OF MONTREAL.À Superior Court In re JOHN M.INGLIS & CO., traders, .Montreal.Notice is hereby given that the undermentioned has been duly appointed curatar to this estate, and the creditors are hereby notified to fyle their claims with him, within 30 days from this date.I.W.RADFORD, Curator: Estate John M.Inglis & Co.Office of Radford & Walford, Imperial Building, La Montreal.INSOLVENT NOTICE.In the matter of Emile Bourret, Tobacco- ist, No.2335 St.Catherine Street, \u2018Montreal, Insolvent.The undersigned will sell by public auction, en bloc, on TUESDAY, THE 2ith MARCH, 1898, at 11 o'clock a.m., at their auction room, No.69 St.James Street, all the movable assets of the said insolvent, to wit: Stock of Cigars, Pipes, etC.$277.97 Fixiureg.ees see eee eee ese bee 064.15 Book Debts as per list \u2026 \u2026.\u2026 185.48 ° $977.55 The store will be open for inspection of stock on Monday, the 28rd inst.For further information, apply to CHAS DESMARTEAU, Curator, No.1598 Notre Dame St, Montreal.MARCOTTE BROS, Auctioneers.IT PAYS To get your Plumbing done by Ut for it is fixed to stay fixed if we doit.Our prices are moderate, WALL & WALSH, 652 Craig Street, RAILWAYS, CUNARD LINE FAST EXPRESB MAIL SERVIOR, NEW YORK TO LIVERPOOL Calling at Queenstown.Céruria.see use + sesees Sat.Mar.21, Noon ampania., evden.Sat.Mar.28, 5.00a.m I mbria.SUR.0ca 2010000 Sat.April 4, 10.00 a.m Recania Seer trian.eae Sat.Aprilll, 5.00a.m & Turis.#\u2026s0s0000000.Sat.April 18, 10.00 a.ampania.,.Sat.April 25, 2.00 p.m L mbria.sous oe.Fat.May 2, 10.00 a.m ucania .,.,.,.oo Sat.May\u2018 9, 2.00p.m The steamers of this line have, for over ticty years, ar unequalled record for the safety and comfort of their passengers, RATES OF PASSAGE Cabin, $60 and upwards, Second cabin, $35 Rac, $45, according + steamer and accommoda- Steerage tickeis to and Europe at very low rates, from all parte of Through Bills of Lading given for Belfast, Glasgow, Havre, Antwerp and other ports on the Continent and for Mediterranean ports.For freight and passage apply at the Com Dany'soffice, No.4 Bowling Green, New York, VERNON Z, BROWN & CO.General Agents TEOMAS WILSON, Agent, ê0St, Francois Xavier streats Orto #1 GILMOUR & co, 354 St, Paul street, Montreal Hambure-American Packet Co, (HANSA LINE) The only direct line between Hamburg An werp and Canada affording regular sailings.WINTER SERVICE TO BOSTON FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS.SUMMER SERVICE.From From From .Hamburg, Antwerp, Montreal.Sicilia.11th April 14th April 6th May Hispania.25th April 28th April 20th May Scotia.9th May 12th May 3rd June Canadia.23rd May 9th May 17th June And fortnighlty thereafter.Prepaid tickets are issued for passage from Germany, Austia, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, France and all parts of the European Continent via Hamburg or Antwerp, at lowest rates of passage.Importers of German and Belgium goods will find it to their advantage by having their goods come by Hansa Line \u2018via Hamburg.Through bills of Jading issued in oon- nection with the Canadian and American Railways to principal points in Canada.For further particulars apply to the under mentioned : Respecting passage: D.CONNELLY, General Passenger Age > 14 Place d\u2019Armes Square, Montreal, Regarding Freight and other particulars: JAMES THOM, Freight and Shipping Manager, JOHNSTON LINE.N LINE.Regular Sailings, BOSTON TO LONDON.88.PARKMORE.a.«about March 20 SS.BRITISH QUEEN .\u2026.about March 30 SS.BAI/MIMORE.about April 3 gS.BRITISH EMPIRE.about April 11 ~S.BRITISH CROWN .about April 18 SS.PARKMORE.about April 26 For rates of freight, through bills of lading and full information, apply to all railway agents; Wm, Johnsten & Co, Ltd., Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Boston; 218 La Salle Street, Chicago ; 208 Railway Exchange Building, St Louis; or to WM, JOHNSTON & Co.Ltd.* Board of Trade Building, Montreal.\u2014\u2014 DOMINION LINE ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS, LIVERPOOL SERVICE.From From Steamer Portland.Halifax.Scotsman.Mar.12, 1 p.m.Mar.14, 2 p.m.Vancouver.Mar.26, 1 p.m.Mar.28, 2 p.m.Labrador.Apr.9, 1pm.Apr.11, 2 p.m.Scotsman.Apr.23, fp.m.Apr.25, 2 p.m.88, Canada\u2014Building, RATES UF PASSAGE \u2014 d'irst Cabin, Portland or Halifax to Liverpool or Lon- donderry, $50 te $70; return, $100 tc $130, according to steamer or berth.Second cabin, 380; return, $56.Steerage to Liverpool, London, Londonderly, Queens- town, Belfast or Glasgow, including outfit, $24.60 and 525.50, Midship Salnens, romenadeT'eecks.For further information apply to any Agent of tt: company, or to DAVID TORRANCE & co.Ç General Agents, Montreal.17 St.Sacrament Street.Under the Winding-Un Act, The Canada Pipe and Foundry Co., in liquidation.and William Clendinneng Flectrie Light, Spacious & Son, insolvents.* The undersigned will sell by auction at their office, No.97 St.James Street, Montreal, on Wednesday, the first day of April, 189s, at 11 o'clock a, m., the whole of that large and valuable property known as \u201cThe Clendinneng Foundry, situate at St.Henry, Montreal.The establishment comprises the ripe JLoundry, stove foundry, general foundry, machine shop, blacksmith shop, pat- terr shop, all fitted with the necessary machinery for the continuation of the bu- sinesy established by Mr.William Clen- dinneng.The plant is new and in complete running order.The property is known as the northerly portion of lois Nos.4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the sub-division of officias number 3413 on the plan and book Of reference for the municipality of the Parish of Montreal ; the northwest portion of lot 8 of sub-division of said official number 8413; lot No.12 of the sub- vision of No.3412 on said official plan and book of reference of said municipality ; of the southwest part of No.11 of the subdivision of No.8412 on said official plan and book of reference, and Nos.11, 12, 13 and 14 of the sub-division cf official No.1704 on said official plan and book of reference for the municipality of the Paris of Montreal.The property will be sold subject to the reservations contained in the list of charges deposited with the curators.KENT & TURCOTTE, * Curators of Wm.Clendinneng & Son.MARCOTTE BROS., \\ Auctioneers.KENT & TURCOITE, Liouidators of the Canada Pipe and Foun- » dry Company- District of Montreal.Superior Court.In re HENRY WATTERS & CO., ; Montreal.Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been duly appointed euraton to this estate, and the creditors are hereby notified to fyle their claims with hir, within 30 days from this date.F.W.RADFORD, Curator Estate Henry Watters & Co.Office of Radford & Walford, + + - , Imperial Building, INSOLVENT NO PROVINCE OF QUEBEC DISTRICT OF MONTREAL.In re PROVINCE OF creme À } Superior Court M.ELLINSON, Trader, : Montreal.Notice is hereby given that the undermentioned has been duly appcinted curator to this estate, and the creditors are hereby notified to fyle their claims with him, within 30 days from this date.F.W.RADFORD, Curator Estate M.Illinson.Office of Radford & Walford, Imperial Building, , 77 SHIPPING ALLAN Royal Mail Steamshipg Liverpool, Halifax and Portl Mail Service, \u201cand Roya) From Liverpool Steamship From eo Portland om 27 Feb.Mongolian, .Halitax go +19 Mar.21 M 12 Mar.Numidian.cous ar 26\u201c .Parisian., nl April $5 eri 9 April.*Laurentian.\" 28 < *The Laurentian on this v direct from Portland to Liverpoot Carrecds cabin passengers only.Montreal\u2014Liver.n service resumed with 3,8, Mongolian Ma, haa steamers weekly thereafter, y 2nd The Saloons and Staterooms are in th ral part, Thor least motion is felt.¢ity 1s used for lighting ths ships t the lights being at the command of tnoughou, zersat any hour of the night, Music Om, pnd Smoking Room on the promenada deck aloons an & \\ ; cioam™ °°\" \" \u20acrooms are heated by » W LE RATES\u2014Cabin : 85 À reduction of 10 per cent.is eo, ons 860.Trip Lickets except on the lowest rate Ound Second Cabin\u2014To or from Liv ° doncerry, $30 round trip, 855 (TéFpool or Lon.Steerage\u2014-To Liverpool, London, Belfast or Londonderry, including a plentifyj supply of provisions, cooked and served and every requisite for the vovage,.$24.50 Cape Town, South Africa, .S67 Steerage rates, per Parisian $1.09 higher.Trains connecting with the steamers } Montreal, via.C.P.R.8.40 pra.lay de via &.T.R., 7.55 a.m, Friday.Thursday, or Glasgow, Londonderry and New York Service (from New Pier, foot of W.2lsb Street, New York): e cent, Eleotri, Glasgow From TT ¥rom\u2014 w G lasgow ; Steamshipg New York 21 Feb.Carthaginian.12 Mar 6 Mav.,.Pomeranian.a.26 Mar 20 ar.orwegian.9 Apri 3April.State of Nebraska, .18 April Rates\u20141st cabin, $10 to $60; 2nd cabi 30 Bteerage to Glasgow, Belf: oa ea $ donderry at lowest rnies, ast or Low Outfit for steerage passengers furnished free, The Steamships State of California and State of Nebraska are not surpassed for their excel- nt accommodations for all classes of passen- The Saloons are forward, Staterooms near the centre of the ships\u2019 \u201cromenade deck the entire width of the vessel, and two thirds of her length.Electric lights throughout, and electric bells in every stateroom.No cattle carried.* Steamers marked thus de not Carry passengers eastbound.Glasgow and Boston Service, Calling ni Londonderry.* From Glasgow .From Boston Steomships.on or about 28 Feb.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.Scandinavian.17 Mar.13 Mar.Peruvian,.31 Mar 25 Mar .Siberian.11 April 8 April.Ausirian.25 April Andregularly thereafter.These Steamers do not carry Passengers on voyage to Glasgow.Glasgow, Liverpool, Halifax, Phila delphiaæ and Si.Foinn°5 Service.From From From From Glas- Liver- Steam- Phila- St.Johng gow.pool.ships.delphia on to to Halifax.or about.Glasgow.19 Feb.22 Feb.Corean.13 Mar.\u2014 4 Mar.7 Mar.Hibernian.27 Mar.\u2014\u2014 18 Mar.21 Mar.Assyrian.10 April 1 April 4 April.Corean.,.2¢ April -\u2014\u2014 Service via St.John's suspended until April 15.Pass ngers carried from Liverprol to Halifax and from Halifax to Philadelphi H.& A.ALLAN, 25 Common Street, Montreal.BEAVER LINE STEAMERS, WINTER SERVICE DIRECT SAILINGS BETWEEN St.John, N.B., & Liverpool From From Liverpool Steamer, St.John, N.B.Sat.Feb.1.Lake Winnipeg.Wed.Feb.19 és \u201c 15.Lake Huron .\u201c6 Mar.4 \u201c \u201c22.Lake Ontario.\u2018 \u201c * \u201c 29.Lake Superior.\u201c 18 Mar.14.Lake Winnipeg.* Apr.1 \u201c * 21.Lake Huron .0% 5 \u20ac \u201c 28.Lake Ontario.\u201c « 15 \u201c Apr.4.Lake Superior.\u201c \u201c 23 Winter rates of passage\u2014St.John to Liver\u2018 pool.First Cabin\u2014$40 and $45; round trip- $80 and £85, according to steamer and accom, modation.Second Cabin\u2014To Liverpool, $30.00 round trip, $55.00.To London, Bristol and Cardiff, $33.06; round trip $61.Steerage\u2014To Liverpool, London, Glasgow.Belfast, $24.50.Note\u2014Stecrage passengers by the Beaver Line are provided with the use of bedding and eating and drinking wensils free of charge.Specially low rall rates from Mont- rerl and all points from St.Fohn via Short Line.Steamers sail after arrival C.P.Ry Express, due at 1.30 p.m.Freight carried at lowest rates and to all important points, both in Canada and Great Britain, on through bills lading.Sp-cial facilities provided for the carriage of butter, cheese and perishable freight.For further particulars as to freight or passage apply to D.&C.MACIVER, D.W.CAMPBELIL, Mgr,, Tower Buildings, 18 Hospital Street Liverpool.Montreal.Dominion Line.African Steamship Company's Regular Line of First-Class Steamships \u2014BETWEEN PORTLAND\u2014 AND BRISTOL, Avonmouth Steamers of the aboveline insure at first class rates and are fitted up with all the modern improvements for carrying Live Stock, also Butter, Cheese, Grainand every description of general cargo, and are intended to be despatched as follows: \u2014 FROM AVOXNMOUTIEL SS.Memphis.0 220000000000 March FROM PORTEAND i SS.Memphis.\u2026.\u2026.1000000000 March 26 And Regularly Thereafter.For rates of freight and other particulars apply to Grand Trunk Railway Agents, at a stations, or to ELDER, DEMPSTER & CO.2319 Commissioners St, RÉONTREAL International Navigation Co.\u2019s Lines.AMERICAN LINE FOR SOUTHAMPTON.Shortest and most convenient route to Loudon, No transfer by tender.No tidal delay 5.Close connection at Southampton for Havre and Paris by special fast twin screw Channe steamers._ -ü I cabin, $60and upwards; IL cabin, $35 to $50.St.Paul, Mar.18,11a.m Paris.Apr.1,10a.m N.York.Mar.25,11a.m St.Paul.Avr.8,10a.m RED STAR LINE FOR ANTWERP.0 I.cabin, $50 and upwards; II.cabin, $33.Kensington.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.March 18, 12 noon Westernlenad.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.March 25, 12 noon INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY, 6 Bowling Green, New York, or W.H.Henry, 143 St.James Street.) W.I.Egg, 129 St, James Street.\\ Montreal J.Y.Gilmour & Co.354 St.Paul St.J mart INSOLVERT HOTICE.In the matter of Irene &.RM.Prudhomme, Insolvent I am instructed \u2018by the Curator, ' J.M.M, DUFF, ESQ.» to offer for sale by auction at 2 O'Clock Noon, On FRIDAY, 20TH MARCH ENST.» In Room 52, Imperial Baliding, BP ace d\u2019Arrmes, Montreal, The balance remaining unpaid an to said insolvent under a certain Dect of Sale from Irene G.M.Prudhom aitre Michel T.Lefebvre, passed before 1 Te A.C.Decary, N.P., on the 15th A on ber, 1894, amounting to $3,440.40, W owing crued interest.; - \"Also a certain debt due to said insol vent, amounting to about $432.00.plica- Particulars cen be obtained on ap tion._\u2014_ AGH AN, J.M.M.DUFF, :\" \u2018Auctioneers Curator.Montreal, 11th March, 1896.E.R.C.Clarkson .ASSIGNEE.Ontario Bank Chambers, Scott Street, Toronto.Clarkson & Cross | Chartered Accountants: SA (tn > rh 1 lin, toted to ma but mo tia not fun oc ion aro litt tril tior Ele tric Stre Tor Pos Pac Gas Ti tot: day the NE 0 LI AY ' ] À i / § \\ tog Hii vs 7 i .- a MONTREAL DAILY HERALD, YUKSUAY, MARKO 17, 1896, i r a leading Canadian securities, with the |j; ; icans Nop .LE 4 NVES [MENT Gaverument Movements in the past week: cle, (rites Americans were quiet and Business äbout equally, distributed! \u201cThere is no change in the tenor of Municipal and Price.Rise.Fall.going.stocks having decli Sry encour.March, April, May, June, July, August, the market.Tone weak and liquidation SECURITIES .Other First.Canada.5 per cents\u2026 2 = oF @, s Fob g declined from 48,- each 5s 3d.continues.Brosseau has turned büll and JS Class Bonds.do.3} per cents.= = 16 tons on or ruary 15, to 41,075 on Corn\u2014Spot, firnii \u2018American mixed, One long.Do not advoeate short sell- va \u2014_ do.4 per cents., 1885._ _ |March 15.le continental markets new, 2s 113d.Fututes opened firm, \\78- Market looks as if jt would sell Va Fe Suiable for Trust states, Banks, do, 3 per cents.,.103 \u2014 \u2014 were quict and featureless, with near and distant 1 itic | lower, but not much.\u201d & Sw Insurance Companies and Permanent British Columbia 3 per \u2014\u2014\u2014 i pui b postions zd \u2014\u2014 EE Investment, bought and sold by .- mantiota 5 par cents, Ÿ OT = NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.nian Mann ae 20; Apr au Cistrl Chicago spécial: \u201cConditions of grow- I PATEION.\u2018 oy ; CA Fe À ily EH A \u20ac y MAY, ing wheat,\u201d s ï iller, .R WILSON SLITH, Investment Broker, ar cou eran sh _ \u2018 Mesars.ing Sache ond Coo report 3s 13d; June, 3s 1d; July, 3s 11d; Aug.at he anys the Modern Millers FOR SALE BY .British Empire Buiiding, Nova Scotia 34 per cents.105 3 I ('e-days Cos 1cès In New York by |ust, 8s 24, during the week.and a j = R ven \u2014 : À.\u2018 4 , ; s ctual damage, if 1724 Notre Dame Street, Montreal.Quebec Provinces per cents vue, to ire anonureal manager, GC.D.Flour\u2014Dull; demand poor.St.Louïs as reported.from several states, Will B.E.MCGAL E, 2123 NOTRE DAME STREET.First-class Investments always on hand.do.4 per cents.1894 LS 10 _ = donk.: ub Street : ; fancy winter, 7s 3d.doubtiess be devaloped within the next Irsne): £tore\u2014-Next to Ealmoral Hotel.do.44 per cents.oo.105 = = March ii Peas\u2014Canadian, 4s 8d.week or two.Quite a number of re- g\u2014\u2014 MAIRE Moncton 4 per cents.\" 103 _ \u2014 Closing, _ , \u2014 ports refer to the effect of drought last \u2014 \u2014 Montreal 4 per cents.112 \u2014 \u2014 ou» The fo'lowing table gIves the movements fall, the:plañt being too weak to with- © \u20ac ra rrr BROKERS, HTC.PT Ey L ao oer cos resscnccnes 93 \u2014 \u2014 - 58 = 2 |of grain ana flour al given points: stand freezing and thawing weather.| S ou i AN Quebec City 4 per cents.192 = = Description, ws 1g : \u2018eceidts, Shipments Reports of winter Jalling \u2018are becoming _ A.FINLAYSON., A.GRANT.Toronto 5 per ts.\u2014 \u2014 L_ Chicago\u2014 W heat, vush.28,000 110,000 more numerous and are now receive ; WERE TAME do.2 per cent.(41%) 5 106 i \u2014_ Am.Cot, OL some sérecsss cu 1% aot 163 % orn.bush.Sora 155-000 from sections of the country that were EXPEDITION FINLAY SON & GR NT, » 0.4 per cents, (£873,915 9 \u2014_ _ : Sormeners serene, ats, bush.4,00 5,059 T5 1 ; 7 - lodge cnt, SL TD Sepia ge | EE EE a in es (os Custom House Brokers, per cent.1802.1 T .Sugar, esse.| .Y.\u2014wWhent, bush.17; 112 Winoouver 6.1892.= OT do, Pref, cueeieeiioiiins nan LL \u2026.100 [101$ Corn, bush.62,400 2 \u2014_\u2014 Forwarders and Warehouseme i Bei i Buffalo and Lake Huron 18 Atchison, Topeka & S.le.«| 165 15) 16 Oats, bush.oo.6,800 60 A message from Chicago stated that eis.M Business Being Quiet and the bonds (4 Lake Huron Ce BE Qe TL rence 1} 174 774 Flour, brs over ve 14,000 1,217 snow has been falling in Nebraska for German Journals and Politicians 418 to 417 St.Pat St, MONTREAL Canadian Pacific shares.56jxd \u2014 3 jolt.& 0 Cs frire Trreermeene ee 16) 164 16} \u201cFlour, sacks.:- 14,404 LL 40 hours \u2019 \u2018 .Bell el.037.P.D.Box 634, Tone Steady.de.preterence: stock + 3 Bay tate Gas.oT +o Bil 2 | Milwaukee Wheat.- 27.000 1,000 : Discuss the Project \u2014 0 - \u2018Ait, PAC.Lucos recense use sens euesaus Seas .Coin.PRE : 5,000 care mm \u2019 * qe nor morgage bonds.117 1 N.Y.C.and Hudson, aan sttess anses | 9T4/ 98 Toledo-Wheat.\u2026.dees 2,600 3.000 Mr.John McKergow, Mr.A.W.Grant SE LL LE 105 _ _ Glereland C.and St.L.= So 20 St.Louis\u2014Wheat.\u2026.\u2026.au 15.000 and Mr.P.W.McLagan, representing = WW WW a0VAL ELECTRIC SUBSCRIPTID Grand Boa branch bonds 113 2 - Cles, & Ohio Sans = oa 53 a ie Wheat.25.000 23.000 the putter and Sheese Assocation of Diverse Views as to England's Real I | ARREN nada .covamceusensaeuss jen done, sou 1 : ; Cy : : : = 5 i NS, Sock ur reference.ll af - = Dist.& C, Wa ccccene ne esrecs welll 187 184] 183 Crain.eal feature of the situa Ga to interview the acting Minister of Motive PÉTEMPLE BUILDING, TRLEPHONE 2363, do.second do.9 i Z| Den Be ltio G pret ool 464 ds a don fon oùts Lt present seems to bo AgTiulture on the cheese branding ques- ° ACCOUNTANT æ TRUSTER { do.third do.124 tr - od a ep : yO EEE tion.The branding of cheese is approi- Special attention paid to auditing the books, ni a do.guaranteed.ees 46 : \u2014 Date w.vannes at ne QE - 4611162 the large deliveries.To-day there were çà of, but the delegation, will make fobjec- clcsing entries and statements of joint stock Duluth Earnings Increase\u2014Northern do.JGrand Trunk) 5 per 1283 do.pref | 54 over 19,030 bushels in by both railroads, {jon to several conditions of the brand- Berlin, March 16.\u2014The proposed Sou vorapanies, te Bank A eb.stock.241 _ -\u2014 \" Là ; î |, ; \u2019 , = = \" Moneys kept in separate n eo na ., N.Y.Lake lr 3 and while dealers are looking for a bill proposed.DE , Tus oneys Xep Sep Pacific Takes a Slump in London\u2014 ao.3 on Cont.debenture 8 = = eee oui|-:: smaller movement, the large receipts ne proposed.___ | dan expedition of the British Govern- Seunts and carefully administered.Canadian Securities, do.(Great Western) 5 per Gan Gas NE 302 Set 33% have already lasted much longer than The following gentlemen were intrc- Ment excites a vast deal of attention and Loans Negotiated Minneapolis.St Bok and 13 | Hocking Valley.16 174 was generally anticipated.The local duced on Change to-day by Mr.Robert comment in political circles and in the = Sault Ste.Marie 4 p.c.jersey Donal.srrececes EN os market remains unchanged, the tone be- Bickerdike: = F- J.Deane, Mr.F W, press here.The German newspapers, in PROFESSIONAL CARDS.PTT Monday, March 16.nds er enr 08 = 7 Louis & NASM.sssesssernennreerrins| 523] 524] 528 IDG steady.The demand is small and Henbach, wnipeg, Mr.G.T.TrooP commenting upon the proposed Egyptian tore SN evar : New Bravswiok first mort- 115 î _ fake Krie and Western.2010100 | 268 sat Sat even at inside prices very fow buyers cun 2nd Mr.RH.L.Chipman, of Halifax.Mr.advance to Dongala.still Sho oe BARRISTERS NOTARIES ETO pments of a gtart- Fags DORE.opr ET FT| \"do, pret.vec D.TI 72 be found.As a rule holders are askine: F- K.Bishop, of St.John, was also à visi- gala, W.an intense ling nature in the local stock market: One Dentare stock.10% = \u2014 Lake Shore.aesseccacess vues - |L£7 [149 D den d ; for No.2 oats, and 201c | tot.ii, pre 4, hatred for England.(GIBBONS, MULKERN & HARPER\" ; ae à ecs .\u2014 © Mich, Cent.evens eres .| 94 95 Jac and over ce , VU EC Ce The National Zeitung, for instance BARRIBTERS, SOLICITORS, &Cs to-day, trading in all stocks being lmi- (do.debenture stock.138} Manhattan flevased xd 103ÿ|1034/1037 for No.1.In the west there is said to : ; rh ; ted and the tone about steady.It seems St.lawrence and Ottawa Missouri PAC.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.Li 23%| 234) 23% be ve , little doing at the decline, wwhite Cable advices to the Board of Trade Booins the idea that sne will do anything Ofice~Cor.Richmond and Carling Streets, be th ne seems first mortgage bonds.103 1 7 Nor.Aur.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.cecuassonn na) Of OY 54 ts La held at 30c north and v to-day said: Wheat off coast, quiet and to help Italy in the straits into which LONDON, OND to be the general impression that the Nat.Lend LL.LL EU J 233] 244] 244 C8TS Den de \\ dull WEST steady: on passage, nominally unchang- that unfortunate power has come in Gzo.C.Grpsons, Q.C., P.MULKERN market is tending towards a recovery, NEW YORK GOSSIP.do.pref = eee venue 86 562 87} ffeights.Mixed are du ond unchanged.ed.Maize off coast, quiet; on passage, Africa, and hints that England will ac- FRED.F.HARPER.but unless the banks become a little J.§.Bache & Co, New York, wire PE rer re ieol 10 og (58 Canadian wheat ATLes are Pretty ull.English country markets, quiet.Quire Cassala as a result of the campaign.|__| more disposed to lend out mo there nef e INVEN ET EN Di |e2|.2.: (quiet at present with the demand very Liverpopl\u2014Wheat on spot, dull; futures Most of the newspapers here regard the | : ; ney, there -neir local manager, C.D.Monk, 8% Non.Pacs NT ail 2/2 slow.steady, at 5s bd March, April, May, Dongola movement as\u2019 a clever move on ((HRYSLER & LEWIS, is scarcely any likelihood of a substan- \u2018ollows: AO PTE s00cue0aams ce | 124| 124| 128 In peas there ig little or nothing doing June and July.Maize on spot, firm; England's part to silence clamor onthe BARRISTERS, SOLIC\"TORS, ETC.\u2018 SUPREME tial movement in this direction.It quust The third mortgage bond holders of Ç:%,N- Wa +.-prrsenenente sean 00e ees 1034 103¢ and prices are unaltered.(Cana\u201clan pràs futures firm, at 2s 11 3-4d March, 3s B8YPtian question, and to offer an COURT D ; gage 1! St.Paul, Minn, & Omaha,.- 393| 404 ; ; 3 ; AT answer to Franc d all those wh AND DEPARTMENTAL AGENTS.not be gathered from this.however, that N.P.are very much disappointed.They N'Y.0.& W.vcviueuenn.ns seen.14g] 144 in Liverpool are still quoted at 4s 8d.0 1-20.April, 3s 1d May, 3s 11-43 Jump, poo rance and all 110Se Who press OTTAWA, CANADA, funds are by any means scarce, as a think they have been sacrificed for bene- Bue.oll ES 2 ® 54 Wheat, No.1 hard.Jeera 3s 1 2-44 Jaiy and os 2 es August Jin ; or Jor the evacuation of Egypt for years , > .i 1s.e ew securities il & Reading, 000000000000 114} 145] 11 eat, No,2 hard.ares sance Nominal.neapoiis fir akers flour, 18s, Frenc .good many brokers are still of the opin- hn os Consors the Dopo liens, 60 bid C R.1,& PL.TUE] 714{ 718 Corn, duty paid.aa neee ne Semipal.{country markets, quiet.\u2018 > .The Vossische Zeitung thinks that no- H: CHRYSLER, Q.C.J, TrAvERS LEWIS.ion that there is quite enough to 80 |for the general liens, and 30 did for Nix: suk ot bos fous, par 5 ibs.in ren se (2 oe _ body is better fitted for the task of the J BITCH & PRINGLE, eround on a \u201cpinch.\u201d new preferred stock when issued.: N Ye.St; - 12) 14° Oats\u2014_Ontario No.1 in store.3r4c to s0te CANADIAN GRAIN IN ENGLAD.PO ee prime Soudan than England A BARR TERRE, ATTORNEYS-AT-TAVE, SOLIOTIORS \u2014\u2014 The Senate joint resolutions direct- C.Mil St.P._.T71 Bye, No, 2.ivviivennirineennns .Nominal.\u2014_\u2014 oiniscne seltung, speaxin IN CHANG PVE: Business to-day, that is at least what Ing the Secretary of Agriculture to Ic .A, Dk N, Mich.ail Barley, feed.o .are to 30 SEVERAL GOOD SIZED SALES OF MANITOBA Hirougn the inspiration of the Foreign HRY, i, TO little there was, was fairly well, dis- Purchase and distribute seeds, bulbs, etc | geni Coal and [rom 211 1 2200 lege) BE BATON.cat per buR EE Ct 306 to 400 WHEAT.pce, {hinks that England has delayed _Jamzs Lxrros, 9,0, R.A, PRINGLE, tributed in the most active list, with as has been done in preceding Leurs, Union Pac.wersreserooris iil Ta] 13 1h moenf perbush.ooo oo 30 2 A Sheaking of the grain trade on the Lic Proposed expedition too long, and she : no stock receiving any marked atten- has become a law without the Presi- Western Union Tel, -.enon 85% 8% 85% cay or There a Jue on oo present other side L.Norman & CD.under date lt Dod gear difficulty now in crushing M ¢LEOD STEWART, lon.Str i - dent\u2019s signature.abash.sressossesssccnscccocmecj eee) OF 7 Pé : F7 pence f Marc I writer SW Gimini : lanes.: ' tion Str set Railway sold a fraction bet- ns en statement for the dopref- NII NEE! Oe 18 184 and trade runs along in pretty much the ore March and, write: With fiminish- BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY, Eto, week\u2019s closing figures.Toronto Rail- Month o: January shows gross increase Wheeling and Lake Krie.108 1 10s same groove, Prices.are unchanged.0 relatively oll shipments Te Barone .DiSOBEYED ORDERS; Domrame court, Parliamentary and + 3,2 È Lg : 5 a aura usec cena ns sec case 0j\"; 2 F ; seht ra) eres 3, 24.A 4 h a 2 ; a ; .way was hammered a little.declining Pie net increase BLL | give tne Féniher comprenne || or) Poe EE 1:78 to 0 tone is firm and sellers show.no sigh of Harry Humphries, coachmap for ex-Al.THE MOLSONS BANK CHAMBERS, from 771-4 in the morning to 761-4 in e overnor as eci (he Raines eather pref.sous 6 esrcune ne! 11 613) 62% Superfine.oi: SENS \u201c 0.00 to 0.00 giving way, but buyers continue James, was a prisoner before tbe Record- Ottawa, Ont, the afternoon.mayors po.cities a hearing on alr BEXtra, bags.coeereeeirvnnions 1.75 to 1.55 apathetic.In London, English wheat e's Court yesterday.On Saturday afer Cable was neglected, but Postal was firmer, 50 shares changing hands at 86 1-2.Pacific came fractionally higher from London, and was better here, closing at 57 asked and BS 3-4.A small block sold at £6.The only thing in Cottons was a sale o: 5 Montreal, in the morning at 128 \u2018and $500 Colored Cotton Bonds in the afternoon at 99, a decline from tha last sale.As far as actual business is concerned Duluth has been: rather in the hack- ground lately, but the earnings continue to show good Increases.The gross for the fourth week in February was $40,765, against §31,884 for the week previous and $30,598 for the corresponding week last Year.The earnings from January 1st to the 4th week in February, were $277.- 936, against $239,397, an increase of $28,- £39.Of the new issue of Royal Electric, amounting to 2,500 shares, a total of 2,440 shares have been subscribed, equal int amount to $244,000.The first call of 20 per cent.on the first of March.brought out exactly 64 1-2 per cent.showing that the subscribers were anxious to take advantage of the interest.Montreal Street Railway earnings on Saturday were $3,199.34 and on Sunday $2,374.86, increases of $518.16 and $322.47 respectively.vee x Local call pans Sto § 1-2 per cent.A report frbm Toronto this afternoon quoted the following prices on the stock exchange there: Gas, 199 asked, 193 bid; Telegraph, 126 asked, 1256 bid; Pacific, 55 1-4 asked, 55 1-2 bid; /Fdreont'o, Electric, 1387 asked, 134 bid; General Electric, T0 asked, 60 bid; Cable, 162 1-4 asked, 161 7-82 bid; Telephone, 158 wasked, 156 1-3 bid; Montreal Street Railway, 219 asked, 217 1-2 bld; Toronto Street Railway, 16 7-3 asked, T6 1-2 bid._ \u201cConsols clean of the dividend have been, equal to over 110 cum.div, and the market is as firm about the record price as if the quotation were points lower,\u201d writes an English authority.\u2018¢ \u2018Bears\u2019 are not so courageous in this department as they have been at lower prices, and the operation more in favor than out- and-out selling is just now the giving of money for the, right to put stock.But speculation, either by options or by selling, is on a very small scale.Business in the market is a large one, nevertheless, because there is a good deal of shifting going on; but as fast as 'stork tomes to market\u2019 from holders tit is absorbed.\u201d Cs 1.tu Closing prices of lekding local stocks to-day and last Monday are as follows: enr\u2014\u2014 pag To- Last day.Monday, Street Railway.earesenccss 2182 220 Toronto Railway.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.763 77% Postal.oii iii 86% 85 Pacific.riearians Less ssnaa us 56 554 LE RS RES 203% 203% The highest, towest and closing prices, total sales and net changes from Satur- dey s closing prices for actual sales in the local market were as followsi MORNING BOARD.Bala.High.Low, Close.0 Postal.a.864 86 86 60 Toronto Ry.774 ot LL 82 Telegraph .165 165 165 125 Mont, Street Ry.218% 2182 218 2 Gas.anse us Less 2035 2033 203 35 Commerce,.135% 27 Bank of Montreal.219° 219 219 20 Merchants Bank., 1653 .165 16 5 Montreal Cotton.128 2 B.of B, N.A.109% AFTERNOON BOARD, Balcs, High.Low.Close.50 Toronto Railway.76} 7 76} 1» Facile Come 56 56 53 ank of Commerce 135} 135% 135% $500 Col.Cot.Bonds.9 99 99 ostal.864 864 86 2% Royal Electric.120° 190 10 [ CANADIAN SECURITIES.| ; Sn eng THE TENDENCY IN LONDON WAS GENERALLY UPWARD.\u201cIn Canadian securities prices show few changes compared with a week ago, end in the majority of instances they ére upward,\u201d says the London Cana- dlan Gazette.\u2018\u2018The public demand for first-class investments has continued Strong, and Dominion of Canada 5 per tents.are quoted 2 better, and Nova Scotia; 3 1-2 per cents.3, while in muni- Cipal fssues three Toronto loans are 1 higher.With regard to railways, both the leading companies have issued their working statements for January, he Canadian Pacific Showing an in- trease in net earnings of $149,000, and he Grand Trunk of £11,778.On the news from America Canadian Pacific Shares \u201cfell to very nearly 55; but the Working statement brought about a re- Covery, and 56 1-4 is now the current Price, after deducting the dividend of 1 1-2 per cent.payable on April 1, showing a drop of 3-4 for the week, while the preference stock has been bought and is 1-2 better, and the first mortgage nds and the Algoma branch bonds are Tespectively 1 gid 2 up.Grand Trunk Stocks have fluctuated within very nar- Tow limits, and on balance show a frifling advance.v The following are the prices of the Bill on Wednesday morning.It looks as ii the insiders were out of G.E., and don\u2019t look as if they will take hcld again until it sells lower.The United States Government has called upon all depository banks here to turn over all giold balarf®e held by them on bond account.This action by the Government will probably make money higher.While both B.& O.and N.P.\u2019s will ultimately reach a very much lower level, both are a buy for! a turn off a couple of points on any further dip.If the bears continue to sell St.Paul and B.Q.they will surely get their skins badly tanned.Long stocks are not will advance rapidly this spring.The manipulation of Tobacco contemplates putting the stock to 90, but buy on advancing market.Bull Gas moderate ly.The shorts will have to cover, THE DAY IN WALL STREET.New York, March 16.\u2014The Evening Post says: There was no revival of activity in to-day\u2019s market, nor was there any occasion for it.Only three new developments had any influence, even indirect, on the dull and lifeless market.The Northern Pacific re-organization plan published this morning, had very logical effect of advancing prices of all the corporation bonds, notably the Consolidated Fives, which rose several poiuts while the shares declined again, the pro ferred touching a price six points below that of a week ago.Against) this unfavorable influence stood the renewed weakness in foreign exchange.All that resulted in the general stock market by way eof reflection was an attempt to force up again a few of the industrial stocks.This was, as usual; a sign of absolute dullness elsewhere; in the standard shares the only changes were fractional recessions; and the market\u2019s closing was featureless, MONTREAL STOCK EXCHANGE, The closing prices on the local stock exchange to-day were reported as follows by Chas.Meredith & Co., St.Francois Xavier Street, Montreal : Mar.16,[ Mar.14.® amma emsommliomas DXEORIPTION, | \u201csv Canadian Pacific Railway.| 57 553} 56 55! Do do Land Bonds|.!.1 56 = p vere Oommercial Cable Co .163 162 Montreal Telegraph Co., .\u2026.|170 |165 Rich and Ont.Nav, Co.\u2026 | 95 86 924| 85 Montreal Street Railway./218} 2174;219 |2183 Toronto Street Ry.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.76ji 764| 774| 764 Montrea, GasCo.,.«12031 203 1204312034 Bell Telephone Co,, 1584 155 |158#155 toyal Electric Co.125 !116 |.|.\u2026.Bank of Montreal \u2014 219 218%|219 2184 Ontario Bank .1 76/1.La Banque du Peuple \u2018105 |.|1043 Molsong Bank, .180 173 1177 173 Bank of Toronto .ve.+250 1239 1250 [239 Jacques Cartier.168 164 |.].Merchants .ocouevuus acces 165 163 163 (164 Merchants\u2019 Bk, ol HL'X.\u2026.|-.-/.|1665 [163 Eastern Townshins.a .\u2026.l.\u2026.Let.QUEDEC L.c.00000000 socosssccovo |evrefenco luc euteses Nationals.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.sceau snase -.-|.| 75 70 Union.vLevasessesscecsonuse 100 |.j100 |.Commerce .\u2026.\u2026\u2026s\u2026.vavsese 136 l135ä|.|.\u2026.Ville Marie 0.100 | 7241100 724 Hochelaga\u2026 .\u2026.|127 122 {126 {121 Ottawa Bank.Cibevaraens ceeelinne]oeni]enns Intercolonial Coal Co., .30 |.] 401 25 Do Preferred Stock,.| 75 |.] 75 ].North Vest Land pfd .50 |.1 50 ].Champl and St.Law.Bonds.|.JL.Montreal Cotton Co.,.Canada Colored Cotton Co.[.85 60 65 60 0 do Bonds.994: 95 [100 99 Merchants Mf'g Co.Lee (140 |.[140 |.Dominion: Cotton Co.,.|[ 95 90 95 9 Do do Bonds,.sous.f.cul.u06 Montreal Loan and Mort.Co.[.-|.|.].Ottawa Street RV.\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.Ottawa EleciricCo.veevvivasadd anf].LL Diamond Glass Co.148 |.j148 |.Western Loan & Trust, \u2026.1.04.J.|.LONDON STOCK MARKET.Messrs.MacDougall Bros., stock brokers, G9 St.Francois Xavier Street, were cabled the closing prices of American stocks in London as follows ; B1OCKS.March [March [March 16.14.13.Atchison.anavacr ss se fesse ee 164 [.Canadian Pacific xd.| 57} 57 574 Com, Cable.eer .Grand Trunk ist.do do 2nd.Brie.do 2nd : Illinois Central, .-.98% 983 994 Louisville and Nashville) 53; 53% 54g Lake Shore.\u2026esssose|e++ss0rejhe secs ee free ue e Northern Pacific.vo) 124 Lod Ll New York Central .1004 100 100} Ontario and Western.|.J.coufienn.os Reading.co0neus 158 ja.6% St.Paul.78% 78% 79 Union Pacific.\u2018ee TE |eeeriiideniinns Wabash pfd .evvneiinne]onens sesfecer sera face nc 00 Bank rate.cre sieaes 2 2 2 THE LONDON SITUATION New, York, March 16.\u2014The Evening Posts special financial cablegram: Lon- don\u2014The stock markets were very quiet us a whole to-day, except for a revival of the demand for certain deep level South African properties.The publica: tion of the details of the Northern Pacific plan has been attended with à drop of about $3 in the preferred stock, while certain of the bonds have moved Gg a And the Market Again.Went Off coming out, and both B.Q.and St.Paul | CANADIAN GRAIN IN ENGLAND, Visible Shows a Fair Decrease\u2014Heard on \u2019Change\u2014Cattle Markets Rather Quiet.Tre .Monday, March 16.\u201cThe liquidation by longs in wheat continued to-day, resulting in a weak and lower market,\u201d said J.S.Bache & Co.\u2019s Chicago letter.\u2018\u2018The English visible increased 34,000 bush and thy amount on passage 560,000 bush.The world's shipments were small, 6,570,000 bush.Cables quoted foreign markets weak and lower, Clearances wheat and flour very small, 110,000 bush.The Northwest were sellers of July wheat.St.Louis sold wheat freely en favorable crop prospects.A cable from Rosario Argentine, says stocks light.Millers Raying more than export values.Shipments falling off.Market seems to us to lack speculative support.We do not anticipate any material decline, and Te- gard wheateas again à conservtive purchase.\u201cCoarse grains were fairly active, with an easy undertone.There was considerable selling by scattered longs in corn, and the bears were quite active.\u201cProvisions opened lower on 10,000 hogs more than expected, and ruled very dull all day.Packers were not trading.Market showed strength all through the decline in wheat, and closed steady.\u201d The Northwestern Miller publishes the following: *It is now becoming apparent that farmers in Illinois, Missouri and Kansas held back comparatively a large proportion of their stock of wheat this season, firmly in the belief that wheat Would reach a higher figure when \u2018the crop of the Northwest was exhausted.- The elasticity of this erop in springing into the receipts day after day has had the effect of loosening wheat in farmers* hands materially.\u201d \u201c Willard, of Chicago, in discussing the break in wheat on Saturday, said: \u201cIt goes without saying that there is no cause for the decline except the fact that holders have grown weary and sold out.It generally happens that when the mass of speculators let ga the bottom is not far away.\u2018The wheat fields are now frozen hard, but the warm weather will come in a few days, and then it will ba more definitely known whether serious crop damage has occurred or not.If the reports now being received should be confirmed it carn hardly fail to have ita effect on prices.We are approaching the time when the actual condition of the plant wilt be known and \u2018the bullish features which are constantly accumus lating will then doublless receive tha attention they deserve.\u201d Toronto, March 16.\u2014Thke market is quiet.Flour dull, prices nominal at $3.50 to $3.60 for straight rollers.Bran, cars of bran offer west at $10.75 and.shorts at $12 to $12.50.Y/heat quiet; white sold outside at 79¢, and No.1 is 85c bid spot Toronto: five thousand bu.of No.1 hard offered at 75¢ North Bay; No.1 Northern offered at 75¢ North Bay and No.1 frosted at 70c Sarnia, grinding in transit, without bids; a sample lot offered outside at 33e without bidk Oats quiet, prices stfady, sales of white outside at 22%c and 22%c west, and of mixed at 22c.Peas steady, sales outside at 50e.Buckwheat dull, prices nominal at 31c to 32e.Oatmeal quiet, prices easy at $2.90 and tradi.Corn 1 quiet, prices unchanged at 32c to 82ic outside.Rye dull, cars quoted at 45¢ outside.Milwaukee=Closing-594e cash; 62ic May._ Duluth~Closing\u2014No.1 Northern, 59¢ Match, 633c May; No.1 hard, 6c cash.Toledo-Closing+69c cash, 69e May.St.Louis\u2014Closing-5sc cash, 59c May.\u2018 New.York\u2014Closing\u2014Wheat, T13c March; 693c May, 694c July; corn 38¢ March, 35§c May, 36%c July.Liverpool, March 16.\u20144.15 p.m.- Wheat\u2014 Spot, dull; demand, poor.No.2 red winter, 38 6d; No.2 red spring, stocks exhausted; No.1'hard Manitoha, 5s 54d; No.1 California, 5s 6d.Futures opened steady, with near and distant positions 3d lower; closed easy with | near and distant positions 3d lower, Strong bakers\u2019, Man., best brands.0.00 to 4.12 Spring patents, Man.420 to 4.25 Winter patents, Ont\u2026.\u2026.\u20260.4,20 to 4,25 Meal\u2014The market is quiet and what little business there is doing is purely jobbing in character.Prices in syr- pathy with the rather easier tone of the market for bats are barely steady.Rolled, per bbl.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026., $3.00 to 83.10 Rolled, per bag.FUN 1.50 to 1.60 Standard, per brl.seuvesseucrs 3.10 to 0.0% Standard, verbag.ass.1.55 to 0.00 Granulated, perbri,.c.oue 3.10 Lo 3.20 Granulated, per bag.«.cnt 1.50 to 1.60 Feed\u2014Reports to-day indicated only a few cars of feed sold but the market is in gopd shape and millers are well satisfied with the brisk business put through last week.Prices are steady.There is little or nothing doing in Mauille.¥ 5.814,50 to $15.00 Brap, Manitoba.0.0 Bran, Ontario 5% ; + 00.00 to 15.05 SHOTtS.2.408 20000000 8 .16.00 to 00.0 « 19.00 to 20,0 Mouilie.:.\u2026.SG aes .CHICAGO MARKETS.\u2018Messrs.J.S.Bachd «& Co.report.the following quotations from Chicago: March 16.Op'g High.Low, Close Wheat.Dec.|.bec nn00 Jancnos evanan May.| 624-4;7625-3 613-2 024 B July.[ 63% 4634 + 621-8 Corn .Oct.[ix dance Jet Ÿ + Jereuxe fay.\\ 29 =11297 294 294-8 July .]:308 \u201c1°308-# 304 304- Oats.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.JUlF.0fjp 12 ooo fein fen, iay.| 20} | 204 204-+ July.| 204-8] 203-8 204 20% Pork .[S153] HA POS UR UR Jan.|.lL.Loo eee, May 975977 {972 975 July 9 92-4992 |992 |992 Lard .[37c1 +1 790 FURPUINS FUSRUDI FR FA May.} 5 42155 42 540 542 July.|5 55B},6.51 5 65-7] 5 63-7 Short Ribs.Ont.|.\u2026.Eva alana foes May\u2026.| 520] 522 520 [à 20-2 July.15351535 1532 |5 328 LIVERPOUL PRICES.1 March 16.March 14, oN .8.do \u201cs.dà.js.de 8 d.Spring wheab.| 5 5 05 6| 5 5 to 5 6 Red winter wbt! 5 6 to5 7] 5 6 to 5 7 No.1 Cali.wh't| 5 6 tod 5 6 tod 7 OFN ss 2.000200.2 11: 2 114 Peas.a., i 8 Pork.30 0 50 0 Lard.rere 27 0 27 0 Bacon essaesacess 125 Gto 27 0 25 6 to 27 © Talow.20 3 \u201c 120 6 Cheese,.43 0 .42 0 RECEIPTS IN MONTREAL G.T.R.C.P.R.TiL 1,350 2001 3331 700 een 700 7,500 12,000 19,500 >.1,668 1,608 1,050 3,400 4,450 121 125 216 £ &1 251 362 286 200 486 Apples .368 cere 368 PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS.SOME DOUBT ABOUT THE CHEESE CABLE QUOTATION TO-DAY.The cheese cable received by the Board of Trade to-day quoted cheese 1s higher, but in view of the fact that the change is quite ouf of keeping With the recent course of the market and that other cables quote the old figure, it is evidently & mistake.The press cable said: Cheese \u2014Quiet, demand, poor; Finest American white and colored, 42s.Butter\u2014Finest United States, 8s; gdod, 55s.The spot market keeps iff the same old rut.It was stated to-day that 900 boxes of fall Ingarsolls changed hands at a- figure much lower than has yet been quoted and apart from this nothing has been done.Under date of March 7th Hodgson Bros.\u201d Liverpool circulay says: \u201cHolders have reduced their price 1s per cwt: this week, which has brought on an improvement in the demand.The market closes with & steady feeling at our quotations.We quote to-day finest September-Octoter make 43s to 44s per cwt., and all grades under this class at 20s to 85s as in quality'and flavor.\u201d Butter\u2014The market failed to show anything new to-day, prices rembinilns as formerly.The range is about as follows: Creamery, 2lc to 22c; Townships, 18c to 20c, new 2ic; western, 12c to lic.Eggs\u2014\u2014A fair business is passing at the old prices.Firovisions\u2014Although dealers are inclined to lcok forward to some improvement, the market at present is slow.Canaca eriort cut mess, per brl $60,00 Lo $15.00 Canada short cut clear.00.00 to 14,50 Beef, extra mess.per brl.L0.C0 to 00.00 Beet.late, per tierce 3C0lks.00,00 to 00.00 Hang, city cured, per it.0.08% to 0.09% Bacon, perio.0.se0sve0 0.09 to 0.10 Lard, pure Canadian, per tb.0.07} to 0.08% Trrd, com.refined per lb.0052 to N.06 HEARD ON.'CHANGE.WiIAT THE GRAIN AND FLOUR MEN TALKING ABOUT.Local @rain traders are still receiving news from the Argentine and the latest is from Rosario, which states that stocks are light.\u2014u\u2014eone vue ARE News from Chicago to-day noted extensive liquidation in wheat, principally due to lower cable advices.,( Millers stated that things were very quiet in Manitoba country markets today with the average price paid slightly below Saturday\u2019s.Deliveries were also somewhat smaller.An early message from Chicago said: faits to attract buyers, the prices asked being still relatively high.Foreign wheat on the spot is steady, but quiat, and there is very little change in values compared with last week.Californians afioat or for prompt shipment are held at 28s 6d, with buyers at 28s.La Platas are not freely offered, but they do not meet much attention.Americans: Red winters are not offering.it Hard Manitobas: A parcel just arrive ed sold to-dny at 26s 6d., and 26s 71-2¢ was pala for 2,009 quarters afloat; Hard Duluth arrived 26s 9d paid, afloat 27s asked; March, 27s 3 sellers.Barley: Quiet and meeting with very little attention; CdepsarNicosaieff parcels prompt 16s 9d sellers, with buyers at 163 3d Maize: Steady; Odessa afloat, 17s asked, 16s 64 bid; American mixed, on passage, 1483 1 1-2d paid.Oats om the spot are 83 dearer on the week withya fair trade; for shipment, there is not much doing oww ing to high prices asked.Peas: Steady; white Canadians, April-May, 24s 9d sellers.\" i : 1014 \u2019 « WHEAT IN SIGHT: \"°° AMERICAN AND CANADIAN VISIBLE SHOWS A | GOOD DECREASE, j There was a decrease of 413,000 bush \u2018 in the United States and Canadian visible supply to-day more than was generally expected.The amount on passage to the United Kingdom increased 160,000 bush, however, and the amount on passage to the continent 400,000 bu.making an increase of 147,000 bush in the total quantity in sight.Compared with the corresponding period of last year, the present total shows a decrease of 22,671,000 bush.1 Following is the; comparative statement \u2018of the amount of wheat im sight, as compiled by the Board of Trade: Mar, 14, 96.Mar, 7, 96.Mar, 16,95.Visible supply U.: S.and Canada.62,123,000 62,536,000 76,774,000 On passage to KK.oo.21,520,000 21,360,000 29,520,000 On passage tocon- ; tinent.7,440,000 7,040,000 7,360,000 Total in sight.91,083,000 90,936,000 113,754,000 LIVE STOCK.\u20ac NO MATERIAL CHANGE IN CABLE ADVICES FROM ENGLAND.SHIPMENTS OF CATTLE BY THIS WEEK'S STEAMERS.Monday, March 16.Cables from the other side to-day quoted cattle at 6d, which was the figur4 realized in London last week.Sheep were quoted firm.i À The Mongolian, sailing from Portland this week, takes about 280 head of cattle, 200 of which are supposed to be distillery fed.There are also 115 head of horses, but no sheep.The Lake Superior, from St.John, takes 350 head of cattle and a few sheep and horses.Mr.Ironside and Williams & Hall are the shippers.At the Bast Bnd Abattoir to-day there were about 500 head of butchers\u2019 cattle; 159 calves and a few sheep and lambs.The attendance of butchers was fair, but trade on the whole wag slow, and prices as a rule favored bifyers.The best cat tle spld at from 3 1-2¢ to nearly 4c pen ib.; pretty good animals sold at from 2 3-40 to 31-4c do.; common stock and rough; bulls sold at from 20 to 2 3-4c per ib.TH is provable that a considerable number will not be sold to-day.The calves sold fairly well; four of the best were sold for $44, and the others sold at from $2 to 39 each.The few sheep that were sold brought from 3c to 31-4c per 1b.; the} spring lambs sold af fromy $3 tol $7 each, but some of them ought to have been kept with their dams for another fort night.Fat hogs, sell at about 4¢ per lb.There were about 200 head of hogs at the Point, prices ranging from $4 to $4.10, live weight.TELEGRAPHIO MARKETS.New York, March 16.\u2014Flour\u2014Riecelpts, 24,500 bbls; exports, 1,200 bbls; sales, 8,- 900 packages.< .Wheat\u2014Recelpts, 10,200 bu; exports, 0 - 100 bu; sales, 1,875,000 bu; futures, 80,00) bu spot.Spot weak and lower; No.1 northern, 72 1-8¢, {£.o.b., aflcat; No.1 hard, T4 5-82, f.0.b.afloat.No.2rcd March, 70 T7-8c to 711-2c, closed.T1 1-£e; May, 69: wo 69 2-1c, closed.69 5-80; June, 68 E-3c to 69.5-16c, clozed 63c; July, 68 9-16: to 69 1-4c, closed, 68 T-8c.Eorn\u2014Receipts, 62,40) bu; sales, 385,000 bu futures; 4030 bu spot.Epot inactive; No.2, 35 5-8c; gleamer mixed, 88 1-Zc, delivered.March closed 38c; May, 55 \u20ac-8c to 35 5-8c, closed 35 5-8c; June closed.36c; July, 35 2-3: to 56 1-2c, ckosgd 33 \"1-20.Oats\u2014Receipts, 133,800 bush.; exports, 10) bush.; sales, 23,000 Dusi.; futures, 42,00) bush.spot.Spot dull; No.2, 25¢ to 254c; No.2, delivered, 26c: No.3, 24¢; No.2 white, 27; No.3 white, 25%c; track, white, 26c to 29e, Closed 25c¢; May, 245e to 25c, closed 241c.Butter\u2014Steady; western creamery, 12c to 22c; do.factory, 9c to 124c: Elgins, 22¢; imitation creamery, 113ce to 166; State dairy, 11e to 20c.Cheese\u2014Quiet; large, 6e to 104c* smail, 6c to 10%c; part skims, 8c to Bic; full | shims, 2c to 2ic, noon he liad taken his empléyerls sleigh and team out td drive Miss James to the House of a friend.Bcfora departing Mrs.James told Lim to return at as early ap hour as possible in order to take her later in the afternoon to the same place.He returned quickly enough, but stayed just sufficiently log enough! to doff bis livery and put on private clothes.He tlien drove away with the team, called on bis swestiheart ana treated Her to a duwve around thd own.communicated with Debective Lafontsive.He and Constable Suiliergill started oat on tbe trail amd gob Humphries and the mit ing property on Skexbrooke Street, The animals were in a Arightfully exhausted state, Tie Recorder, for abusing the horses, fined bim $20 or tro months, and for dis one month FORTY WERE KILLED.Result of the Explosion on the Steam ship Matadi.Matadi, which sailed from Sierra Leone on February §, has been totally destroyed at Boma by an explosion of gun-powder.Some of her passengers and crew werg saved.but many are missing.London, March 15.\u2014The whole fore part of the Matadi was blown into the hair gd forty persons were killed, including a missionary, named Hawk, and his wife.BRITISH BI-METALLISTS The ChanceHor of the Exchequer Explains His Position.London, March 16.=The Times says this morning, that Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has explained that he only.spoke for lbhim4 self, and that it did not pledge the Government when he pledged himself to the monometallists to accept the mono- metallic amendment of Mr.MacLean to the Whiteley\u2019s bi-metallic motion.THE CAPE COLONY An Important Scheme for Coast Defence Formulated.a London; March 16.\u2014The Standard an- noumnces that Admiral Rawson, commander of the Cape Colony Station, and Gen.Goodenough, commander of the British forees in Cape Colony; are formulating an important scheme for coast deence in South.Africa, Postage Stamps Missing.Tdronto, March 16.\u2014A packuge containing about fifty dollars\u2019 worth of postage stamps has mysteriously disappeared, and the pos tal awthorilies are Iaoking for it.Last Friday week a mail train pulled oub from the Union station im charge of Mail Clerk Sloan, who Had among other mail matter.a.package of postage stamps fort Barrie post office.It disappeared somewhere on the road.The theory is that the Stamps were stolen at one of the wayside stations whim Mr, Eloan was busy giving oh the mail by some one familiar with the mail car and its arrangements.Postmaster Henderson, of Barrie, was in the city to-day conferring with Inspector Swectram regarding the loss, A REPENTANT NIFSYLIST.Chicogo, March 16.\u2014According to the Tribune cne of the Russian Nibilidis concerned in tho assassination of Czar Alexander II.of Russia, kas appliel for a pardon; to the Russian Goverrment, offering, if {ke pardon is grantled, to juin the Russian ceciet ser vice and give the Government valuable information.The Tribe says tho game of the applicant ig ( rogor Krasmow, who, foi trelvo ycars las ved in Chicago under au assumed name, capfaliy protectui By his coghirymen.THE DANUBE RISING, London, March 16.\u2014The Daily News has a despatch from Vienna, which says that the Dunube and its tributaries are steadily rising, and alieady several towns along heir banks have been partly submerged.\u201cIt is feared,\u201d the despatch continues, \u2018that tte Prater bere will be flooded soon.Many fatalities are already reported.\u201d fSerions Street Car Accident.Madame \u2018Elizabeth Labranche, aged fifty-three, and residing at No.324 Notre Dame Street, Hochelaga, was the victim of a serious accident on Sunday affer- noon.In stepping from a street car, on the corner of Amherst and St.Catherine Streets, she slipped and feil, breaking her right arm, and receiving a severe shock.She was taken to the Notre Dame Hospital, where she lies in a very critical condition.The Empress of China.Yokohama, March 16.\u2014S.S.Empress of China arrived from Vancouver at 7.30 a.m.Monday, 16tk, Mr, James; missing his coachman and team, obeying Hig master\u2019s orders, another $10 or |A WOMAN London, March 16.\u2014The British steamer | consent of the Shareholders of the F.T.COSTELLO, Barrister, Solicitor, Etc., ALEXANDRIA, ONT, e Moving Time Is usually a time of trouble.Wa take all this trouble on ourselves when you give your order.We move furniture with dispatch and cheaply.Try us next time.King\u2019s City Express, Tel.565, 748 Craig Street CAN SAVE ENOUGH {fo Buy an Easter Bonnet by trading at any of our seven retail shops for one month.The very finest meats, the sweetest Butter, the freshest: Eggs at prices 10 per cent.te, 40 per cent.lower than other first class shops, The LAING ernst\u2019 Co.Ltd, Canadian Pacific Railway Company.NOTICE T¢ SHAREHOLDERS, The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of this Company for the election of Directors and the transaction of business generally will be held on Wednesday, the 1st day of April next, at the principal office of the Company, at Mont- } real, at 12 o\u2019clock noon.The meeting will be made special for the purpose of consenting ments made by the Directors of, the Com- .pany with the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway Compaity, the Canada Southern Railway Company, the Michigan Central Railroad Company and the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Corn- pany for the regulation and interchange of traffic passing between the company's raflway and the railways of the said other companies respectively, and for the division and apportionment of tolls, rates and charges in respect of sueh traffic ; and also of approvimg of an agreement for a lease to the company of a branch line to be constructed by the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Kaiiway Company between Hamilton and Toronto for the term of fifty years or less, according to circumstances, the rent being a percent age of the met earnings on the said branch \u2014the whole as set out in agreements which have been exeeuted, subject amongst other, things to the approval of His Excellent the Governor-in-Council, ag prescribed by the Railway Act of Canada, and to the an- adian Pacific Railway Company.The Common Stock Transfer Books of the Company will elose in Montreal and New York on Tuesday, March 8rd, and in London at 3 p.m.on Friday, February 21.The Preference Stock Books will close at 3 p.m.on Tuesday, March 10th, All books will be re-opened on Thursday, April 2nd.By order of the Board.CHAS.DRINKWATER, Secretary.Montreal, Feb.10th, 1886.Canadian Pacific Railway Company The undermentioned dividends have been declared : One and one-half per cent.on the Common Stock for the year 1895.Two per cent.on the Preference Stock for the half-year ended 8lst December, 1895.Warrants for the Common Stock dividend will be mailed on or about April 1st to shareholders of record at the closing of the books in New York and London respectively.The preference stock dividend will be paid on Wednesday, April 1st, to share- holderaz of record at the closing of the books at the company\u2019s London offices, No.1 Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.The-Common Stock Transfer Books will close in London at 8 p.m.on Friday, February 21st, and in Montreal and New York on Tuesday, March 3rd.The Preference Stock Books will close at 3 p.m.on Tuesday, March 10th.All Pooks will be re-opened on Thursday, April 2nd.By order of the Board.CHAS.DRINKWATER, Secretary, Montreal, Feb.10th, 1866.GURE YOURSELF! 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and all private diseases, no matter how long standing.Was long and successfully used in French and English hospitals, Two bottles positively cure the worst case.Sent to any address on receipt .of price, $1 per bottle, Every bottle has my signature on the label.None other genuine, T ose whe have tried other remedies without avail will not be disappointed in this.RUBBER GOODS of all kinds for sale.SCHOFIELD\u2019S DRUG STORE.ELM STREET TORONTO.pee nm MURPHY\u2019S Wall Paper \u2014AND\u2014 Art Store fs opposite Queen\u2019s Theatre, i ST CATHERINE STREFT, | Ere tt * A AT THE CITY HALL City Attorney Says the Council is Legally Elected.THE LAW, HOWEVER, T0 BE TESTED.Provincial Lists to be Opened\u2014The Health Committee Cutting Down - - - Expenses.The Maÿor and members of thé Halifax City Council visited His Worship, Mayor' Wilson-Smith at the City Hall, yesterday moining, and had a long interview with him.The City Attorney has given his decision as to the.provincial electoral lists, and it is finally decided to re-opén them once more.Mr.Ruy held that as the new ameñdments, which L.O.David had beer working to get passed since three years ago, are finaily in force, and considering that there are many electors qualified by the new law, the City Clerk must make two different lists.To-day public notice will be given: through the press, that all persons who are qualified to voté under the new law, must present themselves at the City Hall within 80 days following said public notice, THE MUNICIPAL LISTS.As to the municipal lists, which were declared illegal by Judge Gill, the City Attorney stated toa reporter that all that talk was a tempest in a teapot, for the question of signing the lists is, in his opinion, a mere technicality, even from the opponent\u2019s point of view, for as long as the intention of the law and of the people is carried out, there is nothing illegal.Another point against the contestants, said City Clerk David.\u2018\u2018is the faut that Clause 61 of the city charter provides formally and indisputably that contestations of elections must be iyled within 30 days after the election.\u201d Mr.Choquet maintaïns that} that clause does not apply to a quo - war-# ranto applied for by a tax-payer.Nothing was done, yesterday in the matter, owing.fq.the absence of F.X.Cho- quet, but a writ will be applied for today or Wednesday, against one alderman as a test nase, THE HEALTH COMMITTEE ECONOMIZING.At a meeting of the Health Committee held this morning there was appointed a sub-committee, composed of Aldermen Brunet, Turner and Wilson, in view of reducing the expenses of the department from $130,817, as they were last year, to $104,073, the amount allotted for the ensuing year.It was decided to notify the Notre Dame and General Hospitals that after the Ist of May, the Civic Hospital will be under the control of the Board of Health.The sub-committee will also discuss the advisability of dispensing with the horses for the milk inspectors.Ald.Harper said they might just as well go without any inspectors at all, if their horses are taken away from them.} \u2018 Dr.Laberge asked that permission be granted to reserve some rooms, in \u2018the Chateau de Ramezay, where people could stop while their houses were disinfect= ed.Referred to Finance Committee.J.E.Dore, submitted a plan to reduce the expenses of the Incinerator is order that no employes be discharged.The question will be discussed by the subcommittee.- KENTUCKY POLITICS LIVELY NOW.Increased Excitement Over the Senatorship Contest Yesterday.Governor Bradley Obliged to Call Out the Militia.Frankfort; Ky., March 16.\u2014What promises to be tire most sensational day of the Senatorial fight was begun with a proclamation from Governor Bradley issued at 9 0\u2019clock thig morning, whicy Says! in gist: Whoreas jf, las been made known to me by affidavits- that for several days past an armed body of desperate men bave by their threats and demonstrations intmidated and overawed the members \u2018of the Genera} Assembly and assaulted Senator C.J.Walton and prevented him from going out of the Sen ate chamber, and in like manner took poss session of the door of the House while thd joint Assembly was in session and assumed to decide who should enter the chamber of the House when said session was being held, and attempted to be sworn in as officer by the clerk of the Senate and tkereupon Tor cibly seizad the bodkkgeper of the House of Representatives, while the general Assembly was ip joint dession, prevented bim frome exercising the duty of hiv office, allowed person to entdr who were not) entfitied to a place on the floor, and prevented members from voting in the joint session, that the sheriff amd the policemen of the city, bave at wo time arrested any of these rioters or armed persons, but have stood by and permitted them to continue their work of intimidation.Frankfort, Ky., March 16.\u2014(Later.) The Democrats say that Governor Bradley\u2019s action in calling out the troopy is mwarrant- ed by law and that he bas laid Himself liad ble to impeachment.The situation which had led to thig crisis which bag afforded a pretext for armed intervention, is a dead-lock over an election of a Unitad States Senator, This action must come as the joint choice of the two branches of thè Kentucky State Legislature.Ex-Senator and ex-Governor Blackburn is the candidate of the Democrats, but the Republicans have teen able so far to prevent his receiving the requisite majority of votes cast on joint ballot.Be THE FIRE RECUKD.Cleveland, Ohio, March 16.\u2014Fire of an une knpwn origin this morning destroyed the four-storey brick butlding at 747 Cedar Avenue, owned by: the P.H.Kimball estate, and an adjoining residence owned by H.A.Vaughan.The Kimball building was occupied by a number of manufacturing com cerns, all of whom lost everything.The loss on building and contents will approximate $45,000, with insurance of about $30,000.The vigtit watchman of the Kim- ball building, name wmnknown, is missing.Georgetown, Ind., March 16.\u2014The I.E.and St.Louis tunnel, 306 feet in length, caught fire at an early hour this morning, and the entire woodwork was burned out.Tt will take several days to clear away the debris, and through freight traffic will\"he entirely abandoned until the tunnel is ready for use.Passenger traffic may be resumed before the tunnel is cleared, by transférring passengers and =m, baggage.MONTREAL DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1896, CHALLENGED T0 À DUEL The A.P.A.Representative\u2019s Votes in Congress.He Détlines, However, Captain Phelan, Figh Washington, D.C.; March 16.\u2014Kapresent ative Linton, of Michigan, the leader of the A.P.A.sentiment in the House, received Some days ago a letter from Captain Thos.Phelan, of Kansas City, tte well-known! Irish agitotor, in which Capt.Phelan chia lenged im to fight a ducl at Bladensburg, the challenge being precede] by a long de nunciation of Mr, Linton\u2019s courge in opposing tho churth schools appropriations and the placing of the statue cof Father Marguette in the Capitcl.Mr.Linton peid no attention to tie communication and from Some other source it found its way into the nevs- papers, Mr.Linton was asked to-day if be had made any reply to tie challenge.Ho said: \u201cEver since the House defeated the appropriations for sectarian institutions in the district of Columbia bill partly through my efforts, my mail Fas been IcadoX every day with great tumbers of letters from re.ligicus fanatics amd crawls, devounciry mo violently, threatening vengeance snd death in vartous forms, AN of these lctters I have thrown in the waste basket.Therc have been so many that there was ro time ti read them ull, and.I Have paid no attention to any of them.Tijis letter from Plelan was one ¢f them, and I suppose went into the basket with the others.I had forgot ten the letter, nor did I think wha Phelan was until the letter and a stetch of big careor wad printed in the papers.Since publicity has been given to it, L maÿ conclude to make some rerly.Of course fighting duels iy not in my line.That sort of performance id consiäcred rathes ridiculous by Americans of this gencration.The threats which I have received from cranks have not alarmed me in the least, and I would have preferred that no publicity be given to them.\u201cI am not an enemy to the church, but 1 am unalterably opposed to give the appropriations to assist sectarian work and to any sort of union of church and state, and shall continue to oppose them.\u201d Capt.Phelan is represented as a\u201d celebrated broadswordsman and a Fenian.A for years ago le was stabbed in a 1ow in O\u2019Donovan Rossa\u2019s office in New York.AN IRATE PRELATE Bishop Labrecque Violently Attacks L\u2019Electeur\u2019s Editor.(Special to the Herald).Quebec, March 16.\u2014Notwithvtanding Mr.Pacaud\u2019s stcical silence when warned by Archbishop Bëgin and Bishop Labrecque; about the Comments made in L\u2019Electeur in regard to those dignitaries\u201d action re the Manitoba School Bill the Bisbicp of Chi- coutimi is again Moasting the Quebec LiberzK organ.Ina letter replying to another one ad dressed to him by Mr.Elzear Dallaire, proprietor of Le Courrier de Charlevoix, and which reply was published in that paper, Mgr.Labrecque, rdferring to the editor of L\u2019Elesteur, calls kim \u201cta dophistic and Cal- umoidus journalist, whose principle is td work with Voltaire\u2019s.motbo: Mentons, mentons; il en restera toujours quelque chosge.?WANT BOURDON BACK This afternoon representatives of the Guarantee Company interested in the Rosario Bourdon case, and officials of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company waited on Judge Dugas to ask for an extradiction warrant agsinst the ex-cashier.Bourdon, as stated already in another column is not arrested, and the present step is being taken as a precautivnary measure, so that in case he should be run to earth, immediate steps would be taken te secure his return to Montreal with as little delay as possible.MR WAINWRIGHT Has No Intention of Resigning From the Grand Trunk.The recent report which has been circu: lated in certain papers regarding the resignation of Mr.Wainwright, assistant genic ral manager df the Grand Trunk, bas been emphatically derjed by that .gentieman.When sem Sunday with roferencg to thd accuracy af the rumor, ke said: \u2018No, it is absclutely false.My relations with the Grand Trunk Railway are the same ab the present time as they always were.I have no intention of resigning, or of identifying myself with any other railway corporation.I leave for Ottawa Monday morn ng on business for the company and will likely be there the greater part of the weck.The statement is absolutely false.CANADIAN CATTLE The Correspondence as to the Existence of Pleuro-Pneumonia.London, March 16.\u2014The president of the Board où Agricultures Mr.Walter Long.answering a question on the stubjeot, said that the Government was preparcä to lay on the table the correspondence with Canada regarding pleuro-preumonia, A HEAVY FAILURE, rt mn eres may A, Nelson & Co.Assign on Demand of M.Vinedberg & Co.Alexander Nelson, Michaël Halby and Edward Percy Gordon, dong business as A.Nelson & Co, \u2018furriers, No.501 St Paul Street, have assigned at the demand of Moses Vireberg, wholesale merchant.The assoly ard stock in trade, bonds, plant, fixtures, bills receivable, book debts and casi in Land.The list of creditors number 22, and the principal are: M.Vincherg & Co! $2,365; Hirschel & Meyers, $2,142; A.Vogel & Co., $1,355; T.Solomon, $1,660; Greene, Sons & Co., $107; Munderloh & Co., $185; Henry Marcus & Son, $491; W.W.Hart & Co., $408; T.Affe] & Co., $253; Henry Bens nett, $898; F.Eugath & Co., $270; G.Gaudig & Blau, $15222; A.Mayer & Co.) $151; T.Erler, $223; Walter Ashworth & Co., $108.The total liabilitges are in the nelgbborkood of $12,000.COURT OF QUEEN'S BENTH.In: the Court of Queen\u2019s Bench, yesq terday,! ;William \u2018Scott was placed on trial on an indictment, charging him with attempting to steal from the GG.T.R.by breaking the seals of cars.After a short hearing, he was found guilty.Patrick Brennan and William Duna then pleaded not guilty to a charge of highway robbery.Their trial is still in progress.(Chief Justice Sir Alexander Lacoste presiding.Penal Servitude for Life.Paris, March 16.\u2014Thomas O'Brien, the American bunco-steerer, wko shot and killed \u2018Kid Waddell, amotker American crock, on March 27 last, was sentenced Saturday to \"A penal servitude for life.A MILITARY BLUNDER.Spanish Soldiers Killed by Their Comrades.Two Battalions\u2019 Mistake Each Other for Cuban Rebels.Havana, March 16.-A [deplorable mistake has resulted in the killing of a number of Spanish soldiers by their fellow-Spaniards, The battalion of San Quentin was approaching the town of Cano, seven miles from Havana, to save the buildings of a burning plantation.The town shortly before that had been attacked by the insurgents, and the garrison, without hailing the San Quentin battalion and taking them for the insurgents, returned to a second attack, opened upon them with volieys.The San Quentin battalion, on the other hand, mistook the garrison for the insurgents, and charged three times with great determination, taking the town.The blasts from the cornet and the cries of \u201c\u2018Liva Espana\u201d on the part of the San Quentin soldiers were not sufficient to put a stop to the firing on either side.Before the mistake was di- covered the San Quentin battalion had lost twelve soldiers, killed, and a captain, four lisutenants, and twenty-seven soldiers wounded.} Antonio Maceo, Quivican, Bandera and Lacret attacked the town of Batabano on Friday right, and a fight ensued.The garrison of the forts, consisting of fifty-six men, made a heroic defence, and two Spanish gunboats in the ncighbor- ing waters assisted by bombarding the insurgents.The utmost cfforts of the Spaniards, however, did not avail to prevent the insurgents capturing the town.They had possession Of it for a time, and upon retreating in the direction of Pinar Del Ric they burned the greater part of the town.PEARSON DIVORCE CASE The Senate Grants Petitioner Leave to Withdraw It.Ottawa; March 16.-The Senate Divorce Committee resumed its sittings this morning, for the purpose of hearing evidence in the Pearson case.Mr.Gemmill stated oa behalf of petitioner, Mr.Pearson, that in consequence of the line of defence adopted by the respondent, and the order of the Senate requiring petitioner to supply his wife with money for the purposes of her defence, the proseeution of his petition for a divorce would entail more expense, and the necessity for much greater amount of evidence from the United States and other places than was anticipated, Accordingly, comddering the difficulty of enforcing the \u2018attendance of witnesses from the United States, and that the present session of Parliament was now too far advanced to admit of a contested application being completed, counsel had advised petitioner to discontinue the present application, and to begin de novo at a suhsequent session: Petitioner was accordingly, allowed to withdraw the application, It has been rumored that a reason for respondent\u2019s, defence is that she wishes to be petitioner for a divorce in an American court, but that Pearson refuses to be a party to any such ar- rengement.Of course; the other side of the case has a different story.BOURDON NOT ARRESTED The Story of His Capture Made Out of Whole Cloth, The daily press, with the exception of the Herald exclusively, published the fact Saturday and yesterday that Rosario Bour, don! the ex-cashied of the; Ri\u2018helien and Ontario Navigation Company, bad been arrested in Paris, and was being held for extradition.There is not thy slightes{ truth in the statement.Neitkier the Department of Justice in Ottawa, the Attorney.Gener- |- al\u2019s Department in Quebec; nor the local Police authorities, including the High Con stable} have been notified of such an occurs rence] desirable as it may be.It is possible that Bourdon may have been arrested jn Paris for some local offence, but if.he was, the people most interested here do not know it.CHILI EARTHQUAKES Buildings Damaged and Population Paniec-Stricken.London, March 16.\u2014A despatch from Santiago de Chili to the Times says: \u201cA series, of earthquakes occurred on Friday throughout Chili.One shock was the strongest and longest that has occurred here for many years.It lasted for two minutes.Buildings were damaged here and in Valparaiso, and the people were stricken with panic, and passed the night in the open air.AUSTRIAN SOCIALISTS Demonstrations in Vienna\u2014Decorating the Graves of \u2018\u2018I848\u2019\u201d Men, London, March 16.\u2014A Vienna despatch to the Daily News reports that several scuffles occurred in that city yesterday, owing to the demonstrations made by thousands of Socialists returning from the cemetery, where they went to place wreaths upon the graves of the victims of the revolution of 1848.MAY INVITE LAURIER A Rumor as to the Government\u2019s Scheol Conference.(Special to the Herald.) Ottawa, March 16.\u2014There is a report in circulation to-day, that the Government will ask Mr.Laurier to be a party to the conference which they are about to arrange for on the school question.If they are serious about this conference, they had better hold it at once, and not when it is too late.KILLED MIS SISTER, Peoria, Ill, Marck 16.~Albert Wallace was hanged at Pekin Saturday for the murder of bis sister, Mrs.Bowlby.The drop fell at 11.10.Dissatisfaction over the disposal of their father\u2019s estate was the cause of tide murder.MAREK TWAIN WELL, Bombay, March 16.\u2014Mark Twain; the \u2018American humorist, will resume his lectures on Wednesday next, and will leave India and Africa on April 1.The Portuguese Debt, Lighon, March 16.\u2014Tte Minister of Finance intends to ask the Cortes for author\u201d ity to convert the entire Portnevese debt.Lo The United States Government Asks to Exelude Them.Senator Lodge on Their Influence on American Citizenship.Washington] March 16.=Senator Lodge delivered a speech on the immigration question in the Senate this afternoon.He showed by the existing law that paupers, diseased persons, convicts and contract laborers are now denied admission to the United States.By the bill under consideration, it was proposed to make a new class of excluded immigrants, viz., the totally ignorant.Two questions arose in connection with the bill: First, as to the merits of this particular form of restriction, and secondly, as to the general policy of restricting immigration at all.It was found as result of investigation, that the illiteracy test would bear most heavily upon the Italians, Russians, Poles, IHun- garians, Greeks and Asiatics, and very lightly, or not at all, upon English- speaking emigrants Canadians, Scandinavians and French.\u201cThe race which would suffer most seriously by exclusion under the proposed bill,\u201d he said, \u201cfurnish the immigrants who do not go to the west or south, where immigration is needed, but who remain on the Atlantic seaboard, where immigration is not needed, and where their presence is most injurious and undesirable.The immigrants excluded by the illiteracy test are those who remain for the most part in congested masses in our gréat cities.They furnish a large proportion of the populaticn of the slums.\u201d, | The question of the advisability of restricting immigration was a subject the Scnator thought, of the greatest magnitude, and the most far reaching importance, \u201c11,7% he continued, \u201cwe have any re- gurd for the welfare, the wages, or the standard of life of American workingmen, we should take immediate steps to restrict foreign immigration, There is no danger, at present, at all events, to our workingmen from the coming of skilled mechanics or of trained and educated men with a settled occupation or pursuit, for \\immigrants of this class will never seek to lower the standard of American life and wages.On the contrary, they desire the same standard for themselves, but there is an appalling danger to the American wagc-earner from fhe flood of low, unskilled, ignorant, foreign labor which has poured into the country for some years past, and which not only take lower wages, but accepts a standard of life, and living so low that, the American working: man cannot compete with it.The injury of unrestricted immigration to American wages and American standards of living is suficiently plain, and is bad \u2018enough, but the danger which this immigration threatens to the quality of our citizenship is far worse, More pres cious even than forms of Government are the mental and moral qualities, which make what we call our race.That danger has begun.It is small as yet, comparatively speaking, but it is large enough to warn us to act while there is yet time, and while it can he done easily and efficiently.There lies the peril at the portals of our land: there is pressing in the tide of unre stricted immigration.The time has certainly come, if not to stop, at least to check, to sift, and to restrict those immigrants.\u201d | \u2018THE BERMUDA CLEARED: Supposed to Have Arms and Ammnni- tion for Cubans.° ernment whild attempting to leave this barbon on gf supposed filibustering expedi- ton to Cuba, and afterwards released, left ber anchorage in the upper bay and proceeded to sca wyeaterday morning.She cleared yesterday for Vera Cruz; and is thought to have with her a supply of arms and ambunition for Cuba.New York, March 16.\u2014Thd Press this motring says: Despite the efforts of this country, in the face of the loss of the steamship J.W.Hawkins off Long Island and the seizure by the Unitod States Marshals of the steamship Bermuda, the Cubans have now \u2018upon the sea and bound! for the island whose freedom is the one thought of their lives, that identical careo of ammunition aboard the same steamship, On an- dle\u2019 vessel it is understood are a score of men who are to be transferred to the Ber muda somewhere on the high seas.The Ber muda left New York karbor yesterday morning.It was shortly after 8 o'clock when she got wp ter anchor, 10 o\u2019cleck when she passed Sandy Hock, and about noon when she distanced the fleet of newspaper tugs that followed her to sea.FROM POVERTY TO AFFLUENCE, Cleveland, Obid, March 16.\u2014The officials of the County Infirmary have received information from England that John Francis, a pauper in the institution, has fallen heir to nearly $250,000.Francis, who is 65 yeary old, came to this country with his wife from England a few years ago, and was for a time employed ag a flagman Ly tho Nickel Plate Road, bub wag dismissed for inattention to his work.Then his wife died, and he finally drifted to the poorhouse.Francis says He knew Le was ont titled to money in the old country, mt) long ago gave up hope oË ever getting it, PROVISION MERCHANT ASSIGNS, der the style of C.S.Thompson! on the corner of DeMontigny and Amherst streets, has assigued on demand of Francois Xavier Plouffe.The assets are stock-in-trade,provisions, winds, liquors, bock debts, a horse and two vehicles.There are forty-six creditors and the liabilities total some eleven hundred dollansy The Heaviest creditor is Mr.Plouffe, whose claim is $215.FOREIGN CATTLE IN FRANCE, Paris, March 16.\u2014The Minister of Agriculture, M.Viger, has issued a decree, that imported cattle need not be killed on landing.They will, however, be specially tested for tuberculosis.THE DENTAL CONVENTIONS.A.Craigie, New York, arrived in town yesterday.He is the first dele gate to arrive for the big Dental Convention under the auspices of the Vermont Dental Association which opens at the Queen's Hotel, Wednesday.There will be over 300 delegates present, and important subjects will be discussed, Mrs.Ashmead-Bartleit Dead, London, March 16.\u2014Mrs, Asbmead Bhrt lett, mother! of Sir Elis Ashme: -Bartkett, M.P.,and Mr.William Lebman Bartlett.Coutts, husband off Baroness Burdett Coutts; ist dead.She was the widow of Mr.Ellis Bartlett, a digsenling minister of Ply.mouth.Mass, New York, Mar.16.\u2014The steamship Ber.-muda, recently seized by the Federal Gove the Spanish consuls, Ministers and spies in Madame Cecelia Soucy, doing business un- Can't Do It.To get a better made, better quality, better fitting One Dollar White Dress Shirt, than those we make and sell you, in this city\u2014you can\u2019t do it.Our shirt customers are growing every day, they have heard of the goods; they come to us and buy, because no other firm in Montreal gives so much shirt value as we do, Munroe Bros, 2246 St.Catherine Street, Poy rave ih ii] \u2014 Th Our Wines are a Delight To Consumers, and a Mystery to Competitors.Ask your dealers for our Two Favorite Brands\u2014 \u2018 \u201cBON BOURGEOIS\u201d CLARET (Table Wine) $3,090 per doz, quarts \u201cMONTFERRAND\u201d CLARET (Invalids\u2019 Use) $4.00 per doz.quarts $1.00 Extra Per Case containing 24 Pint Bottles, We could not improve the quality, if paid double the price.If your dealer is out of it, telephone or write BORDEAUX GLARET GO.30 Hospiiel St.Montreal (Tetrnone 2424, When we Read Or Hear of es e We naturally Think of E.B.Eddy\u2019s Matches.ee OS AS AS AS A OS AS OS AS SR NP S22 AAR: 9434434 44-44 13933306 * Karn Pianosé @ S Come and See Them.@ Montreal Branch, $ : D.W.Karn & Ga., caine Catherine Opposite FMurphy\u2019s, o 0434344 %24-33-16%84%0%9 CROGKETT'S LATEST ~~ JUST OUT \u201cCILEG KELLY\u201d An Arab of the City, His Progress and Adventures, by 8.R, CRHOCKEIT.Author of \u201cThe Lilac Subonnet, \u201d etc.Illustrated.Undoubtedly the best of Mr Crockett\u2019s works, both for humor and pathos Price, $ 1.25 Five Corts Extra At CHAPMAN'S BOOKSTORE, 2407 St, Catharine St, Montreal.MURDERED BY A PRIEST The Sad Fate of Mary Gilmartin Recalled.Cincinnati; Ohio, March 16.=The court has adjudged Father Dominick O'Grady, insane, and he was committed to Long- view Asylum.He is not expected to live long, and will never be tried for the sensational murder of Mary Gilmartin two years ago.He became intimate with the beautiful girl in Ireland.They came to this country.together.When she attempted to escape irom him he pur sued her, and murdered her on the street of this city.DURING THE MONTH OF MARCH 20 Fieees of Furniture for 850.00.Comprising Parlor Set, Bedroom Set, Dining-room Set and Kitchen for $50 spot cash at Frederic Lapcinte\u2019s, 1551 St.Catherine Street.\u2018Get our prices if you intend furnishing.\u201d Open evenings.OA ¢ FANNIE DAVENPORT ILL, St.Louis, Mo., March 16.\u2014 Fannie Davenport was Unabla to appear on Saturday night at the Olympic Theatre, owing to a severe attack of neuralgia.The Sociely of Arts of Canada, 166% Noire Dame Street, Montreal.Distributions every Wednesday.Value of prizes ranging from $4 to $5,000, tickets 25 cents.Value of prizes ranging from $2 to $2,000, tickets 10 cents.Decline in Northern Pacifics, London, March 16.\u2014The Pall Mall Gazette, this afternoon, says that the Northern Pacific Railroad re-organization scheme is not appreciated here.Northern Pacific preferréd declined 8 1-8 today.Let the Boy\u201d Smoke The right kind of tobacco while about it, costs no more than the ill-smelling and of the kind that burns the mouth.The kind that\u2019s pleasing to yourself and your company is the popular Ross\u2019 Cut Plug Smoking \u2018Tobacco.Call into Ross\u2019, 20 Chaboillez Square, and try it.Great Northern Reducing Wages.Seattle, Wash., March 16.\u2014The Great Northern Railroad has made another reduction in the wages of the employes, the men affected being agents, telegraph operators, cashiers, and engine wipers.Rest Varne in Smoking.e have cut the price on Smoking Topanon.Tuxedo, formerly 20 cents per package, now 10 cents.Best in the land.Havana Importing Co., 134 St.James Street.: Riffes in the De Reers Mine, T.ondon, Maren 16.lespatch to the Times says that the Government officials have round rifles and ammunition stored in the De Beers mine, but no machine guns.Rolland Brothers, Have removed their Warerooms and Factory to No.1199 De Montigny Street, near St.Denis.Will continue to make all kinds FURNITURE, UPHOLSTERED GOODS, MATTRESSES and SPRING BEDS.Many Modern improvements Have been devised and embodied in our SCHOOL DESKS.We have the largest stock in Canada, and special low prices.(anadian Offce & School Desk Agency 1782 Notre Dame St.TWO KINDS of clothes, the kind that are satise factory and the kind that are not.Opposite Carsiey\u2019s Store We make the satisfactory kind.P.Pallascio, 5 St.Lawrence St._ | Herald C \u2018ch.pany, MONUMENTS, HEADSTONES, Etc.We have some special offers at very low prices.Peter Smith Cranite Co.290 Bleury Street.Genuine Blood Oranges The First of the Season just in.Bitter Oranges, Large.eer 6p Per Dozen.-.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026cccoouosces A 0e Valencia Oranges.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026cureuurs Per Dozen, fromm.++.106 Messina Oranges.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026verresree .; Per Dozen, from.106 Jamaica Oranges.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.- Per Dozen, from.\u2026.\u2026.California Navel Oranges \u2018 Per Dozen, from.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.106 Fresh Tomatoes (choice).1 5e er Lb.\u2026.00ovessonces Bananas, in splendid condition.2 5 ¢ Per DOZeN.s ev vee iiereervanoinss Fresh Walnuts.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.PPFERRE Per LD.AON 100 Fresh Walnut Meats.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.er LD.+.-00000 an 0onenvac000 206 Choice Messina Lemons.\u2026.Per DOZen.\u2026.\u2026.-\u202600000000s suce 10e \u2018hoice Fameuse Apples and every other kind Choice Ka always on hand.: Oysters for the [lillion.HAND-PICKED MALPECQUES from 33.00 LL: 406 2 100 de Fresh Bulk Oysters (solid meat) received daily, per quart.} 4-06 Fresh Boiled Lehsters Every Day.Bell Telephone 2371.E.Desjardins, Grocer and Fruiterer, Corner Windsor and St, Antoine sireets Iron Bedsteads.\\ Iron have some very pretty Me atends and Cots\u201d at very low prices.T.BE.& A.MARTIN, Furniture Dealers, jo24 Notre Dame Sireet = TS : * 1 Te Mentrezl Herald = published daly al 603 Craig Su eet ny Helton, pres dent.11 "]