The daily witness, 17 mars 1897, mercredi 17 mars 1897

[" ~ lang Ns On rhe, ments AT or ase > Was hone ture \"noon wards 1 Og- N.peti ature smaly iat aster open) 5 le neal nt ;s 5 and tition P Yo shave part ren- beases t cor raphs becn h no ls 30 ent LZ IU nor , the ered Mos an A JAPANESE CONSUL HERE WILY HIS COUNTRYMEN SHOULD | BE WELCOMED.VIEWS AND A RAP AT SCALE INTERESTING THE CHINESE.In hs thicliv padded silk dressing - om and leisurely, with large, black eves, the Honorable T.xs, Il < Imperial Japanese Majcstv's + «il ++ the Dominion of Canada, no:!r well seem a bit of the languorous o]baws with a relentless seen in the black morn- st rubbing U''tATIANISM | in cost of the west, alert and virile.he des al the promptness and restless vor oi che modern.And.indeed, the lon.modern to his finger tips.Mr.Nossé is At this moho is considering a scheme which, his country nent it realized, will bring awd count remen to the knowledge of Cana- highly interesting, practical and profitable wav.Mr, Nossé.mada about two vears nzo, commerce bare in à sure Le came to studied dustrial and Los conditions to some purpose.It is his belief that the commercial relations be- and Japan should he improved.At present the Americans, with wneir enterprise, have reaped all the advantage.It is the United States which export to Japan those products of which we have a year- ix surplus, \u2018On the one hand.sewing machines, fruit, fresh fruit.brass 1utber gonds, iron goods, whiskey.\u2019 \u2018What, Mr.Nossé, sav that vour people drink whiskey The question was asked this morning sn My, Nossé's room at the Windsor lintel, where the consul-general was sur- yeunded with a litter orf pretty things, and in which ore detected the rich per- rime of a scented cigar.Ar.Nossé.one of the politest beings howed with imimitable grace and observed.the while his Justrous eves twinkied-\u2014 Une of the penalties we had for civilization, you know?Tiowever.Japan wants a long list of tween Canada Seat iv Japan needs Cana- bicveles, canned hedsteads, cotton, lumber and\u2014 dian vou do not mean to ot + ave, ta par { tndian goods, and Canada needs a ter tv, hardy population, which Japan to sappy.Mr.Noss: has had his \u201culquarters for snme time past at Brit- ese sin which has been forwarded to Ottawa : demanding that the per capita tax upon Chinese shail include the Japanese also, are that it shali be raised to $300 to keep bnah peoples out 2 OF course, sensible peonle do nat approve of this pet tion, it 15 10 a great extent fathered Iv men who are not even British Da vou knew that in the Koote- nov chistrict and the Fraser river district rhe conntiy 15 flooded with Americans, vho ant all for themselves, and who I sub- | : because there is an opportunity.vote prevent any other people from par- | \"cata on benefits which are all the: rope snes in vile 7 No doubt trere us Ar Maxwell #nd others who ar: Cor adie vie hove made the nnstake who band etreme ivnorance could mure, tuner, où lnraming the Japan se with the Ching Now, T do not think thor Chinese \u201cimmigration, as it :s at nic=ent conducted, 1: desirable.It 1s, really through the power of the Six Com- papes, whose head zuerters are at Can- \"on à shecies of slavery, These croat too strenz for interfere capnantes, Winch are Ciovernment to (HHiuese wort] rode the mane « that the .1.Chinese, for the passage across: 1 pirsrae the clothing, and the food, and 1; return the Chinese have to serve «no Hianv vears, owned practically, hady and woul, by these great organizations.This ssh vou have Chinatown an British Co'iunma.The obje\u201ct is à.ke'p them cuder contro! 1-4 secrecition.Whi, thir very food 1s Iraporie! teen China thee companies and sold at three prices, And then we ail knox that the Chinese 0 come from Canton are the Jowest im They bring their vices wirh Ther smoke opium ; thoy start T RCD \u2018um, \u2014 AF This is the principal port of Greece, upon which the-eombined fleets of Europe may declare a blockade to-day, on Ea Ee Ce 5 ne re er eto mam rm RE ft Et £, EE I pei, WE EE CES \u2014 mre cm om 4 MR anse Eu mn © mn mt \u2014\u2014\u2014 Acte A Pn = en MS ag ii THE PIRAEUS, THE SE*PORT OF ATHENS.= Ha PRE A uy : oA AEA Ral Zi Zl Hh =a A gambling dens ; never assimilate with the population ; and finally, they take all they earn to China.\u2019 \u201cThe Japanese, on the contrary, are a highly civilized people.They are clean and frugal; they set up the family; they open churches.There are fifteen thousand Chinese in British Columbia; and about eight hundred Japanese, all told.The latter are Christians, or the majority of them.Several hundred are Canadian subjects.There are sixty wives.The Japanese Government is very particular about letting young girls leave the country, unprotected, lest they should be led astray; and, so in every case where a young man in Canada has a correspondence with the parents of a young woman in Japan, 1 take charge of the matter of bringing her out.I make all the enquiries; and, receiving a permit from the Imperial Government, the voung woman is sent across.When she lands, I see that the young couple are brought before the pastor of one of the Christian churches and properly married, such marriage being registered with the proper county officer.Moreover, 1 have impressed upon all naturalized Japanese that they must be loyal to the Queen and to Canadian institutions.More women will come when the country is better settled and life is less rough.\u2018 Now, why should we be discriminated against?\u2019 demands the Hon.Mr, Nossé, with animation.\u2018 England was the first to recognize Japan as a modern, civilized nation.England gave to Japan, in the new treaty, which was made with her two years ago.the benefit of the most favored nation clause.We are in the East what England is in Furope.We do not want the material but we do want the moral support of England, (Canada is the greatest colony in the British Empire.Why should this colony discriminate against that people the progress and civilization of which England was the first to plained if an attempt had been made to keep us out.We had no status then in the civilized world; but to diserimi- nate against us now 1s most unfair.Of course, I do not think the petition will ever come to anything.I have inter viewed the Hon.Tarte, the Hon.Mr.Davies, when these gentlemen were in British Columbia, and they seemed favorable to the .Japanese.Indeed, Mr.Tarte said the .Japanese were like the French in this respect that they were a merry.happy people, who never thought of the morrow.When the Japanese makes money he spends it.Mr.Nossé instanced the good work which the Japanese did in the gold mines, in the fishery business at the Fraser River, where the annual output, since the arrival of the Japanese, reached the total of a million cans, as against two hundred thousand ten vears ago.They get good wages; they make good fariners: and even now they are raising wheat and fruit and vegetables with great success.Population is needed in British Columbia, which has a great future before it, and the Japanese come The Consul-General thinks it strange gentlemen in British Columbia should inveigh against the habits of the and vet make no effort to en- against opium smoking, force the law recognize \u201d | Thirtv years ago I could not have com-, Mr.Blair, the Hon.Mr.| they are unclean ; they! against vice and un- don\u2019t they smash | don\u2019t want it?\u2019 he! against gambling, cleanness, Why Chinatown if they asks.Mr.Nossé makes an important point | respecting the treaty of commerce and | navigation between England and japan, entered into two years ago, and which, is to come into force in 1898.According | to the terms of this treaty, any British | colony which made application through \u201cthe Imperial Government for participation in the benefits of the most favored | 1 tog - BARI IEN Rr Fall CLS EE Ch ieee ie die, Lm etre eed : slups are really ready for sen.nation clause, would be so admitted, if such application were made within two years from the date of the exchange of ratifications of the treaty.\u201c Newfoundland, Natal, and N Wales have come under the favored nation clause, but Canada has done nothing,\u2019 said Mr.Nossé.My idea is that the Canadian Government should apply, and then apyoint a commercial agent in Japan, whose business would be to make the Japanese familiar with Canada and Canadian pro- duets.In that way a large trade would be built up, of which the Americans at present reap the benefit.I have explained my views to the Imperial Government as to the need of a Consulate- Gieneral, and the appointment of consuls throughout the Dominion at central points, in order that Japan may be familiarized to the Camadian\u2019 public.My scheme is expensive, but 1 believe it will be accepted.I have the power to say where the Consulate-General shall be established, and | am not sure yet whether I shall recommend Montreal, Toronto or Ottawa.Meantime, 1 am going to Ottawa to interview the government on that petition, with the object of clearly setting forth that the Japanese are not for a moment to be confounded with the Chinese immigrants who are coming to Canada at the rate of three hundred to every vessel.\u2019 \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014 GREECE DETERMINED.Will Reject Autonomy and Offer Strong Opposition to the Occupation of Crete by the Powers.RUMOR CURRENT THAT SHE WILL DECLARE WAR AGAINST TURKEY March 17.\u20141It 1s offivial quarters that Greece will declare Vienna, asserted in war against Turkey.Constantinople, March 17.\u2014The reply of the Porte to the note which was presented to the Turkish Government by the powers simultaneously with the presentation of the ultimatum of the Luro- pean governments to Greece has been officially The Porte the principle of autonomy for Crete but published.admits reserves discussion of the forms and detail of such an admimstration with the diplomatic representatives of the powers, these details to be subordinate to the withdrawal of the Greek warships and troops from the island.Constantinople, March 17.\u2014In political .circles here the opinion prevails that the blockade of the island of Crete by the fleets of the foreign powers, which went into effect yesterday, will drive the Greeks to desperate acts on the trontiers | of Macedonia and Epirus, whence the\u2019 news of a conflict is hourly expected.The naval oflicers were summoned by! telegraph yesterday to rejoin their ships immediately, creating the belief that the departure of a Turkish fleet is imminent although it is doubted whether the war Rome, March 17.\u2014A despatch from Canea says the Cretan insurgents have! declared that they will reject autonomy and offer all possible resistance to the occupation of the island by the powers.The despatch also says Col.Vassos, com- New South | most impregnable.already made application to | draw his troops from the island under * There 18 httle time to he lost.; \u201c17 \u2014The following are the minimum ten:- : peratures:\u2014Calgary, 14 : morrow.| Readings by Hearn & Harrison\u2019s manding the Greek army of occupation, is about to move his camp to the mountains of Sphakia, where he will fortify himself so that his position will be al- He will not with- any circumstances.London, March 17 \u2014A despatch from Athens says the Greeks in Crete assert that the Turks holding the fortificatious at Retimo have made a sortie into the town and pillaged the hoases of the inhabitants without the slightest opposition on the part of the detachment of marines from the warships of the powers.Glasgow, March 17.\u2014The Civde shipping is being greatly affected hy the situation in the East, the depression of eastern trade having reached a most acute stage.One shipping firm employing thirty-five vessels trading in the Fast has ordered all of its ships back to Great Britain, and will hereafter put them in the western trade.The reason given by the firm for this action is that the political situation in \u201cthe East has depressed trade so that cargoes are obtainable only at losing rates.Athens, March 17.\u2014A prolonged mect- ing of the Cabinet was held yesterday.The ministers discussed at length the attitude to be taken in the event of the powers attempting to coerce (Greece into a compliance with thor demands.It is stated that no disposition was shown to accede to the demands, and that it was finally decided to take active measures | as the only possible solution of the ditHi- culty.It is thought that by active measures is meant a declaration of war against Turkey, which in its effect will be to give Greece the right to maintain her army in Crete and deprive the powers of any right of interference.Crown Prince Constantine, with the first regiment of infantry, is momen- farily exnected to leave Athens to\u201d us- nd of all the Greek forces in Thessaly.The prevailing conviction here is that war is inevitable.Tt is understood that the Cabinet at its meeting to-day discussed a plan of campaign against the Turks.The whole garrison of Athens and nearly all the reserves have started for the frontier.The departure during the night of a number of troops for Volo, Thessaly, was undonbt- edly owing to the government receiving information regarding the blockade.\u2014_\u2014\u2014 \u2018WITNESS ARMENIAN Previously acknowledged\u2019 Mine comma FUND.$15,292.50 : shouted out frequently, -of the Manitoba Government under the Master C.A.McNaughton, Lancaster .1.60 Francois Rondeau, Wrightville .5.00 O.S., 76 University streét, city d.0U \u2018Hope\u2019 Woodstock .ce en 1.00 J.E.Jones, Regina, Assa.ce ee a HU Duncan G., Chaudiere Mills .1.00 Christian Endeavor Societies of Hamilton, Ont.Knox Church, Junior .- .$5.09 Central Preshyterian .5.40 Gore Street Methodist Church.3.00 Zion Methodist Church 2,02 Zion Methodist Junior .2.01 Wesley Methodist .2.0p First Congregational 2.06 St.John's Presbyterian 1.40 Erskine Presbyterian « +.1,35 Emmanuel Congregational .1.20 James Street Baptist .1.00 26.07 Total .eee ee 6 -315,332.07 | \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 .| RAIN FOR TO-MORROW.| Meteorological Office.Toronto, Ont., March ! Prince Albert.16 : Qu'Appeile, 12; Winnipeg, 20: Port Arthur, 160: Parry Eound, 16: Toronto, 12: Ottawa, zero; Montreal.6: Quebec, ! below; Halifax, ©.- Probabilities for the next twenty-four hours: Fair to-day: turning mu-h milder to-night and to-morrow; some showers to- Montreal.March 17.Standard Barometer at ncon to-day 30.28; yesterdav 30.55; te-day, temperature, max.23; min.11: yesterday.max.15: min.7.IN WRIGHT COUNTY.Telling Address by Mr.Laurier on the School Settlement.NOMINATIONS YESTERDAY.MR.TAILLON EXCITES RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS ANIMOSITY \u2014 OTTAWA COUNTY ELECTION.Ottawa, 17 \u2014Messrs.L.XN.Champagne, Liberal, and J.M.MeDou- nominated for March gall, Cunservative, were Wright County vacancy in the House of Commons yesterday at Hull.The candidates spoke and then Mr.Laurier, who was enthusiastically received and loudly he explained the circumstances under which they were called on to again exercise their franchise.The Hon.L.O.Taillon, ex-Premier of Quebec, followed and endeavored to excite the racial and religious animosities of the thousand electors present, mostly French, by quoting Mr.Dalton McCarthy's anti- French crusade of six or seven years ago and holding the liberal party responsi le for it.This angered Mr.Champague's supporters, who hissed the shametul appeal to passion, the Taillon mode, and \u201cIt is not true.\u2019 No exception could be taten to these demonstrations, but Jr.Taillon, in concluding, called on his friends present not to allow any other speaker to be heard.This in face of the fact that the Hon.William Paterson a minister of the Crown, was on the platform prepared to follow, was an unprecedented piece of discourtesy, to use a mild term.Myr.Bourassa, M.P., attempted to speak but the Censervalives present responded to the ex-Premier's appeal and hooted and shouted so as to drown the voice of Mr.Bourassa, who is one of the finest orators in the Province of Quebec.Mr.Bourassa was refused a heaving and the meeting ended as Ar.Taillon wanted.Mr.Paterson did not attempt to speak.THE SCHOOL QUESTION.Mr.Laurier, in referring to the school question, said that the Conservatives were still using the same weapons of prejudice and passion.The concessions cheered as settlement arrived at by his government, secured to the Roman Catholics of that province Christian religious teaching in the schools, the proper education of their children.(Applause.The Conservatives wept erocodile tears over the fancied sacrifice of the Manitoba Roman Catholics, but they had sent their cause from pillar to post, and back again.For vears the Roman Catholics of Manitoba had demanded their rights from the Conservatives, but they had always been refused.Taking up the remedial bill, he denied that under it the minority would have secured their rights, and challenged any Conservative to prove that they would have got as much as under the present settlement.\u2018In order to have separate schools three Colom?oe e > Trotalen! \"ly ENG .\u2026u1v@ : Last Pages.) Y Ÿ N j Edition.| \u201cVor.XXXVIIL, No.64 MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1897.Price ONE Cex.X sult the French language will be in the schools of Manitoba.satisfied Cries of \u2018Yes, yes.\u2019 He appealed to the good sense of all reasonable men if this was not y satisfuc- tory settlement.\u2018I want the two languages taught in all the schools,\u2019 he said.\u2018I speak French beccuse it is the lan guage of my mother, of the historic nation from which I have sprung, but I also speak English \"ecause it is the language of business Thiz double teaching will enable th: children of Manitoba to earn tleir living us they could not otherwise do.\u201d «Applause.) In conclusion, the Premier said : \u2018I appeal not to your prejudices.but to vour good faith.I am a Roman Catholic, as you know, and 1 have the good of my countrymen at heart.It is not by hostility that we cen come to an understanding, but by compromise ; I know taught \u2018Are you I have got as much as I could.We have settled the question to the best of our power.It will not satis{fv Archbishop Langevin.it will not satisfy some extremists, but the poliev of the government will.T army convineed, be accepted by all fair-thinking Reman Catholics without exception.\u201d (Cheers.) MR.TAILLON S SFFEFCH, The Hon.Mr.Taillon followed.Tle dwelt entirely on race and religious matters.When Mr.Devlin would be in Ireland, asked Mr.Taillon, what could he sav if an Irish Protestant, intending to em:- grate, asked him if the peoples rights were protected in Canada ?He would answer \u2018Yes.but could he say the same to an Irish Roman Cathohe ?Certain- AR.L.N.CHAMPAGNE The Liberal Candidate.He could only say that he lefe the country himself because lie had not the courage of lis convictions.Ever since Mr.Laurier's return to power, continued Mr.Taillon, he had taken Mr.Daiton MeCa-thy as his counsellor in the school question.It was Mr.McCarthy \u2018who said at Barrie that he did not mind much the religious agitation, but wht they should aim at was the abolition of the French language.It was very queer now to find Mr.Laurier associated with a man hke that or Mr.Siften.two ra- naties.Mr.Charles Marcil.Mr.Paterson and Mr.Bourassa all intended to speak op Iv not.MR.McDOUGALL, TLe Censervative Caundidave.\u2018he \"Liberal side, but were not allowed.The speeches were in Frepch.The campaign is getting hot.The hen.Mi.rieiding Mr.Paterson will speak at Saturday night.The Hon.Mr.Foster to speak for Mr.night.The resuit is not in doubt.ir.Champagne is certain of a large majority, although this was prior to 1891 Conservative stronghold.OTTAWA COUNTY CONSERVATIVES, Ottawa.March 17.\u2014About two hundred and the Hon.Aynner on goes to Wakefield MeDougall to-morrow things are necessary,\u201d he continued, \u2018distinet organization, legislative grants | and axemption from taxation.The re medial hill only gave the first, the pres- eut settlement gave all three.{Ap plause.) He charged the Conservatives with having faune to address themselves | to the good sense of the electors and with | having inflamed public opinion on the sul jeet.When he entered office he en- | tered into negotiations with the go era: | | ment of Manitoba and obtained from i cm concessions which gave the Roman Cathohes of Manitoba raligious teaching | in their schools and the protection of their language.(Applause.) As a re.delegates from all parts of Ottawa county Mel 11 convention this arternoon in the City Mall, Hull Mr.Joshua Hard, Reeve of the county, presiding, ioe {he purpose of seiceting a candidate to (eas test the county in the Conservative 3n- terest in tlie coming geveral erciion in the province.It was uranitious!s resolved that the nommation fer the county be offered to tie Hon.AG.Nan- tel.À vote of thanks was unanimous- Iv passed to Mr.Tetreau.the retiring member, and a number o1 good short speeches were made expressive of confi- | dence in the party and its candidates for bath the Local and Dominion houses.I have not got as much as I wanted; but- EE te da di tete ae ce mie ee de ee a TE LE or.J db REA NE i ot rE 2 perce Re Ia x ee SP A OA EEE VERS LR) A BT apr THE MONTREAL ¢ DAILY WITNESS.BIRTHS, MAKRIAGES AND DEATHS.Notioes of births, marriages and deaths must tmvari- edly be exdorsed with the name and address of the = sender, or otherwiss no notice can be taken af Them Birth notices are tnserted for 25e, marrlaye notices for 5ûc, death notices fer 23e prepaild.The an Rouncement of funeral appended to death notica, 25e extra; other extension to obituary, such as shor.sketch of life, two cents per word extra, except poetry, which is 30 cents per line extra\u2014prepaid.dnnual subscribers may have announcements of births, marriages and deaths (without extended obituary or C.rses) occurring this morning are as follows:-London, Wednesday, March 17.1597.Cargoes off coast, wheat quiet and steady; maize steady.Cargoes on passage, wheat rather easier; maize dull.English country markets, wheat :s quiet and steady.Liverpool spot wheat steady; spot maize firm.IFutures\u2014Wheat, 6s 0'»d March, {s May and July, 6s 04d Sept.; maize steady, 2s 64d March, 2s7%4d April, 2s 84d April, 2s 8%d May, 2s 8%d June, 2s 9%d July.Minneapclis first bakers\u2019 flour, 23s, Paris, wheat, 21.80 March, 22.00 April; flour, 45.30 March, 45.25 April.French country markets, firm.In Milwaukee wheat opened at 73%c Mar, and 74%c May.In Duluth wheat opened at 74%%c bid for Mav In Toledo wheat opened at 93'2c March, Sülece May.In Detroit wheat opened at 30460 March, 91kc May.In St.Louis wheat opened at 7i4%c for July.In New York wheat opened at 80%c May.8%c July, and 75%c bid Sept; coin opened at 30%c bid, 30%c askzd May.Grain\u2014The market is dull and steady.We quote.\u2014 Peas, per 60 lbs.47¢ to 0c No.2 oats.per 34 lbs.225ct0 23c Corn, Canadian .32¢ to 33c Rye.2.21 .,.39c to 4c Buckwheat, per 48 lbs .32¢ to 32140 Flour\u2014There is very little business passing and rate cutting is by no means at an end.We quote: \u2014 Winter patents eee .$4.30 to $4.45 Spring wheat patents .4.60 to 4.80 Straight rollers .3.90 to 4.00 Straight rollers.in bags .1.90 to 1.95 Manitoba strong bakers .4.25 to 4.60 Meal-The market is dull and the decline seems not to have encouraged buyers.We quote rolled oats at $2.70 to $2.80 in bags ; 1 $2.50 to $2.90 in barrels.Feed\u2014Manitota bran is quoted at $12, including bags.Ontario in bulk is worth $11.50 to $12.Provisions \u2014 There is a fair demand ; and market is firm.We quote:\u2014 Canadian short cut, mess.$12.00 to 312.50 Canadian short cut, light.12.50 to 13.00 Hams, city cured, per lb.00.10 to C0.12 Lard, Canadian, in pails.00.06lgto 00.00 Bacon, rer Ib .00.10 to 00.11 Lard.com.refined, per Ib.00.06!gto 00.05'4 Eggs\u2014The market is about steady at the decline.We quote llc to 12c for new lald.i There are still a few limed selling, but only to cheap grocers and confectioners.Cheese\u2014Cable was quoted this morning at 57s #1 There is no change in the local situation.jutter\u2014The marl.et is steady at 18'%c to 19¢ for finest creamery.Roll dalry i= firm j at lie tn ld'Le for choice, Hay\u2014Market continues quiet.We quote iE yee Lp A 2d ; day:\u2014First pots at $3.35 to $3.40; seconds at 33 to $3.05; pearls at $4.45 to $4.50.Potatoes-Potatoes are slow at 35c to 40c 0 per bag in car lots and steady at 45c to 50c in smaller quantities._ Beans\u2014The market is steady at 60c to @bc in car lots, and 70c to 75¢ in smaller quantities.Honey \u2014 White honey in comb at 10ç ; white extrected at 8c to 9c; dark extracted at 5c to 6c; dark in comb at 7léc to 8e.MOVEMENTS OF GRAIN AND FLOUR.Receipts.Shipments.At Chicago\u2014 Wheat, tush .13,000 71,900 Corn, bush .192,000 127.000 Oats, hush .303.000 318,000 ur, brls «.11,240 7,5 At New York\u2014 586 Wheat, bush .832% 0,908 Corn, bush .44.850 145.728 Oats.bush .76.800 4,731.Flour, bris 22 6 9,225 3,162 Flour, sacks .6.879 1,197 At Milwaukee\u2014 Wheat, bush .16,000 cree At Duluth\u2014 Wheat, bush ., .T5000 .At Detroit\u2014 Wheat, bush .2,000 1 At Minneapoli:\u2014 \u2019 000 Wheat, bush .102.00 2 At St.Louis\u2014 (000 12.000 Wl eat, bush .19,000 19,000 RECEIPTS IN MONTREAL, G.T.R.C.P.R.T't'L .800 Wheat, bush .Cees 1 3U01 Oats, bush .290) 2146 5046 Barley, bush .co oo.700 RU 700 Rye, bush .,.623 625 Flour, brls .Ce ee ee 400 409 Ashes, brls ., ., .7 7 Nressed Hogs .97 97 Leather, rolls .134 184 FISH.- The market for green fish has been very dull in consequence of the mild weather and the poor demand from the country, where the plentiful supply of Manitoba frozen fresh pike, dore and whitefish has been taken full advantage of, to the detriment of the values of the Newfoundland product, which has again sharply declined.We quote green cod No.1 at $4.40 to $4.50; No.1 large at $4.75 and No.2 at $2.76 to $3; No.1 green haddock at $2.75 to $3: No.1 N.S.herrings at $3.50 to $3.75; inferior around $3.We quote sea trout, $7.50 to $8: No.2 mackerel, half barrels, $6 ; per barrel, $11; Labrador salmon, small, $12.25 to $12.50 ; large, $14 For fresh fish we quote haddock at $2 to $2.25 per 100 lbs.in cer lots; cod.$1.85 per 100 lbs.in car lots: steak cod.3c: smelts, 3c to Hc: fresh herrings are scarce at $1 per 1060 fish; tommy cods at 60c to 80c per barrel: halibut, 8¢ to 10c.For smoked fish we quote Yarmouth bloaters, $1; kippered herrings, $1; haddies, 5¢ to 6c per 1b.: smoked herrings, i0c to 12c per box.We quote dried cod at 34.GREEN FRUIT.The price of green fruit has remained .fairly steady during the past week and tha volume of business generally has been small.The demand for oranges has been slow.while lemons have sold briskly.and tho latter are very firm at quotations.There is still a lot of poor cranberries in the market, and the range is wide.The apple market is firmer, as poor stocks are nearly exhausted.Florida tomatoes are high, in consequence of scarcity In New York.We quote:-\u2014Valencia oranges $3 50 to $4 per case: California navels.$3 tn $4.50 per box; seedlings, $2.50 to $3.50 per box: lemons, $1.75 to > -steady at Béc; JOHN MURPHY & CO.NEW GOODS At.Popular Prices! D 96196 $ SOC CHOC NEW SILKS For Blouses ! NEW DRESS GOODS In all the Latest Novelties! NEW SPRING JACKETS and CAPES! The Newest Styles in immense variety! NEW GLOVES! All the best brands in stock ! Country Orders Filled with Care.JOHN MURPHY & CO.2343 St.Catherine street, of Metealfe st.Cor.TERMS CASH.TEL.3833.$3 per box: bananas, $1.50 to $2.50; pine ; apples, 15c to 35c; cranberries, $1 to $4 per barrel, Malaga grapes, $7.50 to $8.50 per keg: i apples, $1.50 to $2 per barrel; figs.8c to 1Z¢c per 1b.; tomatoes, $4.50 to $5 per six basket carrier; cocoanuts, $3 to $4 per bushel, Boston lettuce, 65c to 75¢ doz.; cucumbers, §2 to $2.50 per doz.LEATHER, The market is very firm, but generally the | bcot and shoe men are not coming in yet except far -bargains.We hear of the sale of 16,000 sides of No.2 manufacturers at 2lc and of 30,600 on p.t.\u2018The latter sale, however has been disputed.We quote: No.2 nianufacturers\u2019 sole at 20c to 2lc; jobbers\u2019 do., 2lc to 22¢; slaughter, 22c to 24c; buft, lic to 13c; splits, Ontario, 20c to 24c; Quebec, 16c to 18c; pebble, llc to 13c; glove, 10c to 12c; Dongola,7c to 25c per foot; sheepskins, 5c to 6c per foot; calfskins, colored, 18c to 20c per foot, colored cow, 13c to 15c.H'DES.The market is very firm at the late advance, and as there is said to be opposition among the dealers the prices are not likely to recede for the present at any rate.We hear of several large sales to the United States.We quote 8c for No.1, 7c for No.2, and 6c for No.3.Selling price to tanners is 9c for Na.1; heavy steers, 8c; calfskins, Te for No.1; 5c for No.2; lambskins, 90\u20ac to $i each.TORONTO PROVISION MARKET.Toronto, March 17.\u2014Market quiet.Flour quiet, prices unchanged; straight rollers nominal at $3.65 to $3.70.Bran quiet, quoted outside west at $11 to 312; shorts, $10 to $11.Wheat quiet, offerings moderate.buyers holding off: red winter quoted at 72c and white at 73c west; No.1 Manitoba hard Midland and No.2 hard at 82¢ Midland.Buckwheat, demand limited, car lots quoted at 25c east.Barley steady.a moderate demand; No.1 sold at 3lc and 6,000 bushels of No.3 at 21c; No.2 ig quoted at Zic.Oats quiet, only a limited supply; white sold outside at 17%c and mixed at 16156 west.Peas quiet, sales at 38c to 38l4c north and west.Corn firm, car lots at 23c outside.Oatmeal quiet, prices unchanged, car lots $2.80 to $2.90.32¢c middle freights.GUELPH MARKET.Guelph, Ont., March 13.\u2014Flour, $2.10 to $2.25; fall wheat, 68c to 70c; spring wheat, 66c to 67c: bran.$9.shorts, $10; middlings, $11; barley, 30c to 35c; oats, .18¢c to 20c; rye, 32c to 34c; peas, 42c to 44c: hay.$8 to $9; \u2018potatces.per bag, 25c; dressed hogs.$6.00 to $6.25.butter, 12c to 15c: eggs, 13c to 14c; hides, $6 to $7: sheepskins, 50c to 7bc; chickens, per pair, 40c to 60c; ducks.per pair.Te to Be; 50c to 55e; turkeys, 8c to 9c INGERSOLL MARKET.Tngersoll, Ont., March 15.\u2014White wheat.722 per bushel; red fall wheat, 72¢; spring wheat, 72c: barley.25¢ to 36c; peas, 38c to de; oats.17c¢ to 1&c; corn, 45¢ to 50c; bran, $8 to $10 per ton; shorts, $1! to $13 per ton: potatoes, 30c to 40c per bag: onions, Me to Tôc; live hogs, 33.25 per cwt.; flour, $1.86 to $2.10 per cwt.; cornmeal, $2 to $2.50; apples, 25¢ per bag: dried apples, 2¢ to 2c per 1L.: butter.14c to 16¢c per 1b.eggs, 10c per dozen, ducks, 50c to \u20ac0c per palr; chickens, 35¢ to 50c per pair; geese.4c to 6c each: turkey, llc per 1b.hay.$7 to geese, per lb.$7.75 per ton; hides, 6c to Gléc per Ib.= CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET, Union Stock Yards, Chicago.March 37.\u2014 Hogs \u2014 To-day'd estimated recelpts, 23,000; yesterday's rècetpis according to offlsial returns.17,347.shipments.3.741: left over, 15.(00; estimated to-morrow 27,000; light mixed, $3.90 to $4.10; mixad packing.33.40 to $4.12; heavy shipoing, $279 to $4.12: rough grades, $3.70 to 32.75.The recvints of cattle were 12,000; stronz to 10c hizhcr.LIVERPOOL MARKET PRICES CURRENT.Liverpoo!, March 17, 1897.\u2014Sprinz whoat, fir 4d to 6s 6d: No.1 Cola.6s 3%d to Gs 5d: corn, 2s 7d; peas, 18 3d; pork, 47s %d; lara, 22s, wallow.18s 3d, bacan heavy, 23s to 27s; light, 26s 6d; chees~.573 éd.LONDON COFYSOLS.London, March 17, 12.34 p.m.\u2014 Consols\u2014 Movey.M1 13-16: account, 111 15-16.Rye quiet, sales at Wrpnesnpay, Marcu 17, 1897, THE NEW Y.W.C.A.ITS INCREASING SCOPE AND INFLUENCE.A SKETCH OF SOME OF ITS PROMOTERS.The Young Women's Christian Association of Montreal is fortunate in having as one of its vice-presidents the president of the Dominion Y.W.C.A, Mrs.John MacDougall of Dorchester street.Mrs.MacDougall, who was one of the first to start the work in Montreal over twenty years ago, was the second president of the association and has been closely identified with it ever since.The Mrs.MacDougall has to tell sound hardly credible after the advance of the last twenty-five years.it is true that when the vas first opened a number storizs Nevertheless association of the leading men of Montreal called vpon Mrs.MacDougall asking her to be good enough to have the institution moved from Metcalfe street, as it would bring a very desirable residential locality into very great disrepute.* Gentlemen,\u201d replied Mrs.MacDou- gall, © we are starting this institution not as a rescue work, but to help the bright, pure, brave young ladies of our city, less fortunate in the matter of money than some of their sisters, to maintain their self-respect and their dignity, and to prevent any, through hard ciremm- stances, being forced down to the leve! of those you now so fear !\u201d * They said not one word more,\u2019 said Mrs.MacDougall, \u2018but bade me good af- terncon and turned away.\u2019 Mrs.MacDougall is a woman of deep piety.She deplores the custom of the National Council of Women of opening their meetings without audible prayer and trusts to see the custom before long abolished.\u2018It pleases,\u201d she savs, \u2018neither YN oe it > \\ ON NN ; MRS.JOHN MACDOUGALL, President Y.W.C.A.of Canada.It certainly does not Why, at the par- Jew nor Gentile.please the Catholics.\u2019 liament of religions in Chicago represen- « tatives from every religion on earth stood together and aloud offered the Lord's prayer.It was one of the grandest sights 1 ever saw.\u2019 Mrs.MacDougall sets herself strongly against: all efforts to secularize the Sabbath, day.Neither does any plea of Sabbath recreation touch her.\u2018I have nothing to say,\u2019 she says, \u2018as to the poorer working people who toil early and late, l am not required to\u2019 decide for them.But my case is not so.Busy as I am I am not so tied down that I cannot take a little recreation on a week day.My Lord has done so much for me that I deplore any society where he is not publicly honored, and I must engage in no work that prevents my keeping his Sabbath as I think he would have me keep it.\u2019 \u2018How very sad that Miss Tenney should be laid aside now,\u2019 said Mrs.Mac- Dougall to our reporter, \u2018her whole soul is in this work and it is her toil for it that has laid her where she is now.But she says \u201cI am learning to alter one letter of \u2018 disappointment\u2019 and make it \u2018 His appointment.\u2019 \u201d Miss Tenney has a wonderful influence over girls.I never saw any one with a greater.\u2019 Mrs.Stevenson, the president of the Young Women\u2019s Christian Association, is £7 Pa Or J x ess fate I A INE XS Ao 7766 ; d.\"à .MRS.STEVENSON, President of the Y.W.C.A.of Montreal.an inspiration to all who come in contact with her.Her mental vigor, her amiability, her brightness of manner, her exceutive ability unite in making her an ideal president.Even if matters are not going just right.which even in the best regulated insti utioas will occur sometimes, Mrs.Stevenson, with her ani- ep mated faee and strong, practical common sense, will make you, éven in spite of yourself, turn to see the bright aide and keep you turhed that way until vou see vour way clear through or around the other also.The affectionate memory in which the people of Emmanuel Church hold their late pastor is shown in the furnichine of the handsome house parlor on the sec end floor, which 1s furnished 1m memory of the Rev.J.F.Stevenson, LL.D.bv Mrs.John Mackintosh, A double bed on the same floor has also been furuisled by the ladies of the same church.The joy of all concerned in the nen Young Women's Christian Association building ix strongly tinged with sorrow.Just at the realization of all Ler long \u201cin her head.MISS TEXNEY, Secretary.Y.W.C.A.of Montreal.cherished hopes, Miss Tenney, the zen- eral secretary, lies too 1ll to enjoy then Her new room is daintilv furmshe{! ud waiting for her, but she has, ee.geen nothing since the bare plaster cont Those who know Miss Tenney readily understand the deep disappointment thy 1s to her, and mapy are the pravers that will go up for her speedy recovery.Th disease as named 1s tonsilitis.but it - gravely complicated by long manths ana years of over work in the interests of the Association, and it 18 likelv to le many weeks before Migs Tenney will Le strong enough to take up her old duties again.To realize the work she has bee responsible for one had only to call upon her at any hour of the day or evening Especially has this been so since the be- girning of the plans for the new build: ing.An uninterrupted ten minutes with her was something not to be secured.Seven times in half an hour tie door bell would ring, and always the in quiry was for Miss Tenney.From cvl lar to garret there was no detail of those plans that she had not firmly fixed Every individual girl in each day-class knows her and loves her.\u2018Oh, won\u2019t you take me to see her again?\u2019 exclaimed a young girl to the writer after a hasty call when Miss Tenney left her tea to attend to us.\u2018l never met anybody more charming.1 do want io know her!\u201d The lack of a gymnasium is a great disappointment to Miss Tennev.but she hopes that before very long «in zens will wake up to the needs of then girls and the money will be forthcoming.THE WATER & POWER COMPANY'S CASE.WHAT THE WATER COSTS THE CITY.The case of the City vs.the Montreal Water & Power Company has been fixed for hearing on Friday next.A great deal of evidence has already been heard at enquete.The city established the quantity of water furnished the Town of Cote St.Louis, the rate at forty cents per thousand gallons making up the amount of the present claim, while the company defendant contends that it is entitled to the city's tanff of fifteen cents per thousand gallons for consumers of ten thousand gallons per day and over.Mr.Adolphe Davis was examined as am expert yesterday and testified that, during his term of office us superintendent he had made a calculation showing that the water cost the city about seven and a quarter cents per thousand gallous and he considered fifteen cents per thou sang a rollicking comic song.which was greatly enjoyed and encored.Mr.J Venables's solo, \u2018The Island of Dreams\u2019 was also pleasing.Mr, J.Angus Winter was the accompanist.After the concert had heen successfully coucluded a sumpcunus supper was served.Dancing was fhen \"enjoyed.The followinæ is the committee who arranged ,on behalf of the lodge, the very enjoyable evoning's programme: \u2014W.Bro.I.M-Bovle, W.Bro.W.V.McNally, lw.Bro.F.Smith.Bro.W.W.William- (son, Bro.W, A.Collins, Brn.James Fatten, Bro.J.A.MacKerow, Bro.J.Vena- bles, Bro.F.C.Capon, Bro.E.Duquette, and Bro.J.S.Wilkes.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 WILL MEET THE STUDENTS.After the visit of the Laval medjcal and lew students yesterday, Mr.Francois, editor of the \u2018Nouvelles,\u2019 communicated with tbe author of the article to which exception was taken, asking him whether he had any objection to make his name known.That gentleman., who happcns to he Mr.Stanislas Cote.secretary of the Chambre de Commerce.at once replied that he accepted the full responsibility of the article, and, moreover, if the students had the stomach for it, they night consent to meet Fim, in company with their professors.in une of the halls of the university on Satur- dzy next at 4 p.m., when he would give them explanations that would satisfy them.Mr.Francois at once communicated this correspondence to the presidents of the students of both faculties, and soon after he received a repiv from Mr J, TI.Ferron.president of the law students.informing him that he would submit the letters to his renfreres and let hit kpow the result.Miss Quintal.of the \u2018Nouvelles\u2019 offire.\"wishes it to be stazed that the report that i she fainted on the occasicn of the students\u2019 : demonstration yesterdiy was erroncous.| | | Mothers were reminded that THE FIRE RECORD.Minesing.Ont., March 17.\u2014Minesing public school was destroyed by flre on Friday evening which started in the furnace room.The harness shop and residence of Mr.Tracey, adjoining, was also burned down.: > many friends of Mrs.Tracey (\u2018Sarah F.education in departmental work was also | Them y Simpson\u2018 of the \u2018Witness\u2019 [Home Department), will be pleased to learn that despite the fact of unavoidable exposure to the whole family.who were Just recovering from the \u2018grippe, none of them have suffered a relapse.Syracuse, N.Y., March 17.\u2014A fire In Messrs E.C.Stearns & Co.'s bicycle factory in this city last evening entajled a loss of about twenty-five thousand dollars, fully covered by insurance.CALEDONIAN SOCIETY.ANNUAL MEETING AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS.The annual meeting,of the Caledonian Society last evening was characterized by great enthusiasm.Mr.S.S.Bain, the president, occupied the chair, and the parlors of the St.Andrew\u2019s Home were crowded to the door with members.The annual report, already published in these columns, having been read and adopted, together with the financial statement, which showed a balance of $74.56 to credit of current ac- HN EN, 7 1 SI s.S.BAIN.President.count.and S2,200 to credit of rest account, the meeting proceeded to the election of officers.The names of Messrs.S.S.Bain and Wm, Seath being proposed for nomination for premident, Mr.Seath immediately asked to have his name withdrawn.He had heard that there were two cliques in the Caledonian Society-\u2014the Bain clique and the Seath clique.This feeling was prejudicial to the society, and he would do nothing to encourage it.He had been a worker in the society for twenty-five years, and did not now wish it said of him that he G.W.CUNNINGHAM, Second Vice-President.worked against its interests.He must therefore decline nomination in opposition to anv other man.If at some future time the whole society offered him the nomination, he would then accept with pride.Many present were anxious to have Mr.Seath\u2019s name remain, but that gentleman stood firm in his purpose, and Mr.Bain was consequently re-elected by acclamation.The president expressed his thanks, and said that until a few J.T.MITCHELL, First Vice-President.Jays ago he had determined not to serve the society another year, hut he wished the members to rally round him, so that when he left the chair next year he would leave it with honor and dignity.He complimented Mr.Seath on what he had done.It was moved by Mr.Campbell, seconded by Mr.Wm.Drysdale, that Mr.J.T.Mitchell be elected first vice-presi- dent.The seconder said that he had watched with a great deal of pleasure the interest Mr.Mitchell had taken in the Caledonian Society since coming to this country.The motion was carried 5 & .; x ; , ; fanart Tia nest, bend .os mam Te PR oan an A Lp GAT Tee dé : on DAILY WITNESS.unanimously, and Mr, Mitchell was asked for a speech.His reply was characteristic, \u2018 Gentlemen,\u201d he said, \u2018I thank vou kindly for the honor; I'll do the | best I can\u201d Two ballots were taken for second vice-president.On the first, Mr.G.W.Cunningham got fifty-nine votes, Mr.J.H.Hannah fifty, and Mr.S.W.Wells twenty-one; second ballot, Mr.Cunningham sixty-four, Mr.Hannah forty-nine.Mr.Cunningham was therefore declared elected.A motion was brought forward looking to merge the offices of recording and financial secretary into one, and to pay a salary; which, after some discussion, was given the twelve months\u2019 hoist.Messrs.W.(.McAlister and Wm.Robertson were nominated for recording secretary.A ballot being taken, Mr.McAlister was found to have sixty-three votes to Mr.Robertson's fifty-three, and the former was declared -elected.One ballot was cast for treasurer, Mr.J.© Macdiarmid being the choice of the meeting.Messrs.J.C.S.Bennett and Jas.Me- Kenzie were nominated for financial secretary.The former received thirty-two votes, and the latter seventy-nine; Mr.McKenzie was therefore declared elected.The remaining offices were filled as follows: \u2014General committee, Messrs.R.A.Aitken, R.Crawford, R.P.Niven, Win.Arnott, Alex.Lindsay, Andrew McAlis- ter, A.Morrison, jr., .J.C.S.Bennett, J.J.Murray, R.D.Clark, J.R.Ben- ming and P.Youngson: auditors, Messrs.David Seath and David Guthrie; piper, John Mathieson; chaplain, the Rev.Prof.Ross.Mr.James Wright's notice of motion, given at the last meeting, to the effect that Article 8, See.6, of the by-laws be amended so as to read that, in the event of the resignation, death or disqualification of any office-bearer, the vacancy be filled at the first quarterly or special meeting of the society, was voted on, and carried by a, large majority, thus getting back to the original basis.Hearty votes of thanks were tendered Messrs.J.C.S.Bennett and James Moffat, the retiring financial secretary and treasurer respectively, and the meeting adjourned for a week.\u2014\u2014 McGILL COLLEGE NOTES.The McGiil Mining Soclety at Its last ; Tegular meeticg appointed officers for the ensuing year as follows: Honorary president, Dr.Harringtap: president, Mr.P.Butler, Science \"97; vice-pre- sident.Mr.A.Davis, Science, \u201898; secretary, Mr.Kirkpatrick, Science \u201898.Besides transacting all necessary business, the meeting listened to a very interesting and instructive paper on blow-piping by Mr.Turnbull, The paper was all the more valuable to the listenars as it treated a branch of tho subject not included in the lAcGiH course of chemistry.Mr.Irwin, of the C.P.R.engineering department, delivgred a lecture befors the students of the Faculty of Applied Science yesterday on tho legal side of a land surveyor's work in the Province of uebec, The lecture was the first of two, a chee ond to be delivered this afternoon at Jive o'clock.Owing to a large part of the lard In the Province of Quebec being divided in the careless and irregular metnods of the old seigneurs, the work of the surveycr in some districts is most difficult.Added to this there is the fact that even in the townships surveyed by the government, the work has not b:en accurately done, and thero is a great deal of trouble among far- Iners as to boundary lines.Nir.Irwin has had long experience as a surveyor in the province, and his points were very vaiuadlg to any oue making a styay of land surveying.The present term of study at McGill Unli- versity is now drawing to a clcse.Exam- inaiions are the order of thre day in some cases, and in cthers they are expected in the immediate future.In the Medical Faculty the final exa:nination of the final vear are now going on; in the three junior years tho time of trial does not occur until June.This Is owing to a change made three years 380, making the length of the term nine months instead cf six, and the year now graduating is the last under the old s)stem.The convocation in the Medical Faculty will take place on Thursday, April 3, and it will, of course, bs attended not only by the friends of ths students resident in Montreal, but also by the relatives from \u2018home,\u2019 from the many towns and villages throughout the country, from which the students come to study in the halls of \u2018Old McGill.\u2019 In the Faculties of Arts and Applied \u2018Science lectures wil close at the end of next week, and examinations will hegin on April 4, continuing until Easter Monday.The Law examinations will be held at the same time, and the three faculties will unite in a convocation on Friday, April 30.Other convocation dates in the affiliated colleges are, in the Faculty of Veterinary Setence.March 26; Presbyterian CoHege, April 7; Congregational College, April 8; Diocesan College, April 20; Wesleyan College, May 6.As hus already been reportad in the \u2018Witness.\" \u2018class day\u2019 will be.a great and new feature of this year's closing; the commnit- tees in charge of the event meet once a week, and are preparing an grijoyable programme.That the latter will be well carried oui is sssured, for students never fee! quite so exuberant as they do when the \u2018exains\u2019 are over.that is to say.most of the studerts.ramely.those who have been sucecssful in the examinations mentioned, \u2014_\u2014\u2014 SHIPPING.The st2amers St.Louis and Aller rrom New York arrived at Southampton to-day.Queenstown.March 17.\u2014The White Sia; Line SS.Majestic from New York proceeded for Liverpool to-day without mak- \u2018og a landing at this port cwing to the very stormy weather which prevails.THE SS.ANGLOMAN JUDGMENT.Judgment has been delivered at Liverpool in the Board of Trade enquiry into the stranding and loss of the SS.Angloman' on The Skerries.on Feb.9 while on a passage from Boston to Liverpool.The Court was presided over by Mr.W.J.Stewart, the Stipendiary Magistrate.who was assieted by Captain A.Wood, and Captain Semuel Brooks.nautical assessors.The Court found that the stranding and iaterial damnage sustained by the Anglo- man were occasioned by her rvnning on the West Platters Rocks, Skerries, In a fog.her master, Captuin Edward Lewls, not hearing the syren on The Skerries, assuming that his vessel was at a safe distance from them.The Court answered eleven questions, the last of which was that the stranding of, and internal damage to the Angloman were not due to the fault of the master, chief officer or third officer.\\ 8 ADVERTISEMENTS.aE I I INT D A 2 yy (COLONIAL [=louse, |= Phillips === Square: VN RV VTL DD NOD AY (CORSETS.A SHIPMENT OF CORSETS RECEIVED TO-DAY COMPLETES OUR STOCK FOR THIS SEASON.MAKHS- FRENCH, ENGLISH, AMERICAN and CANADIAN CORSETS ALL CAREFULLY SELECTED FOR POINTS OF MERIT.napa ll Experienced Saleswomen are constantly in attend: ance at the Cuiset Counter and their advice regarding the best styles for different forms can De relied on; Fitting rooms adjoining Corset Counter.ASK TO SEE rr THE COLONIAL CORSET IN WHITE, DRAB AND BLACK, At $1.25 Less 5 p.c.for Cash.VW DDD VOD DVN VV HENRY MORGAN & CO, Montreal FEEDS ITE ER OED POR DTP P E0900 DRE 00000S ALACRA LALA AI W.: MERCHANT TAILOR, NOTRE DAME STREET.t897.\u2014SPRING AND SUMMER\u2014 (897.> My Stock is now complete for the coming Season, consisting of the very latest Novelties in Imported Woollens.AN EARLY INSPECTION INVITED.NANSEN\u2019S GREAT BOOK! FARTHEST NORTH.Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram (1893-1896) and of a Fifteen Months\u2019 Sleigh Journey by Dr.Nansen and L'eut Johaosen, by Dr.Fridtjnj Nansen ; w th an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup.Captain of the Fram, with over 100 Full-page and Numerous Text Illustrat ous, Sixteen Colored Plates in Fac simile from Dr.Napsen's own Water color, Pastel and Pencil Sketches, an Eichel Portrait, Two Photogravures and Four Maps, about 1309 pages, 2 volumes, Large 8vo.Gilt Top and Uncut Edges, $10.Send orders to be delivered March 20th, to WM.FOSTER BROWN, Mansfield and St.Catherine St.UP TO DATE tters Again to the Fore.Just received by express 5 Cases of Hats from New York, the Swell Special and 5th Avenue, (two of the Latest Novelties in Headwear).1729 \u2014\u2014D FFGHD\u2014 HASLEY BROTHERS, 2252 St.Catherine Street, opp.Victoria Street i ALF TONE ETCHINGS, Equal to the best produced, at 15 cents per | ELECTTROYPING AND STEREOTYPING square inch.Special rates for large quan- ! 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T)ESIGNING, Corner Craig and Bieury streotæ ex bre | : gere + A ARTE Eri Le.Ro rm REA CRE + FARR YE PR SE JEP =~ A THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.4 Weekly Calendar, COCHRANE\u2019S AUDITORIUM, lishmen listen to.Prince Arthur Skating Rink.GRAND FANCY DRESS CARNAL OF THE SEASON.BY SPECIAL REQUEST, TO-NIGHT, March 17th.ICE IN SPLENDID CONDITION.SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS.Admission as Usual.Cars on Bleury and St.Lawrence streets to Rink.Band Every Wednesday and Saturday Night.WEDNESDAY, March 17.Turspay, MarcH 25.BEV HERBERT N.CASSON, THE ORATOR, POET AND MUSICIAN OF BOSTON J Will address the following meetings: / March 17, WEDNESDAY, 8 p.m., Frafer- nity Hall, Wellington street.Point \u2018St.Cherles.Subject\u2014 \u2018The Evolution of Competition.\u2019 : March 21, SUNDAY, 3 p.m., The Philosophical Scciety's Hall.corner St.Catherine and McGill College avenue, Subject\u2014''No Religien but Love.\u201d NO ADMISSION FEE.SILVER COLLECTION.17 TaurspAy, Marcu 18.YOUNG WOMEN\u2019S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.895 Dorchester street.A full attendance of members is requested on THURSDAY MORNING next, March 15th, at 11 a.m.Subject\u2014Meeting of Conference of \u2018\u2018International Board\u201d in Montreal in October next.CHARLOTTE LEARMONT.Committee of Arrangements.Convener, Y OUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.New Buililinz, 896 Dorchester st.THURSDAY, March 18, 8-10 p.m, Soclal for Associate Members, Members of Classes and their Friends, 16 RESERVE - THURSDAY NIGHT, for the St.Jude's Church Young Men's Bible Class Drive around the Two Mountains to St.Michel.Sleighs leave corner Vinet and Coursol, and corner Sherbrooke and Cadieux streets at 8.15 p.m., sharp.Tickets, 35 and 25 cents, including refreshments.17 Quarterly Rally MONTREAL C.E.UNION ZION CHURCH, Cor.Mance and Milton sts.THURSDAY EVENING, March 18, 7.55 p.m.Consecration Service.Address sident GUNN, \u2018\u2019 Under Authority.Roll Call.by Provincial Pre- Good Singing.COME .17 \"THE USUAL BIBLE READING in connection with the Y.W.C.T.U., will be held on THURSDAY AFTERNOON, at 2 o'clock, in the Evangelistic Hall, St.Catherine street: immediately after the officers for the ensuing year will be elected.A full attendance is requested.ETHEL F.WILSON, Rec.-Sec, 17 Fripay, Marcu 19.Y.W.C.A.Popular Lecture Course.896 Dorchester Street, Montreal.Tickets for Course, 81.00.Single Lecture, 25c.Associate members frec.They will please present their membership tickets.FRIDAY, March 19, 1897, 8 p.m.ILLUSTRATED LECTURE.Early English Books, Horn Books, Chap.Books, etc J.B.LEARMONT, Esq.FRIDAY, March 26, 1597, 8 p.m.** Wonders of the Yosemite,\" Rev.MANLY BENSON, D.D FRIDAY, April 2, 1897, 8 p.m.* Scotch Readings,\u201d Rev.JAS.BARCLAY, FRIDAY April 9, 1897, 8 p.m.* A Hero of the Olden Time,\u201d Rev.Prof.ROSS, FRIDAY, April 23, 1897, 8 p.m, Musical and Literary Entertainment, Recitations, Songs an:l Instrumental 8:lections.D.D.B.D.OUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.New Building, 896 Dorchester street.Lecture on FRIDAY EVENING, March 19th, 1897, at Eight o'clock, By Mr.J.B.LEARMONT, \u2018Early English Horn Books, Chap Books, Ete,\u201d Illustrated by examples, Facsimiles of Horn Books, Copies of Chap Books, Boston Primer, Biblla Pauperum, Chained Book, etc.Admission.25 cents.Associate Members Free.They will please show their own tickets.16 ACADEMY OF MUSIC.FRIDAY and SATURDAY NIGHTS, March 19 and 20, at 8.15 p.m.TWO SONG RECITALS.Mr.MAX HEINRICH, Sale of seats begins Monday, March 15, at Academy of Music Box Office.Prices\u201425c, 56e.EXTRA! BY REQUEST SPECIAL MATINEE, SATURDAY, 3c and 81, at 2.30 p.m.Entire ground floor.50c.alecony.23 B 17 Under the Distinguished Patronage of heir Excellencies the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen.MISS MARIE HOLLINSHEAD'S CONCERT, Windsor Hall, TUESDAY EVENING, March 23,97.Prices, 75c, 50c, 25c.Box Plan at Nordheimer's and Shaw's, 16 FuTurRe MEETINGS.RESERVE THE 25th OF MARCH, CONCERT EAST END METHODIST CHURCH See Advertisement Later.Order of Scottish Clans.NINTH ANNUAL CONCERT AND ENTERTAINMENT OF - CLAN MACLENNAN, No.46, WILL BE HELD IN DRUMMOND HALL, Drummond street, FRIDAY Evening, March 26, Admission, Concert, 35c and 50c.Concert and Entertainment Ticket, 50c.17 ASSOCIATION, A RT Phillips Square THE 17th ANNUAL SPRING EXHIBITION THE WORK OF CANADIAN ARTISTS Will Open on APRIL Ist.Entry Forms may be obtained at the gallery.SUBSCRIPTION RATES.Daily Witness, 83.00, Weekly Witness, 81.00 ; with reductions to clubs ; Northern Messenger, 30c ; 10.co ies to one address, $2.25 ; 20, $4.40 ; 50, 10.50 ; 100, .$ For at Pain add $1.04 per annum for postage on Weekly Witness: 28c on Northern Messenger : 33.60 on Daily Witness.The last edition of the DAILY WITNESS is delivered in the city every evening of publication at $4.00 per anpum.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 .ADVERTISING RATES.DAILY WITNESS.Five lines and upwards, 10c per line.on favorable terms.WEEKLY WITNESS, With large type or cuts, 20c per line.One-third reduction if set in our usual small advertising types.Special contract rates.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 All business communications should be addressed * John Dougall & Son,\u201d \u2018Witness\u2019 Office, Montreal, and all letters to the Editor should be addressed + Editor of the * Witness,\u201d Montreal\u2019 Contract oNM-2 MARCH CES 25 SI MIT WT FIs 11] 2] 3] 4] 5] 6 7 14 21 28 The Daily Witness, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1807.Mr.Taillon turned his guns on the bishops and the Roman Catholic separate school system of this province when he declared at Hull yesterday that some of the ¥rench-Canadians whom he was addressing \u2018had, he believed, never received an hour\u2019s education in their lives.\u2019 That is just the fault the Manitobans find with separate school systems, The high probability is, however, that those Hull voters who were standing out for liberal education in Manitoba were among the most liberally educated people in Mr, Taillon\u2019s audience.ce Mr.Foster\u2019s phrase \u2018splendid isolation\u2019 has become current coin in Great Britain, but the application of it seems to have passed from Great Britain to Greece, We print to-day a sermen on the Cretan crisis preached at one of the great manufacturing centres of Yorkshire by a leading Nonconformist orator, the manuscript of which has been obtained for us.It is interesting, not only as indicating, as our correspondent remarks, ke lf - +n the sentiments of Englishmen on the pcsition of things in the Levant, but also as showing what sort of sermons Eng- There is a class of preachers with whom the doctrines of remission of sing and of the divine indwelling give place largely to the discus- sicn of the problems of the day\u2014the- kingdom of God and His righteousness.The moving and vnanimous passing of a resolution after tris sermon was not a part of the programme, but a spontaneous suggestion from the audience.It does not, after all, differ very widely from the way in which the action of the Ontario Government on the liquor question is being dealt with by a large number of Christian congregations.We would suggest, however, that a formal public service should be a very exceptional place at which to commit any one to any view.This can only be fairly done where there is opportunity for free discussion and where dissent will not seem out of place.-\u2014\u2014 THE APPEAL TO ROME.The organ of those Orange political leaders who have invariably been in al- lance with the priest party among the Roman Catholics and with that political party which has always bargained and is now bargaining with the Roman Catholic bishops for the votes of their flocks, is decrying Mr.Laurier for seeking protection at Rome for his followers who are being persecuted to the death and beyond the grave for exercising a free vote.We shall waive the point of form under which it has always been properly e%plained that those who have visited Rome have gone there not as the emissaries of Mr.Laurier but as representing a group of Liberal members of parliament whose seats are imperilled by ecclesiastical threats, seeing that with that group Mr.Laurier was no doubt in complete understanding and accord.1t 1s sufficient to say that these messengers were not sent by the Canadian Government as ambassadors to the papal court.It is fair to ask what any man of sense woul do under the circumstances if he dared.Mr.Laurier and each of his followers has been denounced by his ecclesiastical guide as a bad Catholic.They think they are nc such thing.They think that they know the interests of their church and people as far as school matters are concerned better than the bishops do.They think also that the Roman authorities, whd are the only authorities the bishops recognize, will vindicate their right of judgment in this matter and will not allow them tn be hounded out of their church as bad Cath- olice.But whether they believed this or not, it would only be their duty to their church to appeal to its highest authorities and give them the opportunity of saying whether they are bad Catholics or not.To deny them the right to do this is to deny them the right to be Roman Catholics®t all.Under the circumstances it was a very brave thing to do.IN BONAVENTURE TO-DAY.The Bonaventure election, which is taking place to-day attracts much interest throughout the Dominion inasmuch as it is in some degree a trial of the strength of the Laurier Government in thie province in a constituency which is rather favorable to the government.Bishop Blais, in whose diocese the county is, has gone as far as he felt to be safe in open opposition to the administration.He required an extraordinary pledge of the Liberal candidate that he would oppose the school settlement and all who supported it.His delegate who carried the pledge is said to have declared that non-compliance would be followed by a mandate denouncing him, but Bishop Blais states that he did not authorize such a warning, and no mandement followed.The parish priests throughout the constituency did, however, from the pulpit denounce the Liberals and tell their flocks that they were in duty bound to their church and religion to vote for the Conservative candidate.One curé of Liberal tendencies was displaced for the day from his own pulpit in order that a Conservative priest might de- ncunce the Liberals from it.What effect the interference of the clergy has had will be discovered to-day.There are a good many Protestants in the county, and many of the French-speak- ing Roman Catholics are Jerseymen and Frenchmen rather than French-Cana- dians and are not inclined to be submissive to the Chureh.The proportion of fishermen, seamen gpd traders is quite large in proportion to farmers, and maritime people are, as a rule, broad-minded in their views, The county is a peculiar one, composed of a single line of townships along the north coast of the Baie Chaleurs and the north bank of the Res- tigouche river.The Intercolonial Railway vote, which is said by some to be likely to go for the government of the day, is not large, as the railway simply crosses the narrow width of the constituency through two townships.The Bai: de Chaleurs Railway runs along the coast through five townships, and will doubtless be a source of voting strength to the government.Mr.Guitg, the Liberal candidate, is a merchant and resident in the county, while Mr.Cyr is clerk of the city of Quebec.At the general election in June last the constituency gave the late Mr.Fauvel, the Liberal member, whose death caused the present vacancy, a majority of 313 over Mr.Roy, the Conservative candidate, but Mr.Fauvel was a very popular and strong candidate, being a big business man who employed many men.Unless the influence of the bishops and the priests has been far greater in this county than has been supposed the Liberal candidate, Mr.Guité, will be elected by a good majority, though the Conservative leaders, Sir Adolphe Caron and Mr.Casgrain, have been very active, while, so far as we have moticed, no member of the Laurier Government has been in the constituency.+ WHY SUBSIDIZE ?All the journals which advocate the immediate construction of the Crow's Nest Pass railway declare that it will pay from the beginning.From the fact that the directors of the Canadian Pacific Railway in their annual report to the shareholders urged the immediate undertaking of the railway by the company and had, relying upon their sanction, already taken steps toward that end by surveys and so forth, and have since, \"it is reported, bought the steel rails for the track, it may be taken for granted that they are of the same opinion as the journals, that the line is a good thing.Moreover, it is said that a deal has been made by which the Canadian Pacific if it builds the road will become a partner with a syndicate which has secured from the British Columbia Government a grant of the coal fields of the Kootenay valley, which are said to be the richest coal fields in America.In the face of all these glowing prospects of big returns for the fortunate constructors of the railway, those who advocate its construction by the Canadian Pacific countenance the demand made upon the government for 4 public subsidy to the company for carrying through such a paying project.These somewhat eager and obsequious advo- cales say, \u2018Yes, certainly, subsidize the company, but in return for the subsidy make the company consent to release the country from certain monopoly powers which were granted to it by an unwise government and which have enabled it so to tyrannize over the people of Manitoba and the North-West Territories, that they hate it, and will not listen for a moment to the proposition that it shall be allowed to build the Crow\u2019s Nest Pass railway.\u2019 It is well to secure the release of the people of the North-West from the oppression of the Canadian Pacific monopoly so far as that can be done by changing the terms of the agreement with that company; but is there any need of subsidizing the company to that end ?If the railway is such a good thing, the charter will be of quite sufficient value to secure the forfeit of the monopoly clauses, for the company canont build the road without a charter being granted by parliament.And the charter should be so limited and conditioned that it will not create a new monopoly and a fresh oppression, but will guard the rights of the public.There should be no question of public subsidy at all.For a long time to come it seems to us the Canadian Government should cease to subsidize railways.Canada has already enormously great railway facilities in proportion to her population and even great emough for the present possible development of her fertile and much of her mineral and forest regions.Canada is dependent upon British capital for the construction of railways, and already British railway and financial journals are calling the attention of investors to the fact that Canada has gone faster and farther in the direction of railway development by government encouragement than any other of the colonies, and that even so her railways yield smaller returns than those of any of the other colonies.In explanation it may be said that our great roads were political rather than commercial projects, both the Intercol- onial and the Canadian Pacific having been built as the price of confederating WEDNESDAY, Marcu 17, 1897.0 yy mo ROC and consolidating fhe provinces.Then | THE HOSPITAL NURSING SCHEME the fall in the price of wheat has prevented the Canadian Pacific from filling up our fertile lands in the North-West with farmers.But having spent so heavily upon these and other railways, the time has come when our railways should hereafter be purely commercial ventures, undertaken by corporations composed of private capitalists who will pay for the privileges granted them rather than require public subsidies.The United States Congress never subsidized companies, and yet railway construction has been very rapid there, and more than suflicient capital has been attracted into that form of investment.As long as the government shows any inclination to aid in securing capital, so long will private capital hold back in each case of projected railway construction until all that can be obtained from the government is obtained.And the government can hardly go much further now without injuring the credit of the country.The attitude the British railway and financial journals are now taking toward railway investment in Canada may be judged from the following article from the \u2018Railway Review,\u201d which merely summarizes the facts, arguments and criticisms of the English press :\u2014 English journals are impressed with the idea that Canada is building her railways too fast.The latest available statistics show that there are 16,091 miles of line laid in the Dominion; and the capital expended is $894,660,559.Towards the cost of the construction of this mileage the national government has contributed an average of $9.369 per mile, the provincial governments $1,847, and the municipalities $881 a mile.Altogether the subsidies amount in round figures to $195,000,000.It is held that the results obtained do not justify liberality so great, A correspondent points out that in Cape Colony the proportion of the net revenue to the capital cost of the railways is 5.75 percent; in India, 4.96 percent; in South Australia, 3.13 percent; in New South Wales, 3.46 percent; in New Zealand, 2.78 percent; but in Canada the proportion is only 1.57 percent, In Tasmania alone, of all the British colonies, is there a lower Teturn.The cost of a railway, it has been laid down by some authorities, should not be more than ten times its annual traffic, that is to say, the annual trafic should yield ten percent of the capital cost.The application of this test to Canadian railways shows that the percentage of traffic to cost is about 534 instead of 10.This result is decidedly disappointing.\u2018Transport\u2019 is of the opinion that it is due not so much to reckless expenditure on unre- munerative lines\u2014for it is a well understood principle of railway building in the western hemisphere that the railways should precede the population\u2014as to an unsucces- ful immigration policy.Immigrants have been attracted to Canada, but after a few years\u2019 residence greater inducements have been held out on the other side of the border, and many desirable settlers have migrated to the United States.Possibly the development of the mineral wealth of Ontario and British Columbia will be more succesful in encouraging settlement.Canada is a country of immense undeveloped resources, and there can he no doubt about the highly favorable prospects of all her undertakings and enterprises.Agriculture is really as to possible production in its infancy ; our mineral riches are just being discovered.The next rush of emigration from Europe will certainly be to Canada, as the United States has no longer the agricultural attractions that Canada has, and her mineral wealth has been pretty well exhausted.Besides, immigrants are no longer welcomed with open arms across the border.The boast of the United States that it is the refuge of the poor and oppressed and the overburdened of Europe is now heard no more.It is very frankly selfish ; those who are now in the United States want the country for themselves.Canada still welcomes all immigrants who are able and willing to work, whether illiterate or learned, whether rich or poor.The prospects are that the Dominion will now fill up rapidly, and all who travel over Canadian railways with open eyes cannot but perceive that they are properties which will increase immensely in value as the country fills up.At the same time, they are just now quite sufficient for our present needs,so far as government is concerned, and any further construction should surely be on a strictly commercial basis.A LADIES\u2019 MINING SYNDIGATE.Toronto, March 17.\u2014A ladies\u2019 mining syndicate, modelled on the lines of that of the ladies of Spokane, is now being formed most successfully, the members of which live in Toronto and in places throughout Canada, from Halifax to Vancouver.The company will be managed entirely by women, the manual work only being done by men.The property they are acquiring is in British Columbia and is most desirable, and the shares in the company are all taken up with the exception of tive.Miss Clara Brett Martin will be the legal adviser of the company, which is being organized by Miss R.L.Leigh-Spencer, mining broker, of Vancouver, B.C.| (To the Editor of the \u2018 Witness.) | Sir, \u2014 Experience surely teaches us that i there will be a scale of gradation in the | payment of trained nurses.As] have elsewhere stated, she who unites in herself in the greatest degree those qualities constituting a thoroughly trained nurse, will in the hardest of times command liheral compensation, possibly even more than two dollars a day, whilst her less gifted < sisters may have to accept a lower scale of payment or be unemployed; the law 1s 1nevitable, and short-sighted will she be who fails to recognize it.1 do not pretend to say that at present, whilst the demand for nurses is not met by the supply, we shall se a nurse with « diploma from either the Montreal General Hospital or the Royal Victor drawing as little as fifty cents, seventy- five cents or even a dollar a day, but within five or six years that contingency will probably ensue, and it is to ensure the higher scale of pay that I would urge upon those who are still in tr@ining not tu rest satisfied with a mere pass, but to be nothing less than a thoroughly able and qualified nurse\u2014the higher her aim, the nearer will she attain to perfection, which she will rarely approach if she fails to take less than \u2018the three years course,\u2019 the time chosen by leading hospitals in the old and new world.I should like to impress that upon nurses at present in training, some of whom under a former arrangement have only bound themselves for two years.In medicine and surgery, scarcely a month passes by without some remarkable discovery, and specialists are multiplying; such facts are warnings to nurses, handmaids to the medical man, that if they ere to advance \u2018 pari passu \u2019 they must not begrudge an extra year's study and work.Probationers will hereafter he expected to sign for a three years\u2019 tram- ing.I am indebted to the \u2018Herald \u2018 ior the encouraging allusions to my nursing scheme in connection with the Montreal General Hospital Jubilee Nursing Home; no less grateful em I to the \u2018 Witness\u2019 for its Saturday's editorial, which though recognizing difficulties to be surmounted, does not stamp them as insurmountable.All I ask for is a trial, mistakes will be made for which reme dies will be found, but the object aimed at commends itself to every one.Much at heart is the desire of the committee of management to satisfy the clamant wants of those of limited means and the poor; they are alive to the trust reposed in them by the hospital's five hundred govaraors; they seek a continuance of that trust and the liberality which has never failed.Thus armed, obstacles will disappear and the scheme in its entirety will be in operation before the expiration of this jubilee year.The \u2018 Witness\u2019 article has afforded me opportunity of placing myself aright with the nurses.I am far from contending that two dollars a day is an excessive return for the services of a thoroughly efficient nurse, for it must not be over looked that she is able to earn that oniv after an apprenticeship of three years of such constant, trying, and often repugnant labor as one does not care to contemplate; the highest skill, tact and practice will occasionally gain still more liberal compensation, but it seems to me to be as inevitable as water finding its level, that within an interval of say five or six years, the accretion to their number by graduates from the Montreal General Hospital or the Royal Victoria Hospital will render the supply in excess of the demand by families able and willing to pay two dollars a day.Then will follow the survival of the fittest, by which I mean that the less capable nurse will be obliged to accept a wage of pos- siblv even fifty cents, I deprecate the necessity, nevertheless it may come.Such a return is wretchedly inadequate-\u2014even two dollars a day is a little enough when off-time is allowed for, such as the annual three weeks\u201d holiday, and DUrief interval unengaged when changing from one patient to another.I suppose the year's compensation may be 1neasured by tive or six hundred dollars under the very best circumstances, what then of the worst ?I shall not be surprised to learn that graduates will, in many instances, prefer to receive twenty to twenty-five dollars per month and constant employment in connection with the hospital rather than encounter the uncertainty of casual engagements by the general public.F.WOLFERSTAN THOMAS.OBITUARY.The many friends of Mr.James Morrison, contractor.will be sorry to hear of the bereavement which he has met in the death of his father, which occurred at Stornoway, Scotland, on March 2.\u2014\u2014p WESTMOUNT W.C.T.U.General Neal Dow's birthday will be celebrated on Saturday, March 20, at 8 p.m.in Bethlehem Church, corner «! Western and Clarke avenues.The puir lic are cordially invited.See Thurs day\u2019s advertisement.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 A PHILADELPHIA TRAGEDY.Philadelphia, Pa., March 17\u2014 Frederick Franks, aged thirty-seven.at six o\u2019clock this morning shot and killed i son, William, aged nine years.and dun gerously wounded his daughter.Anche.tive vears, and then shot and fatallh nu jured himself.The tragedy is ~.d to be the outcome of a jealous quarrel with his wife. Loo nt da.Von.rar d- they miust an | for rsing treal om»; ness\u2019 \u2018heh Bull - naur- trial, eme med ghi- ver.OUI ears | Te- > tn and nore s MIE y 118 five uni- real nria Pess wy ith dic oh WEDNESDAY, MarcH 17, 1897.THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.THE LESSARD MURDER.Sheehan Found Guilty of Manslaughter.KIERNAN PLEADS GUILTY TO LODBERY NO BILL IN THE MOCK MARRIAGE CASE-\u2014 OTHER CANES DISPOSED OF.Ar the opening of the Court of Queen's Be: h yesterday Mr.3t.Jean, Q.C., pri- var prose ular in the alleged eriminal libel vas azaint Trefle Charpentier, asked that ti case be held over until the next term of the Court oO Queens Bench: This was srarted and all the witnesses in the case «no had been summoned to appear before tie grand jury were discharged.Edward Daniel Kiernan pleaded \u2018guilty' to the sev- val charges of theft and of receiving stolen Bvods, LU\u201c no allusion was made regarding the Cochenthaler jewel robtery of two years | ago.a confession of which has already been published.l'aniel sheshan.charged with the murder oi Lurie Lessard.was called to the bar and the vase fur the prosecution was continued.Fabien Lavoie, the father of Joseph Lavoie, for whom a bench warrant was issued he being a witness in the Lessard murder case, stepped into the box and ex- piained that his son had.since the time of the niurder been absent in the United states as he had obtained a situation there and ronsequentiv he could not be present.Fis Honor then caused Jos.Lavoie's deposition whirh had been taken at the prelim'nary polive court proceedings to be read bit 1t was not of an interesting character.George Lamontagne deposed he was ac- Quainted wirh the deceased and the prisoner.On Jzu.5 he met Lycie Lessard on Craig street who induced him to pawn his! watch.Afterwards she bought a bottle of! whiskey and went home about four o'clock.Ile then left her.but returned in the evening to get the tirket for his watch.At a hotel in the vivinity of 1312 Notre Dame ! street.he was informed that Lucie had met with an accideut.The deceased was addict- =d to liquor and she also indulged in morphine.This closed the case for the prosecutlon.The defence endeavored to show that the evidence, which had been adduced by Emile Lemizux, even under oath, was not the truth, by placing Constables Richard and McLaughlin In the wituess box and proving : that she was a woman of exceedingly bad reputation.The officers admitted she was a discrderly character of the worst type.but refused to state that she would !ie when under oath.The defence further endeavored to secure the testimony of the governor of the jail, Mr.Vallee, and Mr.Forget, Clerk of the Recorder's Court, regarding the char- arte of the woman, but His Honor ruled it our as illegal.Mr.Dubreull then addressed the jury, oc- \u2018Upying the attention of the court an bour and at half past twelve Mr.J.L.Archam- bault.Crown Prosecutor, commenced his address.shortly afrer one o'clock the court ad- Journed for lunch.At a quarter past two o'clock Mr.Jus- toe Wurtele commenced his charge to the Ju:Y !N the Lucie Lessard murder case,and trs avcused, Danie! Sheehan, was called t.the bar tl: Honor pointed out that a verdict of mifrder could not be brought against the prisoner, but Sheehan couid be found guflty 0° manslaughter or aggravated assault.At three o'clock the jury retired, and ef- ter Falf an hour's deliberation they returned and declared the prisoner guilty of menslaughter with a recommendatien to the mercy of the Court.Mr.J.F.Dubreuil, counsel for the accused.announced his intention of appealing from the verdict of the jury.The Grand Jury returned the following true bills: Jean Michaud and Frederic Michaud, theft.Noel Goyette, theft.Olivier Charbonneau, theft.Alexander, Couture and Antoine Gauthier, attempting to escape from St.Vincent de Paul penitentiary.William Jackson, attempting to murder John Crawford, a fellow convict in «St.Vincent de Paul penitentiary.\u2018 Martin Prendergast, burglary.Edward F.Jones and Ernest Palmer, four charges of theft.Louis Goyette, Edward Lafrancois, Ernest Lafrancois and Telesnphore Levesque, highway robbery.George W.Cameron.seven charges of theft.NO BILLS, Honore Chasse, editor of the \u2018Avant Garde.\u2019 criminal libel.Richard McKinnon and Peter Timmons.accursed of enticing a young chambermaid into a mcck marriage on Dec.6, at the Bx change Hotel, Point St.Charles.Lauer Belmont, fraud.«+ J.B.Beaudry.theft.Wm.Boyd.false pretences.The Court then adjourned until this morning.\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.Thursday evening.March 18, will be a delightful occasion to those who attend the meeting in McGill normal school, 32 Belmont street.Mr.Benjamin Sulte, the eminent historian of Ottawa, will lecture; Prof.J.P.Stephen, Principal of the Montreal School of Elocution, will read: Mr.C.J.Murphy.will render a number of airs on the violpncello, and Principal Humphrey.of the ! rdeen Scheol, will submit a few original essays.Proceedings begin at eight p.m.Mr.Suite will deal with an interesting period of history, which is not generally well understood\u2014the period of seigniorial tenure.and show how it was that during the entire French regime the population of this country.at most.only amounted to about sixty thoysand, when indeed under more favored ri imstances it might have reached upwards of a million.THE COMPANY MUST PAY.Judge DeLorimier rendered judgment yesterday in the \u201case of Alexis Jacquemin vs.the Montreal Ftr-et Railway Conipany.This waz au action for fifteen hundred dollars damages on account of injuries received by | being struck hy one of the company's cars at the corner 62 Craig and Sanguinet streets, Tha Court held the company responsible, bur considering thar plaintiff had been guilty of rertributory negligence to a certain extent the damages were reduced to three hundred dollars.\u2014\u2014_\u2014p> INTERESTING NOTE CASE.In the case of Drapeau vs.Pominville, the plaintiff claimed $366 on a promissory note, and the defendant plgaded that the action was premature.The note by its terms was \u2018payable\u2019 on Nov.21 next.and being dated Nov.7, 1595, was ther-fare not payable before Nov.21.1898.However, the action was \u2018aken as if the note was payable on Nov.ZI, 1465.In rendering judgment, Judge Doherty hold that if there was any ambiguity in the t.»ms n! the note they shou:d be interpreted i \u201cavorably tn defendant, the party bound, and against the plaintiff, the party stipulat- i-z who had drawn up the note himself.Nn error had been proved.and the actlon coast he dismissed.NUMISMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.GIFTS RECEIVED OF A LARGE NUMBER OF BOOKS\u2014NEW MEMBERS ELECTED.At the monthly meeting of the society, held last evening, there were present the Hon.Justice Baby, who presided; Mr.Rouer Roy, Q.C., Dr.Laberge, Dr.J.W.Mount, Messrs.H.J.Tiffin, R.W.McLachlan, Emmanuel Ohlen, P.O.Tremblay, Vicomte De La Barthe and Mr.D.A.Lafortune.The curator reported that the Canada Engraving and Lithographing Company, through Mr.G.B.Burland, had presented to the soclety a beautiful book plate with 25.000 copies for the books in the library: a hearty vote of thanks was unanimously adopted tp be sent to Mr.Burland.A large number of books were reported by the curator as gifts to the library, among which were: \u2014From Mr.Alfred Sandham, Toronto, 'Pinkerton\u2019s Essay on Medals\u2019; the Hon.Justice \\Wurtele, six volumes of Parliamentary reports; Mr, Geo.Johnson \u2018Statistical Year Book of Canada, 1894 and 1895\u2019; Mr.Samuel Baylis, \u2018Our City Sports\u2019 and \u2018Souvenir of the M.A.A.A.Pair, 1853\"; the Provincial Secretary, Quebec, reports for 1895, four volumes; Royal Academy of Stockholm, two vols.of proceedings; Dr.Edmund Gauvreau, Quebec, twenty volumes: the Hon.Justice Baby, twenty-flve pamphlets, civic and other reports, \u2018Biographical Notice of Plessis, Bishop of Quebec,\u2019 debates in the House of Commons in 1774 on Canada\u2019; Mr.L.W.Sicotte, seventy voluipes parliamentary reports, also the 188 volumes from Prince Bonaparte, already alluded to in the \u2018Witness.\u201d To the Gallery, there was from Mr.and Mrs.Albert Lewis a very fine copy of Whitefield's view of Montreal in 1852; the Hon.Justice Baby.photograph of gold medals given in 1832 by the citizens of Montreal and Quebec to Duvernay on his release from imprisonment; a lithograph portrait of the, Hon.B.Joliette.founder of Joliette.From Mr.W.D.Lighthall, pho- tcgraphs of the church, presbytere and old fortifications of Caughnawaga; from Dr.Carlos, Buenos Ayres, a large map of the telegraph lines in Argentina; from the Hon.Justice Baby, a vellum pocket book once owned by M.De La Verendrye, discoverer of the North-West; eutograph letter of Major-General Christie; P.O.Tremblay, seventeen medals of the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889.Dr.Laberge exhibited an old folio volume of Josephus, dated 16%3.The following gentlemen were elected rembers:\u2014Dr.E.P.Lachapelle, T.A.Scott, Charles D.Gaudet, J.A.Marsan, tnd James B.Cantin.On the proposition of the Vicomte De La Barthe, Baron De Lcurtoulon, directeur, and M.Coll De Bavie, editor of the \u2018Revue de Monde Latin,\u201d Peris, were elected corresponding raembers of the society.Also in accordance with the new rule of the scciety, Messrs.Henry J.Tiffin, George Hague, Herman H.Wolff.R.B.Angus, R, Bickerdike, R.Wil- ecn-Smith, H.Montagu Allan, W.W.Ogil- vie, T.G.Shaughnessy, and the Hon.L.J.Forget, were elected life governors, they having contributed one hundred dollars each towards the founding of the museum The corresponding secretary reported havi received letters from a number of for- den societies in France, Sweden, Norway.and the United States, promising to exchange publications with the society.Also.one from the Russian ambassador in London.sending one of the silver medals distributed at the coronation of the Czar at Moscow.A letter was received from Mr.H.H.Lyman, calling the attention of the society, to the propositicn Lefore the Qn>- bec City Council for the demolition of St.John's Gate, asking that the society should protest against such vandalism.It was claimed by the members that the society had no right to take part in what was going cn in another city.still as the walls cf Quebec belonged to the whole of Canada.a resolution could be passed on that ground.pr THE BY-LAWS MUST STAND.Judge Pagnuelo rendered judgment yesterday in a case of A.Brosseau vs.the Corporation of St.Lambert.The plaintiff, a municipal elector of St.Lambert, asked that two by-laws of the municipality concerning a business license and market be set aside, on the ground that those by-laws were to come into force on the day of promulgation, contrary to the provisions of the Municipal Code, under which by-laws should only eome into force fifteen days after promulgation.The Court dismissed the action on the ground that under article 156 of the same Municipal Code, this illegality was not sufficient to annul the by-law, where, as in the present instance, the ratepayers suffered no injustice thereby.\u2014\u2014\u2014 MASONIC \u201cAT HOMES\u2019 The \u2018At Home' to be given by the members of Lodge of Antiquity, No.1, A.F.& A.M.Q.R., in the Queen's Hall Assembly Rooms, this evening, in honor of lre- land's patron saint, promises to be a great success.Members of the militia who purpose attending are requested to appear in uniform.The forty-third annual \u2018At Home\u2019 of St.Lawrence Lodge, No.640, E.R., takes in Federation Hall, St.Catherine street, this evening.peau MINING NOTES.LE ROI MINE ORE\u2014A DISCOVERY OF VAST IMPORTANCE.-\u2014 Some time ago, Mr.Rust, of the Tacoma smelter, suggested that the low grade siliceous ore of the Le Roi mine was really a free milling and concentrating, instead of a smelting one.A test made at the O.K.mill proved him to be right, and what this means to theg Trail Creek mines and district, is told În the laïguage of the \u2018Miner.\u2019 The \u2018Miner\u2019 is a little too sanguine, perhaps, but, granting this, the discovery is of wide-reaching importance.The \u2018Miner\u2019 says :\u2014 \u2018The test made at the O.K, mill by the managers of the Le Rol mine demonstrates that the low grade siliceous ore of that mine is really a free milling and concentrating instead of a smelting proposition.The revolution that this discovery will effect in this camp will be enormous, as it is certain that many, if not most of the other mines in the camp, have ore of the same character, and in mary cases in even greater quantity.The treatment of our low grade ores is practically solved at a stroke.\u201cThe importance of this discovery is so stupendous that the \u2018Miner\u2019 shrinks from following it out to its logical conclusion.We have always had faith in Ross- land, and from our knowledge of its ore bodies and their values we have never entertained any doubts as to the greatness of its future, and yet in our most hopeful moods we never dreamt of the possibility of ore averaging less than seven dollars per ton being worked to a profit.\u2018The test just made by the Le Roi Company is not, however, to be taken as de- mnnstrating that all our siliceous ores are free milling or sus-eptible of concentration.Other tests will be necessary before it can be definitely determined just what ores will yield as good results in a mill as has the Le Roi.Now, however, that it is found that such unpromising looking ore has given such unexpected results, other mine managers will enter on similar experiments with their \u2018ores.and we feel that it is entirely likely that the next year will wit- ress the erection of dozens of mills at various mines Just as the past year saw the installation of numerous air compressors.\u2019 _.rs PURE 20e SPORTS AND GAMES.HOCKEY.INTERMEDIATE CHAMPIONSHIP.The intermediate interprovincial championship hockey match between Berlin and Montreal resulted in-a victory for the latter by 10 goals to 1.The teams were: \u2014 Montreal\u2014Hamilton, goal; Norris, point ; Bickerdike, cover point; Mussen, Hough, Locke, McLeod, forwards.Berlin\u2014Beemer, goal; Gibson, point; J.E.Seagram, cover point; E.Seagram, McDonald, Stone, Dixon, forwards.THE VOLTIGEUR HOCKEY TEAM.The Voltigeur Hockey Club will play their last match of the season on Friday evening next, vvhen they will meet the Valleyfield team in Valleyfleld.\u20ac CRESCENTS DEFEATED.A friendly game of hockey was played at the White Star rink on Saturday between the Wild Rese hockey team and the Crescent street team.The Wild Rose won by a score of 9 to 1, The teams lHued up as follows: i} Wild Rose\u2014H.Steyenson, goal; C.Dennis, point; M.Levin, \\cover point; R.Peck, G.DeLima, P.Dunlop and E.Strachan, forwards.Crescents\u2014H.Strachan, goal; J.Hains, roint; M.Goldstein, cover pcint; B.Bur- ney, W.Thcrep, A.Loeb and G.Stewart, forwards.\u2018Referee\u2014Mr.C, Lindsay.HUDSON VS.ST.ANDREWS.Hudson, Que., March 17.\u2014The St.Andrews hockey team played the return match with the Hudson Club last night.The score was six to five in favor of Hudson.SKATING.Arthur, Ont., March 16.\u2014A five mile match skating race, purse forty dollars, skatcd here last night between Green of Smith\u2019s Falls, and J.Davidson, Toronto, was won by the former by one lap.Time, 17 minutes.CURLING.The snows are going and the green banners of spring are at hard.Besides other signs of this, there is a challenge for today in the Caledonian Club by four Irishmen to any four curlers.This challenge has been accepted by four Canadians, the winners being challenged by four full- blooded Scotchmen.There will be other very interesting events in this clyb on Thursday, and especially on Friday.At the Thistle, in the vice-president's prize matches for junior curlers, the twen- ty-six competitors have now been reduced to two, Mr.C.B.Morris and Mr.J.H.Mitchell, The match between these gentlemen, which is the final, will be played to- right at eight o'clock.On Montreal rinks the club matches will likely be all finished this week.At St.Lawrence Club the final competitions in the president and vice-president's matches, will be played this evening and to-morrow.In the Dodd's challenge cup matches the winners of Monday played last night against the \u2018big four.\u2019 skipped by T.D.McLeish.Rink and scores were: Mr.Dettmer's Rink.Big Four.D.Patterson N.T.Sheridan H.Cornell.J.Coctrane H.Drysdale * J.Johnston O.W.G.Dettmers, sk.T.D.MceLeish, sk.16 14 Mr.Dettmer\u2019s team won again.CURLING AT KINGSTON.Kingston, Ont., March 17.\u2014Mr, M.S.Sutherland has defeated Lieut.-Colonel Drury at curling and wcn the Stewart cup, given for competition among the members of the curling club.The score was: Sutherland, 13; Drury, 9.LA\u2018 ROSSE.The Montreal Lacrosse Club will hold a special meeting, within the next week, in order to discuss business for the coming year.The annual meeting of the club will take place early in April, and the present officers wish to meet the players and active members of the club and have their opinions as to the advisability of remaining in the league.FOOTBALL.The annual meeting of the Montreal Football Club will be held in the M.A.A.A.Club House on Friday evening, 26th instant, when the officers forthe ensuing year will be elected.ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.Kingston, Ont., March 17.\u2014The Kingston Association Football Club has organized for the season.The following officers were elected:\u2014Hon.presidents, Mr.E.J.B.Pense and Dr.C.K.Clarke; presidents, Mr.C.L.Bass; first vice-president, Mr.E.O.Sliter, B.A.; second vice-president, Mr.W.Cochrane; third vice-president, Mr.J.J.Hunter; secretary-treasurer, Mr.H.C.Martin: captain, Mr.D.B.Murray; mana- er, Mr.W.R.Kerr; executive committee: Messrs.Georga Kennedy, R.Allen and J.Edmoi d&on.THE WHEEL.WANDERERS\u2019 BICYCLE CLUB., It is the intention of the road officers of the Wanderers\u2019 Bicycle Club to make the coming season the banrer year both on the road and the track.It is hoped the members will aid by turning out in large numbers on all club runs.Encourage your friends who may have a desire to win racing honors to come, out and train.The trainer has not been definitely decided upon, but it is probable Corkey will be out again with enough able-bodied assistants to take good care of all the racing men.The club runs will be a very enjoyable feature of the season\u2019s attractions and it is hoped to see a larger attendance than ever before on the trips through the country.This is what the secretary says: \u2018Do not idle away your Saturday afternoons riding by yourself, but come with us into the country, where air comes in bracing chunks, untainted with the smoke of the city, and enjoy a meal with an apretite stch as you never have at home.\u2019 A jolly good time with a jolly lot of fellows.We firmly believe that the club membership will be increased by two hundred during the cycling season.We cannot hope to reach the milllon mark, nor do we want that many.The members should not be satisfied and lie down on their oars.Now is the time for them to get out and hustle.Blanks can be had at the clubrooms, or from any member of the committee.There are many splendid fellows not yet in the club who would make first-class members of it.Invite them in.We look fôr a most prosparous season.Join the club and help along the good cause of the C.W.A.The usual committee meeting will be held on Friday evening at the club rooms, where a large attendance is desired.A.Wallace has returned from Cornwall, and, on account of bad health, has been forced to retire from the secretaryship of the club.The following new bicycle literature has been added: \u2018The Fens,\u2019 the official organ of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club of Boston.and the \u2018Pedal.\u2019 je are also in receipt of some pointers from Chatham.Members can have same on application.RRA THE GLEANERS\u2019 UNION.LECTURE ON THE WOMEN OF JAPAN BY MISS BOTTERELL, B.A.The fifth lecture of the course arranged by the Montreal branch of the Gleaners' Union will be given, ix the Synod Hall or Friday,\u2019 March 19, at eight o'clock punctually.The lecturer is Miss Jeannie Botterell, B.A., and her subject will be \u201cThe Women of Japan.\u201d The lecture will be illustrated by a series of very fine stereopticon views brought from Japan by Mr.Ames, who is kindly lending them for this lecture.They glve a most vivid idea of domestic and industrial life in that comntry, and also of the coloring of its beautiful landscape, Canadian churchmen have a special interest in the missionary work now being carried cn there with such marked success, for at the station of the Society for the Pro- ragation of the Gospel at Nagano there is a band of eight Canadian missionaries under the Rev.J.G.Waller; and at the station of the Church Missionary Society at Nagoya there is another band of eight Canadian missionaries under the Rev.J.Cooper Robinson.The Montreal Diocesan Woman's Auxiliary has also pledged itself to the support of a lady medical missionary at Kobe, The chalrman on Friday will be the Rev.E.Bushell, rector of St.Matthias Church.It will be re- memtered that his parish, through its branch of the Montreal Diocesan Woman's Auxiliary, pledged itself to give five hundred dollafs yearly to the work of the Church Missionary Society in Uganda, thus \u2018appropriating\u2019 the missionary who hopes to go out from Montreal to Uganda in the course of this year.meme GOOD AND VALID.Judge Doherty rendered judgment yesterday in the case of Lepage vs.Alexander.This was a claim for $137.84, price of a quantity of cheese sold by plaintiff to defendant.The plea to the action was that the money had been duly forwarded to plaintiff at Joliette by the Dominion Express Company, but that he had neglected to draw the amount though furnished with the necessary documents, and that from the moment the money was delivered to the Express Company it was at plaintiff's risk.The Court maintained the plea and dismissed the action.ADVERTISEMENTS.DON\u2019T BORROW TROUBLE OR ANYTHING ELSE.OWN WHAT YOU NEED TO KEEP HOUSE WITH.YOU CAN NO MATTER IF YOU HAVEN'T ALL THE READY MONEY.OUR Perfect Credit System.FINDS THE WAY FOR YOU.A LITTLE DOWN, AND A LITTLE ONCE A WEEK, OR ONCE A MONTH, ACCORDING TO PROMISE, WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN .Carpets, Oileloth.Crockery, etc, OUR STOCK IS VERY LARGE, AND HAS BEEN SELECTED FROM THE LEADING MAKERS.WE DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE BEAUTIFUL GOODS.THEY ARE MARKED DOWN TO PRICES TO SUIT THE THINNEST POCKETBOOK.NC NEED TO TELL YOU WHO DOES THE LEADING HOME - FURNISHING BUSINESS IN MONTREAL.YOU KNOW The American Wringer Co., Successor to METROPOLITAN Mra.Co, 1678 and 1680 Notre Dame St.T, A EMMANS, Manager.Furniture, Draperies, Ranges.(1st Honors Pupil of Dr.Bucklin, A.M., M.D.) BPECTACLES and EYE-GLASSES fitted by the most approved and scientific methods.Sight theroughly and accurotely tested.Oculists\u2019 prescriptions executed exact.PERSONAL ATTENTION given to the fit ting of frames, (CHARGES MODERATE.TELEPHONE 5042.HENRY GRANT & SON, Opticians, Beaver Hall, near Dorchester st, Pak ETCHINGS, 6c per square inch.Minimum for any single Etching, 50c; drawing extra, if required.Special rates for large quantities.\u2018WITNESS PRINTING HOUSE, Corner Craig and DBleury streets.Must at last be resorted to for __ADVERTISEMENTS.ECZEMA Most Torturing, Disfiguring, Humillating Of itching, burning, bleeding, scaly skin and scalp humors is instantly relieved by a warm bath with Curicura Soap, a single application of CUTICURA (oint- Auction Sales, James Stewart & Co.A UCTION SALE OF RESIDENCE, No.10 BISHOP STREET.Furniture, Carpets, Knabe Baby Grand Plano, 011 Paintings, Water Colors, Etchings and Engravings, On THURSDAY, March 23.The cut stone house, No.10 Bishop st, ment), the great skin cure, and a full dose with two-story extension, 11 rooms and Lath of CUTICURA RESOLVENT, greatest of blood purifiers and humor cures.) room.This well arrenged residence, built for the owner by John Pierce Hill (architect of the Morgan Block), is in perfect order, cen- The contents consist in part of Drawing Room, Library (all books will be retained;, .trally located, and is in many respects a u Cura very desirable property.Dining Room, Kitchen and Bedroom Furpi- REMEDIES speedily, permanently, and economically cure, when all else fails, Portex DRUG AND CHEM.CORP.Sole Props.Boston.sr \u2018\u2018 How to Cure Every Skin and Blood Humor,\u201d free.PIMPLY FACES Fri fodnhessnsd 7 Whatever is used For Rheumatism \u2014 THE \u2014 CALEDONIA WATERS a Cure.Sold by best dealers everywhere., .16 THE MEDICAL.HALL been a specialty of the Medical Hall since A.D.1833.Over 60 years reputation for PRESCRIPTIONS! Colonial House, Phillips Square.The Dispensing of Prescriptions has Accuracy, Quality of Material, Neatness and Promptness.Our prices are as moderate as quality will allow KENNETH CAMPBELL & Co.17 [deal Bath Luxuriously furnished.Scrupulously clean.Marked civility and attention, and every modern appliance, Turkish Bath Hotel, 140 to 144 ST.MONIQUE STREET, \u201c ) 17 Has Been, is now, ana Always will be The Cook\u2019s Friend Such is the verdict of all those who, in their pastry, make use of the old reliable, The COOK\u2019S FRIEND Baking Powder.ARRIAGE LICENSES, ISSUED, HONEY TO LEND, \u2014BY JOHN M.M.DUFF, ACCOUNTANT AND COMMISSIONER, 107 St, James st.and 315 Prince Arthur st MONEY TO LEND At Low Rate of Interest and on favorable | terms, on first-class property.SUN LITE ASSURANQE O0.ef Canada BRITISH FIGHTERS Are the cleanest on record, because each soldier carries soap in his kit, and if there is war in the East, STRACHAN\u2019S GILT EDGE is sure to be in it, because its concentrated excellence lies in smaller bulk, and it will wash he soldier or his clothing in The army and volunteers, like hard or soft water.the navy and everyone else, prefers STRACHAN'\u2019S GILT EDGE ?SOAP.wom : a ture, Carpets, Etc.KNABE BABY GRAND PIANO.In Fine Condition.A Catalogue \u2018s being prepared of the Paintings, etc., which will be ready for distribution on Saturday, 20th instant.This fine collection (all selected personally by the owner), includes several of rare merit, among them examples, in Oil and Water Color Paintings, by Ayling, Bahieu, Bell-Smith, Barnsley, Burgess, Berncastle, Ccurtin, Champion, Crebbin, De L\u2019Aubin- ere, Edson, Ellis, Ede, Frantz, Ghent,Gray, Hayes, Kustohn, Low, Lafrican, Lutcher, Martin, Macintosh, McNab, Modave, Nic- man, Pinhey, Picott.Paradez, Rouse, Reid, Robert, Riekatson, Sandham, and Wilson.ETCHINGS By Ball.Barclay, De Gravesund, De Lang, Monks, Nugley, Parish, Rodaux, Shirlaw, Watson and Waltner.ENGRAVINGS By Beckwith, Lumbstock, Pratt, Stackpole and Tomkins.In directing attention to this important gale.we beg ta state that it is seldom a 1esider ce and ccntents so characteristio of excellence is offered by Fublic Auction, and as the owner, WILLIAM TEES, Esq.has arranged to vacate the premises immediately after the sale to occupy the Homestead on Drummond street, we are instructed to state that the residence and contents will be sold without limit or reserve Sale of Residence Thursday, 25th inst., .at 10.50 a.m.Furniture.eto.œ at 11,00 a.m.Paintings .at 7.30 p.m.On view every day and evening.JAS.STEWART & CO,, Auetionecrs.Fraser Brothers.STATE LATE DUNCAN J.MACDONALD, Sale Stock of Grocerles, Waggons, Sleighs, Hardware, Glass, etc.The Subscribers will sell by auction by order of the Executors of the Estate on the premises, CORNER WELLINGTON and PRINCE STREETS, ON THURSDAY, 18th MARCH, 1897, the stock of Groceries, Hardware, etc, three hogsheads fine old Vinegar, 500 bottles Cider, Pickles, Sauces, Sugar, Tea, Coal Oil, 250 tins Mixed Paint, Dry do.about 60 boxes.Window Glass, 20 Kegs Nails, lot of Shelf Hardware, Screws.Butt.inges, Rules, etc, Paint and other Brushes, Rope and Twine, Glassware and \u2018Crockery, barrels Apples and Potatoes, Cider Press, lot of Scrap Iron, very large quantity \u2018of Cider Bottles, several tons of Coal, lot Lumber, Ladders, Gladstone Waggon, by \u2018\u2018Lari- viere,\u201d good, strong Express Waggon, sev- efal other articles and Hardware, etc, etc.No.Reserve.SALE AT TEN O'CLOCK.FRASER BROS., Auctioneers.Marcotte Bros Important Sale \u2014 OF \u2014 Real Estate.The subscribers will offer to Public competition on THURSDAY, the 18th March, the block of land bounded as follows: \u2014 In front by McGill street, on one side by William street, on the other side by College street, containing a superficial area of about 56,330 square feet, more or less, subject to such modification as may be found necessary to rectify any slight firregulari- ties (should such be found to exist) in the Hnes of these streets.The property comprises the cadastral numbers 1753, 1754, 1755 of St.Ann's Ward, with all the buildings thereon erected, and will be offered en loc at the UPSET PRICE OF $100.000.Terms\u2014$5,000 cash and balance within 2 months.Sale at our Rooms, 68 St.James street, on THURSDAY, the 18th Mareh, 1897, AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK A.M.MARCOTTE BROS., Auctioneers.10 M.Hicks & Co.SPRING, 1897.AUCTION SALES OF HOUSE HOLD FURNITURE AT PRIVATE RESIDENCES, The subscrivers will give, as usual, their personal attention, assisted by an experienced staff to this important brauch of their spring business.With careful advertising, judicious management, and our many years of experience in this line we have no hesitation in guaranteeing the best results.We have to request early intimation from those who intend to favor us with the conducting of their sale, so as to secure choice of date.Our lists for March and April are now Guen, and already some important sales are booked.We also give attention to the sales of private stables.coach houses, etc.Valuations made, charges moderate and prompt returns can be relied on.M.HICKS & C0.Auctioncers, 1821 and 1823 Notre Dame street.* | (LD NEWSPAPERS Suitable for wrapping purposes, fop sale at the \u2018Witness\u2019 Office, in 10-1b.packages at $1 per 100 lbs.sa 2] LA arn rdc er RE ERR «77 levier ST.PATRICK'S DAY.One of The Finest Processions on Record.GOLDEN JUBILEE SERVICE AT ST.PATRICK'S CHURCH.Fine weather and a genial temperature greeted St.Patrick's dav in Montreal this This festival had a.vear of grace 1897.+ mote than usual importance attached to! it by reason of it being in addition to the feast-day of Erin's patron saint also the golden jubilee of the grand old church on the hill, for it was at St.Pat- Church just fifty years ago that \u2018Ah,\u2019 re- 1:0k\u2019s .the Hist mass was celebrated.marked the old woman whose nativnality was who was at the church this morning, \u2018I came out here unmistakable, myself in 1847, but not in time for the: first mass, though I do not think I have ever nussed one since.It was then that the ship fever carried oft poor Father Richards and many more.He wus a good man, vus Father Richards?The friendiy societies were carly astir ard the members, decorated in orthodox.style with the verdant shamrock, weie to be seen making their way toward tue rendezvous on Alexander street and\u2019 the vicinity, the bands stirring the air with \u2018St.Patrick's Day in the Morn- mg,\u201d \u2018Rory O'Meceore.\u201d the inevitable \u201cWearing of the Green,\u201d and other Hibernian melodies.st.Patrick's Charch early commenced to fill, and by the tune the different societies arrived there was not over-much room in the bodv and the galleries où the church for those who wished to attend the service.Every pew was filled with its utmost quota of occupants, and those who were unable to obtain seats filled up the side aisles, the space near the door, and even the steps reading to the gallery.Care had been taken that the service should be in every way worthy of the occasion.Grand Mass was conducted by Bishop O'Connor of Peterboro\u2019, Ont., the sermon being preached by the Rev.Father Lynch of Utica, N.Y.The musical arrangements, which were under the care of Prof.J.A.Fowler, comprised a new mass in B flat, composed by the Professor himself, which was rendered with splendid effect by a full orchestra and organ accompaniment, with a chorus of seventy selected well-trained voices.The soloists included Messrs.J.J.Rowan, ¥.Cahill and D.McAn- drew, ®ll first tenors; Messrs, I.Kennedy and O.Brennan, second tenors : Messrs.G.A.Carpenter, T.Wright and M.Corcoran, baritones, and Messrs, WV.J.Crowe, R.Cherry, .J.Murray and C.H.Smith, bass, the last-named gen- tlemman possessing a voice of wonderful strength and wapacity.Mr.R.Gruen- wald led the\\orèhestra and Mr.(i.A.Carpenter conducted the choir.The Rev.lather Lynch preached an clcquent sermon from Leviticus xxv., 19), \u2018And ye shall sanctify the fiftieth vear änd shall proclaim remission throughout the land to all inhabitaats thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you.\" The world, said the preacher, was a vast school in which men Were the pupils, rature the teacher, and where there were no vacu- tions.The human mind was absolutely free on this earth to learn its lessons.Man's mind, with its prerogative ol working on tne earth, where he was king, had wrought wonders, but in the other region of truth, treating of the supernatural world, Divige light was needed to endighten his mind.Reference was then made to the fact of the day being a twin-celebration of St.Patrick and of the golden jubilee of the church named after lim.The Lkalf century which hud passed with its struggles and successes end with its Joys and its sorrows, must present itself to the recollection of those who had lived through it.Not being familiar with the history of the parish he was hardiv fit to express their thoughts, but there was the name he knew of that was associated with them, ore known throughout the continent of America, and that was Father Dowd, whose good seed had not fallen on barren ground, but which had sprung up and multiplied.They were, too, under debt to.God for the pious, faithiul and energetic pastor who now presided over the church.\u2018Shout, then,\u201d said Father Lynch, \u2018the glad joy of jubilee.In making the church so beautiful in its de- corativn as they were now doing they must remember it was only right to give hick to God a little of what he had given to them.Father Lynch then referred to the great improvements that had been made of late in the interior of the church, expressing his pleasure at the thought that Father Dow's iifeiong wish had been realized, in the obtaining for the church a relic of St.Patrick.There were three things in the life or St.Patrick that especially struck one, name- iv, his remarkable vocation, his fidelity in accomplishing the work that God had given him to do, and tle wonderful results of his apostolate.The preacher then proceeded to review in detail St.Patrick\u2019s work of the conversion of the Irish people, and to ro mark upon the wonderful way in which a generous, and yet a haughty and warlike nation, were converted to the Christian faith without the loss of cne drop of blood.How St.Patrick steadfastly held to his ideal, notwithstanding the fact of discouragement on every side, even including the voice of God himself, as it were, speaking through his (St.Patrick\u2019s) ecclesiastical superiors.How TRARY cpio a cat mo er eT vial REO A he clung to the notion of converting these people even when cld age crept upon him, for he never doubted God, as | Abraham and Joseph never doubted | Him.Yor twenty years St.Patrick la- | bored diligently, living at times with \u2018kings and at times in hovels, travelling i trom one end of the island to the other, tin all weathers, baptizing, preaching, con vertiny and ordaining priests and conse { crating bishops without cessation.Dur {ing the time of his active labors he founded.no fewer than seven hundred (churches, consecrated three hundred bishops and ordained upwards of a thousand priests, keeping company with lepers, .whose sures he was wont to wash, and wearing haircloth garments.Was at not wonderful that so much should have heen accomplished in su little lime ?Where, in the history of the Church, can & parailel to the case be found ¥ Other \u201cnattous had passed through several stages of development, but lreland passed straizht from barbarism into Chris tianity and commenced, almost at once, to send forth missionaries to evangelize heathen lands.The preacher then told the story of St.Patrick's flowers and the miraculous blossoming (in severest winter) of the blackthoru at a place near Tours, in Francs, a phenomenon for which up to the present, he said, science has been unable to account.le concluded his sermon with saying that a congregation of the faithful who had departed were even then looking down upon them, all faithful Catholics who had heard the word of God in that church.He looked forward to an even more eventful St.Patrick\u2019s Day in years to come when they might in thankfulness of heart to God commemorate the centenary of the celebration of the first mass in their beautiful church.At the conclusion of the service the procession re-formed on Lagauchetiere street and Beaver Hall Hill.It took some time, but at length all was ready and under the generalship of Ald.Kinsella, it got under way.The route was dense- Iv crowded all the way and nearly every one appeared with a sprig of shamrock at their buttonhole.The youths in startling jockey costume of verdant shade were much in evidence, galloping hither and thither with much excitement; peo: ple strained their necks to see whether the glorious array of uniformed knights with bands and banners was on its way to pass them.Iven waiting for a procession to pass cones to an end and it was all the more glorious when it did pass.The Ilibernian uniformed knights were cspecially admired for both their dress and martial bearing.The children from the different schools were present in great numbers and full of fun.Altogether the procession was more than equal to those of preceding years and the sight was much enjoyed by all who witnessed it.In the window of Messrs.Ro- navne's shoe store on the corner of Inspector and Notre Dame streels is a pretty souvenir model of th front of St.Patrick's Church carved in wood by Mr.J.D.Smith.THE DAY AT QUEBEC.Quebec, March 17.\u2014The St.Patrick's Dav celebration here to-day ix confined to Grand Mass, with a special musical service and sermon at St.Patrick's Church and a dramatic and musical soiree at the Academy of Music in the evening, at which Mr.D.C.Fraser, ALP, will deliver an address.ARBITRATION TREATY.Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Reports Favorably.WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SPEEDY CONSIDERATION OF THE CONVENTION.Washington, D.C., March 17.\u2014The Senate committee on foreign relations to-day ordered a favorable report on the arbitration treaty to he made to the Senate to-morrow with certain amendments.Mr.Davis, the chairman, will be instructed to advise the consideration of the convention witn all possible speed._\u2014\u2014__- THE TARIFF.THE MINISTERS TOO BUSY DRAFTING A BILL TO HEAR DEPUTATIONS.Üttawa, Mar:h 17.\u2014Notwithstanding the arnouncement of the close ot the tariff hearings numerous applications continue to be received and deputations continue to come to the Canital.The Minister of Finance referring to this to-day said the government could hardly be experted to make progress with the tarif if these hearings were to continue.\u2018For myself,\u201d said Mr.Fielding, \u20181 am sorry to be compelled to refuse to make any more appointments to receive deputations concerning the tariff.We have enaeavored by further hearings at Ottawa and throughout the country to afford ample opportunity to all interested to present their views.It is hardly probable that we can receive anything now which would not he a mere repetition of what has already been laid before us.Ti gent'emen come to Ottawa for further hearings they aust not be surprised w the ministers are unable, owing to the great pressure of business, to find time to receive them.We have to ask the public to consider that we are within a few days of the opening of parliament and that every moment of our time is engaged Yonah THE MONTREAL PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS.IN ST.ANN\u2019S DIVISION.ALD.CONNAUGHTON HAS OUTSIDE, FRIENDS WHO WANT HIM THERE.sella as Conservative candidate in St.Anu\u2019s division is not meeting with favor in the outside ranks of the party, their choice lying rather with Ald.Con- naughton.Of course it is none of their business as it lies with the delegates of the division to select a candidate.Une of the local members of the Quebec Legislature, however, spent the greater part of last evening in Grifintown and Point St, Charles interviewing the heads of the party with a view of trying to persuade them to alter their decision and take the other man.Meanwhile Ald.Connaughton refuses to sav anything leaving the matter in the hands of his friends.A LABOR CANDIDATE.A meeting of the Jabor party was held on Monday at 1517 Notre Dame street, for the purpose of nominating a labor candidate in the St.Louis Division.There was an attendance of over four hundred.The choice fell on Mr.John Hoolahan, a prominent labor agitator.Speeches were made by Mr.Lomer Gou- in, Mr.Wilfrid Mercier and others.GASPE.Quebec, March 17\u2014A Gaspé letter says: \u2018There are many mayors in that county who have refused to sign Mr.Flynn\u2019s nomination paper and who will oppose him with all their influence.The Liberals were never more confident of cerrying the county than they are this time.\u2019 Quechee, March 16.\u2014Mr.Renaud, a notary.of La Jeune Lorette, was formally selected yesterday as the Conservative cardidate for Quebec county.The Hon.Mr.Chapais leaves to-day for Kamouraska tn assist at the selection of a Conservative candidate for that county.IN BROME COUNTY.Cowansville, March 17.\u2014The committee appointed at the Brome county farmers\u2019 meeting, held at Knowlton on Feb.27, have given notice of a meeting of the electors of the county of Brome to be held in the J.C.Pettes Hall, Knowlton, on Saturday, March 20, at one o'clock.to select an independent farmers\u2019 candidate for the coming provincial elections.The rctice is signed bv Messis.E.P.Stevens, chairman ; N.P.Emerson, secretary, T.VW.Paige and J.C.Draper.POLLING IN BONAVENTURE.\"a Campbellton, N.B., March 17\u2014The polling 1s going on quietly and it is expected that a larger vote than usual will be polled.lt is generally conceded by the Conservatives that Mr.Guité, Liberal, will be elected, but they say it will be by a very smull majority, while the Liberals seem to feel confident that Mr.fruité will be elected by a larger majority than the lute member, Mr.Fau- vel, Quebec, March 17.\u2014The leading Liberal politicians here claim that Mr.Guité, the Liberal candidate, will be clected this evening by at least five hundred majority, in spite of all the denun- clations oË the clergy on Sunday last.Although Bishop Blais feigned great indignation at the mere report that he had threatened to issue a mandement against the Liberal nominee, he none the less ullowel the clergy under his jurisdiction to use their pulpits on Sunday ment might in their denunciations of Mr.Guité and the Liberal party.MONTREAL HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS.DEPUTATION VISITS OTTAWA TO INTERVIEW THE GOVERNMENT.Ottawa, March 17.\u2014An important de- futation from Montreal is here interviewing the government Lo-day on matters affecting the Montreal harbor improvements.The deputation includes Messrs.KR.Dicke.dike, ex-president of the Board of Trade; E.H.Lemay, harbor commissioner; Chevalier (i.A.Dro- lect, R.Lemieux, M.P., Ald.Prefontaine, M.P., and D.W.Campbell, representing the Beaver Line Steamship Company.\u2014 MID-DAY LENTEN SERVICES.The Rev.Canon Evans of All Saints\u2019 Church, conducted the mid-day service in the Mechanics\u2019 Institute to-day, and delivered an earnest address from the words found in Hosea x., 12: \u2018Break up your fallow ground: it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.\" There was fallow ground in all lives and hearts, perhaps something there very much like virgin forest, where the thorns and briars had it all their own way.It was only necessary to go humbly to God and seek to be taught by his holy word in the light of his spirit, to find that thera were dormant powers and latent energies that .might be brought into play for the glory of God and the good of our fellowmen, and special seasons such as Lent were for the purpose of stirring up these dormant powers, that step by step the creature might be brought ever nearer his creator.\u2018We should remember.\u2019 said Canon Evans, \u2018that we were given one motto: \u2018Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in Heaven ts perieect.\u2019 \u2014_\u2014\u2014 AC BY-LAW SET ASIDE.Judg~ Loranger has rendered judgment in a case of Mongenais vs.the Corporation of the Village of Rigaud.This was a petition to set aside a byelaw dividing the munici- the petition on the ground that the division complained of was not In the public interest.The caucus nomination of Ald.Kin\u2019 last to go even further than a mande- pality into wards, and the Court granted.EN EE 2.À pou 5 - a 8 DAILY WITNESS.CHARGED WITH FORGERY.In the Police Court this morning Charles Davian, who was arrested last evening.on the charge of forgery by Chief Massey, of St.Henri, pleaded guilty and he was remanded for sentence.It appears the pris- ouer forged the signature of Mr C.De- pocas.1853 St.James street, for a rheque of twenty-five dollars on the Jacques Cartier Bank, and his nefarious work was discovered last night by Mr.Chicoine, a shoemaker.The accused entered his store, and offered him a dollar and a half if he wculd change a twenty dollar cheque on the same bank endorsed by G.H.Labelle.The store dealer thinking there was soine- thing wrong sent for the police with the above result.\u2014\u2014__> ARBITRATORS THE REAL JUDGES.The Ccurt of Appeal rendered judgment this morning in the case of Coupal and the tsrand Trunk Railway Company.This was an expropriation case in which the commissioners granted Coupal $5,000 indemmity for a gravel hill expropriated on his farm in the parish of 3t.Michel Archange.The railway company appealed from that award and the Court below reduced thz amount to $2,500.Hence, the present appe%! of Coupal.which was unanimously maintained, the Court Lolding that the valuation made by the commissioners must be considered as a decision, of experts in a position to rightly judge of the value of the land.and their award of $5.(0C must be restored v hatever may be the irdividual opinion of the judges.QUEEN'S JUBILEE.THE MANNER OF CELEBRATION STILL UNDECIDED.The sub-committes appointed to consider the best means of commemorating Her Majesty's jubilee, met in the Mayor's parlor at the City Hall this morning.Mr.George Hague presided.and there were al- 6 present the Hon.Senator Forget, Mr.A.F.Gault, Dr, Craik, Dr.Rottot, Mr.H.Stikeman, Ald.Rainville, Ald.Ouinet, Messrs.Charles Garth, Charles Chaput, Mayor Wilson-Smith, Mr.Joseph Conant, ana Sir William Hingston.As usual, difficulty was experienced in deciding upon any particular scheme.Dr.Craik dwelt at some length upon the advisability of Montreal contributing toward tlie support of the 'Queen\u2019s nurses\u2019 scheme.Such support need not in any way interfere with any local scheme for commemorating the event.Going into details of the scheme, he explained how the nurses would be sent frcm a central point which would have control of all local branches, and how the association after it was once properly started would be self-supporting.A large number of nurses in Montreal had stated that they would be willing to nurse wherever they may be rent, Ald.Rainville was strongly in favor of a park being founded, bearing the Queen's name and which would give breathing space to the sick and poor.In order to make the memorial an acceptable one to citizens it would have to be lccal, otherwise they would not contribute towards it, Sir William Hingston was in favor of giving aid to a scheme which would make it easy for the pocr of Montreal to get the services of trained nurses.He also dwelt upon the need of better hospital accommodation for infectious diseases, aud of the necessity of such institutions being under a management in which citizens would have the utmost confidence.The Mayor, after enumerating the different schemes, spoke in favor of the erection of a viceregal residence in the city.Such a structure would be good for trdde and would be a strong connecting link with Great Britain.Vir.Stikeman was very much against the erection of a viceregal residence, the cost of its maintenance would be a constant imposition upon the ratepayers.The Queen was anxious that the event should be commemorated in a manner which would bring happiness to the afflicted and the suffering.and hence.he thought it would be a good thing if a scheme was put into force which would give the poor of Montreal the facill- tiles of getting nurses, if need be, for nothing.Such a local scheme need not interfere with Lady Aberdeen's scheme, which aimed at providing nurses for sparsely settled districts.It was decided to disruss the matter at a subsequent meeting.TRUE BILLS.FINDINGS OF THE GRAND JURY.Al the opening of Court of Queen's Dench this morning Mr.Justice Wurtele thanked Mr.M.J.F.Quinn, Q.C., for his delicate attention in placing before him handsome shamrocks as a memento of St.Patrick's Day.Edward Jones, against whom are four charges of theft, failed to appear and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest.Prospere P, Pelletier and H.J.Murphy.who were his bondsmen, each forfeited a security of five hundred dollars.Mr.Guerin made an application asking that the case of Henry Jordan, accused of theft, who was awaiting his trial in the Police Court, be placed before the Grand Jury now sitting.Mr.Archambault objected, and His IIonor said he cculd do nothing in the case until a written motion had been presanted to him, This Mr.Guerin promised to do.Jean Baptiste Clement was then placed on trial on the charge of outrage.The Court adpourned until one o'clock.At noon the grand jury returned the following true bills: \u2014 George Mooney, theft.Henri Theoret, perjury.Richard O'Brien, alias O'Bryan, editor of a weekly sheet named \u2018Town Topics,\u201d for criminal libel.He is accused of having published in his paper two articles sald to be injurious and hurtful to the feelings of a respectable young woman.O'Brien is the individual who some years ago was found guilty in the Court of Queen's Bench of criminally libelling Prince George and set at liberty under a suspended sentence.Father Murphy, for obtaining five thousand dollars under false pretences.Murphy is the proprietor of the celebrated \u2018gold cure\u2019 for drunkenness.William Broulette, theft.A \u2018no bill was returned against Robert Roberts accused of fraud.\u2014__ ILLICIT WHISKEY.LARGE STILL SEIZED.Late yesterday afternoon Denuty High Constable Bissonnette arrested Michel La- gare, 53, and his soin, Rodrigue.both farmers, residing at St, Therese, in a saloon on Notre Dame street, in the act of offerinz a lerge quantity of illicit whiskey for sale.It aj pears these men arrived from 3t.Therese yesterday mcrning with a waggon load of white whiskey, consisting of about fifty gallops in stone bottles, together with a large number cf sample bottles.They offered the whiskey for sals at $2.10.which is 2.50 cheaper than the ordinary price of white whiskey.Deputy High Constable Firsornette communicated with Revenue Officer Brabant.who was quickly on the spot.The last named officer seized the WeDpNESDAY, MARCE 17, 1897, \u2014 I EE whiskey and had it removed to his office, and the prisoners were marched to the Central Police Station.Two or three revenue officers proceeded to St.Therese for the purpose of investigaling the case.In the meantime Detective Cing Mars had a conversation with the elder Lagare, who confessed that he owned a fifty gallon il- Heit still five miles from St.Therese, but aid that his son had nothing whatever to do with the affair.The detective then telegraphed this news to the revenue officers at St.Therese with the result that an illicit whiskey still of exceedingly large dimensions was found in the vicinity nam- cd by Lagare.In adition over one hundred gallons of malt in fermentation was discovered.together with a considerable quantity of whiskey, In the Police Court this morning Lagare pleaded guilty to the offence and Judge Dugas impored a fine of fifty dollars and costs or one month in jail.Rodrigue Lagare was acquitted.LOCAL STOCKS.ANNUAL MEETING OF GAS CO.AND DECLARATION OF DIVIDEND.LOCAL MARKET DULL AND STEADY.WITNESS OFFICE.Wednesday, March 17, 1897.On the local stock exchange this morning the dulness that has been the chief characteristic of the market recently was again to the fore, the total of sales amounting to less than two hundred shares.There are plenty of buying orders on the market, but at lower figures than obtain at present.Holders, however.are not anxious to scl! and small blocks of stocks are snapped up eagerly at concessions.This as a natural consequence again stiffens the market and no further stocks are available excepting at figures to suit holders\u2019 views.In fact.gilt-edged securities are very scarce and firmly held and nothing but dearer money seems strong enough to shake them out of the hands of present holders.Gas sold up a point better to-day on the expectation that the company will declare a dividend on a ten percent basis at the annual general meeting this afternoon.The meeting took place in the New York Life building and\u2019 was largely attended.If the company pays five percent for the half year now ended the future for its stock is a bright one.The sales at the morning board were: \u2014 2 M.S.R.at 22444, 25 Gas at 193, 25 xd.at 189, 25 Can.Pac.at 521%, 50 Toronto Street at 70, 7 Postal at 97%, 5 Telephone at 160.25 Electric xd.at 1393, 16 Bank of Montreal at 2.28.The sales at the afternoon board were:\u2014 25 Gas at 194, 25 Toronto Rails at 70, 50 Postal at 98, $1,000 Cattle Bonds at 984%.Reported by Messrs.Nichols &Marler Between Banka.Buyers.Sellers.Counter.New York Funds 3-52 prem.1 prem.3-16 to } prem.8terling, 60 days.9%, 93-16 9% to 9% Sterling, demand.9 ©-16 9%, 934 to Ig Sterling Cables.954 9% 9.gto 10 Reported by Messrs Nichols & Marler, Stock Brokers, Corner Notre Dame and St.Francois Xavier streets Stocks, Sellers Buyers per 8109.per $100 Canadian Pacific.53 52 o.do.Iand Boods.eee A.Duluth 8.8.& Atlantic.reves 4 3 Do.do.pret.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026 9 7 Grand Trunk 1st Pref,.coe vee.o do.2ndPref.8 .ee - Comnmercial Cable.Cea 167 166 Montreal Telograph.170 166%, Rickelivu & Opt.Nav.Co.su 85 Muntreal St.Railway Co.225%, 225 MontrcalGasCo.ovv vee enrinnnn.194 19342 x ee reece, Cee een Bell Telephone Uo.\u2026.\u2026.00000.165 159+ Do.do ONds.,.2 annee e Co eee Royal Electric, .coovivininnnnn 140 138 Rankof Mountreal.43) 2274 Ontario Bank.000000000e0s 00000 5 82 Luna of Briush ivorth America.,., .[A La Banque du Peuple.\u2026.ee Molsons Bank.ccevevrnenns Coes 190 Rank of Toronto.ovven 235 23) La Banque Jacques Cartier.100 ERA Merchants Bank.179 172 0.do.of Halifax.175 167 Eastern Townships Bank, .ies 145 Quebec Bank, .oeeee iii.Coe.134 Lu Banque Nationaie.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.+.eee Union Bank.oini iene Coe lug Canadian Bank of Commerce.130 127 La Banque Ville Marie.veo.100 72 Hochelaga Bank.c.ivean.131 129 Intercolonial Coal.J Do.Pref.Stock.North-West Land.Canada Shipping Co Canada Paper.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.,.\u2026.Champiain and St.Lawrence Bonds.oo Montreal Cotton.124 120 Can.Coi.Cot.Mills Co.ees vere do.do.Bonds.cee Merchant's Manufacturing Co.\u2026\u2026 Dominion Cotton Mills Co.8 75 Do.do.Bonds.eee Loan & Mortgage Co.Les Toronto Street Railway.7044 70 Postal.cover iii 8 9744 Halifax Tram.ee.tig 93 NEW YORK STOCK LIST.{Furnished by J.R.Meeker), Opening and Closing Prices\u201410 a.m.and 3 p.m.Atchison.rea memar rae eae ns 1154 118; Can.Pacific.ovveevie iii oan, eee Lo Can.Southern.coveenieeronan EA Sly Chicago, Burlington & Quinecy.7144 Til Clev.C.C.&3t.Louis, .ve Com.Cable.ree cess Del.& Hudson.1.00000410 000 eee A.Del.Lack & West.ooveriveaierirronnenn.Erie.ooooveviiniian, onu e ses aan .ML Central.0.020002 ana s eee eee vere .Louis.& Nash.ooovivniiiiiin.19%; 494, Lake 8hore.cee.16944 17u United staves Leather.Vere eee Manhattan Consolidated xd 1 p.c,.tog 8543 Missouri Pacitic.00000000000e 1834 18% North Aunerican.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.s cee cn Nor.Pacific.cooivveei ven innnns, vee cen Nor.Pac.pid.oon iene 37/2 37 Ya New Jersey Central.[\u2014 9394 for.West.Sipe 10944 1104 N.Y.& NEngeeeeo oii cen Cn N.Y.Central.era 99%) XDA Omaha, Common.694 bil Pacific Mail .ooeiiiiiie aa, 26% 26% Reading, Philadelphia.248 249 Richniond Terminal.vee FU Rock Island.Chico.& Pac.654 VO72 st.Paul, Chico.& Min.pures Cees Ce St.Paul, Minn.& Man.77% Tig Texas Pacific.00240000 e Lea sa sas nes ren vee Union Pacific.\u2026.100000eccees 673 67g Wabash Com.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.PE ee eer Wabash pfd.coi ieee 14% 1514 Western Union Tel.0.0\u20260000000 86 86 Sugar RE Ne 112% 113 End.2rona0os croco 00000 cc 0 cam00 su.cee.Gas, Chicago .erie iene 7d 18% Gen.Electric.00000000 05e s ana LL 35 35 Toledo, Ann Arbor & Nor.Mich.Cees Rubber, .00000sesc sas e seen sen 16443 1644 CEREALS HIGHER \u2014 PORK ABOUT TWENTY CENTS LOWER.In Chicago this morning wheat opened about 34 of a cent higher and closed % of a cent higher at 73%c March, Tile May, and 3c July, and 3% of a cent lower at 70% Sept.Corn and oats were about %4 to 4 of a cent higher.Pork was about 20 cents icwer.G.T.R.SHARES STEADY.London, March 16.\u2014The stock exchange market was inactive to-day, though the tone at the cpening was firm.The teeling of dulress centinued throughout th dav.Amer:can railway stocks opened from unchanged to one point higher except Reading vhich was Le lower, closing from unchanged to %% higher, except IlHiois Central which closed 134 higher on the day, and Reading, which closed 15 lower, Grand Trunk shares and foreign se-urities were steady, and miring shares were quiet.Milwaukee, March 17, 116 p.m.\u2014Closing\u2014 Tse March, 7454c May.Duluth, March 17, 1.15 p.m.\u2014Closing\u2014No.1 hard.76\u20ac cash; No.1 Northern, 74c March and 74L,e May.Toledo, March 17, 1.20 p.m.\u2014 Closing \u2014 £3¢ March, 95%c May.St, Louis, Mareh 17, f5e March, &93;e May.New York, March 17.220 p.m \u2014Closinz- Wheat, S0c May.Ts5ge July.Tülye bid Sept; corn, 3Ul4c May, 31%c Julv, 33c Sept 1.20 p.m.\u2014Closing\u2014 CHICAGO MARKETS.The following table shows the range of prices in Chicago to-day and the clusing g'lotations as conipared with thore of yesterday: Yesterday's To-day's \u2018Close.Open.High.Low.Cinre Wheat\u2014 May TAPR Tl, 745 133, 744 July 7212 734 TER Lig 73 Sept.T03g 71 T1}, TR ro Corn\u2014 - May 24% 241, 243, 2414 REE July 251; 25% 20% 2575 Lee QOats\u2014 May 1674 17% 173 172 1714 July 1774 18\u20184 IN, 380, 16/4 Porz\u2014 May R.92 8.05 ss, sn ST July 9.05 9.05 Va LUS so Lar23\u2014 May 4,32 4.02 4.32 420 426 July 4.40 4.42 441 4,5 43 Short Ribs \u2014 May 4.52 4.52 4.82 4.67 477 July 4.82 4,52 485 4.70 472 FISH OILS.There are scarcely any fish oils in fir-: hands here and prices are very firm in co.- sequence.We quote cod oil at 3te for Gaspe and 37Le for Newioundland .ond liver oil by the Norwegian process at fi \u2026 and 90c to $1 by ordinary process, steam Te- fined seal oil at 47c to 45c., VERDICT MAINTAINED.Court of Appeal reudered judginent this morning in the case of the Carnacdiua Facific Railway Company and Ball.The respondent, Badl, claimed $5,000 damares on account of the death of his minor son who was killed while working in the company's service at Megantic.The young man was acting as locomotive cleaner, ni while attending to one of the locowotives vlabed over the ash pit, it suddenly moved a few feet, and he was so badly crushed tnat he died a few hours afterwards.The case came before a jury who awarded #- - Sou, and that verdict was confirmed by a judgment of Judge White.The company then took the case to the Court of Anpeal.but that tribunal unanimously dismissed the appeal, this morning.on the ground th.although they considered the amount gran.ed rather high, still they did not feel justified in disturbing the verdict of the jury.who heard the evidence.JURY'S The DELAY GRANTED.The Ccurt of Appeal this morning granted a motion presented by Mr.Bisaillos asking that the delay for furnishing sevuricr on the wipeal to the Privy Council in the cage of Tuprer and Casgrain.Le extended for two months.This wii be remembered as a contestation to establish whecher seigmiorial dues of the seip- niery of Sault St.Louis should go to the Dominion Government cr to the Quel Government, ee \u2014 JUDGMENTS AGAINST THE CITY.rendered judgment this morning in the case of Charles M:«Gil.hon vs.the city.The plaintiff claimed §2w damuges for injuries received by rall\u2018ng ©.a Jacques Cartier street side wd!lk, and the Court granted &90 Judge Mathieu also rend\u201cred judgrient in a cage of Wm.McGowan vs.the city.This wag a claim for damages oun account of the flcoding cf a cellar, and the Court grant:d plaintiff 2135 Judge Tellier A \u2014\u2014\u2014 CHATEAU DE RAMEZAY.Mr.DB.Sulte's lecture advertised for tla 1%h instant at the Chateau de Rameuay.has been indefinitely postpol ed.THE REVISION, PY CORPORATION COSTS OF WILL BE SHARED GOVERNMENT.AND The Board of Revisers interviewed Attor- ney-General Pelletier yesterday afternoon in reference to who would pay the selaries of some thirty clerks that the revisors had been compelled to employ in order to complet the work on the voters lists.Jt was agreed the corporation and the governim: ul should bear equal proportions of the cos._\u2014_ YACHTING.Cannes, March 17\u2014The 'Britannia\u2019 and the \u2018Ailsa\u2019 started to-day in a race for a prize presented by President Faure.The .ours2 was fertyv-nine miles, ind a fresh breeze was blowing at the start.The \u2018Aiisa\u2019 crossed the line fifteen seconds ahead of tha \u2018Britannis.-\u2014 WAR ON CIGARETTES.St.Thomas, Ont.March 17.\u2014Owing to an alarming increase in the growth of cigarette smoking among school children here, the Board of Education have pass ed a strong resolution urging immediate action of the police to enforce the anti cigarette ordinance.They have also empowered the teachers to summarily expel anv pupil found with cigarettes on his person.es DIED.MURPHY.\u2014On March 16, at 100 Colborne street, of pneumonia.John Murphy.voung- est son of John Murphy.and brother of P.and W.Murphy of Montreal Fire Department, aged 25 years and 2 months.Funeral from his father\u2019s residence on Friday morning at eight c'clock, to Nr.Ann's Church.aud thence to the R.C.Cemetery.Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend.17 _ ADVERTISEMENTS._ FOR SALE, BABLBY'S CARRIAGE.cost 815, six months in use, for $n: Sideboard (hardwood) $5.00: 6 Perforated Dining Chairs, rost $8.00, for $4.00; a Baby's Iron Cot and Child's Double Bed with Spring.+42 St.Antoine street.17 TO LET, NO.28 SEYMOUR AVENUE.Stone front modern house.in perfect order.» rooms.R.A.DUNTON, 110 St.James strect.17 f ee A \u2014 WeDpNyESDAY, MARCH 17, 1897.EN THE ANCIENT CAPITAL.Quebec, March 17.-Navigation below thes city 1s now practically open.In tit it has been so since Mid-Januarr.| Marte, i3eauce, says! A letter Irom Siw \u201cTot the recent stolat Wus felt with ul | sual severity on that section, where inere Tell over taree feet of snow.An- «tr cnundation «: tne Chaudiere as ! ! te rod thas spring.| [+ oir women named L Herault, re- | so.ns tewether at Lorette, ued within | a +4 oakdtes of each other there un: Mo ! * at the resulence of Mr.Dom- seat but ver, où Boulevard Langelier, | Coste et sut à bess ool two thousand dors, | te ne (y choc Brilze Company 18; divits rt > Chat 15 VTT apply to par: SR CA RUN +000 8 toy anvndments Lo tir ele pee s cratter vatendimg tor Veis tie Leu to vetamence the work cond for aix eos the dean to conr : pee an Tie Cerservat ee monagers got up a gall demonstration heie last night ing hor or Mr Chae of the \u201cAvani trarde on tos reurn tram Montreal, A ner of fem met hum at the rail wav san ad escorted hum om tre! werhot ere to the Ganson Club As nary of ther rejotcing at his delbiv- | roue irem the eruanal hibel proceed | pris ue tuted azunst Tom by Mr.A Corres AU the elub the Bono VOW force propisel his heath, and Mr.| Closes?n veptx commented upon the) fio ior though the Montreal grand | Dirt 03 composed of French and Fogo be 4 \u20ac er Miscellaneous.HEADQUARTERS FOR GOLD SPECtacles and Eye-Glasses.Best in the Dominion.Tel 5042.HENRY GRANT & SON, Opticians, Beaver Hall, near Dor- chester street.17 OCULISTS* PRESCRIPTIONS GROUND exact ; frames accurately fitted, Tel.5042.HENRY GRANT & SON, Opticians, Beaver Hall, near Dorchester street.17 HEADQUARTERS FOR OCULISTS' PREscriptions ; frames accurately fitted.Tel.5042.HENRY GRANT & SON, Opticians, Beaver Hall, near Dorchester street.17 HFADOUARTERS FOR SPECTACLES and Eye-Glusses.Best in the Dominion.-Tel, 5142, HENRY GRANT & SON.Opticians, Beaver Hall.near Dorchester street.17 OUR STORE CLOSES AT 6 P.M.SHARP.Best hours, 9 am.to 5 p.m.Tel.5042.HENRY GRANT & SON, Opticians, Beaver Hall, near Dorchester street.17 PERSONAL\u2014ALBERT LEATHER, PAINTer and Decorator, Picture Framer, &c., 501 Magdalen street.1 Among Thinking People Our Popular Priced BOYS\u2019, YOUTHS\u2019 and MEN'S ADVERTISEMENTS.For 37 MEN'S HATS and FURNISHINGS All Under the Same Heading.WILLIAM CURRIE, 1967 Notre Dame Street.wt lee REE LA ER MIRE EB pring and Summer Is considered as fine as wit and : skill can produce.DY PSS CLOTHING i of the water front.2 ge X \\ DAILY WITNESS, Entertainments Given.To Let.Situations Vacant.VOCALIST AND INSTRUMENTALIST, STEREOPTICAN LEGTURES.&c.R.McGLAUGHLIN, ELOCUTIONIST AND HUMORIST.Open for Concert Engagements.Address, 196 Berri street.Property.FARM FOR SALE IN THE VILLAGE OF St.Andrews, Que., known as the Davis Homestead, about 225 acres, in a high state of cultivation, fine house and buildings; good opening for a hotel.Apply on the premises.A FREE TRIP may be had at any time by appointment if you wish to seo the lots we are selling at POINTE , CLAIRE.This property is situated on one of the finest spots on the Island of Montreal and is known as CEDAR PARK and is only fourteen miles from the city.The railway service is excellent, the C.P.R.station being on the property and the G.T.R.a short distance away.There is also a school house, plenty of water, good drainage and every lot holder has the privilege The prices are so low and the terms so easy that any one wishing to become a householder can easily do so.Preserve the health of your wife and children by getting out into the country where there is plenty of fresh air and room to breathe it.For information apply to W.GODBEE BROWN.Real Estate Agent, 110 St.Francois Xavier st, TELEPHONE 453.it JORED.R.ALLEY, .116 St.James Street.REAL ESTATE BOUGHT AND SOLD.MONEY LOANED, HOUSES FOR SALE Bisnop street, 39,000, $10,500, $15,000.Crescent street, $7,600, $10,600, $12,000.Elm avenue, Westmount, $6,500.Oliver avenue, Westmount, $8.000.Arlington avenue, Westmount, $7,500.Also a Fine Semi-detached Residence, with 12,500 feet of land, $14,000.Semi-detached Residence, with 7,000 ft.of land, 312.000.Small Cottage, with 5,750 feet of land, $1.600,.JOHN A.TEES «& CO.Board of Trade Building.Telephone, 2685.Choice Building Lots FOR SALE- WESTMOUNT.25c to 30c a fout.Choice Lots in exchange fur Buildings.JOHN A.TEES & CO.FOR SALE OR TO LET.That Beautiful Country, Residence known as BELMONT, 26 a-res of land at- \u2018 SN Ur Lal F 4 tacned, with large MA an ( roomy out- ek = houses, also self- ~ CC contained house for caretaker, all finished in first-class style, and with all modern improvements and at once possessing all the conveniences of a Town and Country Residence, being delightfully situated between the Towns of Cowans- ville and Sweetsburgh.For information apply to JOHN MORRIS, Opposite Post Ofire, 126 St.James St.To Let.RESTO LET TO LET\u2014STORE NO.149 ST.LAWRENCE STREET\u2014A splendid stand for a retail merchant.This Store will be painted and tinted to suit tenant.Possession about the 10th of March.TO LET\u2014STORE NO.75 BLEURY ST.\u2014 In perfect order.Wil te divided to suit tenants if necessary.Apply to Darling Bros.112 Queen St, Telephone 2114 and 3338, 17 TO LET.TO LET\u2014168 Mansfield street, large house with stables, presentiy vccupied by John Torrance, Esq.; rent, $600 and taxes.Noe.81, R83, Fert street, flve bedrooms, every convenience; extension kitchen; rent, $250 and taxes.Lower Tenement, 360 St.Antoine street, 7 rooms, hot water; rent, $12.00 per month.Upper Tenement, 356% St.Antoine street, 8 large rooms, hot water; rent, $17.00 per month.Apply C.L.MALTBY, 309 St.James st.23 (OFFICES TO LET.In the Ottawa Building, 246 St.James st.From $7.00 per month upwards.Lighted and heated.STEPHENS & WARNECKE, 18 St.Alexis Street, TO LET, A FURNISHED HOUSE, STONE Front, three story, eleven rooms; gaod yard.Apply 125 Mackay street.} TO LET, STORES 796 AND 798 Dorthester street, Houses 21, 25 and 27 Brunswick street.Apply at 1780 Notre Dame street.17 TO LET, LOWER TENEMENT, 50 Prince Arthur street, containing 6 rooms, in good order ; rent low to good tenant.Apply CHARLES T.BASTIAN, 457 St.Lawrence street.17 TO LET, UPPER TENEMENT, 52 PRINCE Arthur street, containing 8 large rooms, bath and w.c., in good order; rent low to good tenant.Apply CHARLES T.BAS- TIAN, 457 St.Lawrence street.17 STORE TO LET\u2014FIRST STORE NORTHwest of corner\u2014Store situated corner St, Antoine and Mountain streets, Corner Store is already rentcd.For fuil particulars apply JAMES A.OGILVY & SONS, St.Catherine and Mountain streets.24 THE LOWER TENEMENT, 32 Gullbault street, 6 rooms, hot water heating, and all modern improvements, MILLER & BREMNER, 35 Bleury street.16 TO LET, 27 BALMORAL STREET, SEVEN rooms, pantry, beth room.hot and cold water.Ww.c.Apply on premises or 59 Bieury street.15 TO LET, 25 AND 27 ARGYLE AVENUE, 2 self-contained houses, new repaired, eleven rooms each, b.and w.c.; one can be had on the first April; rent, $22.00.Apply 31 St.Philip street.15 TO LET, A COMFORTABLE LOWER Tenement or Flat, contalning 6 nice rooms, bath and w.c.; rent moderate; no taxes.Apply 124 Durocher street.15 TO LET, RENT VERY LOW, TWO NICE Upper tenements, 7 rooms, b.and w.c.121 and 109 Fulford street; cars pass door.Apply at 5 Brunswick street.15 TO LET, No.2688 ST.CATHERINE ST.Brick Cottage, yard and stable.W.& G.A.COWAN, 59 Temple Building.LITTLE MÉTIS, MERLINWOOD QITTAGE To Let, furnished, best view and best well in Metis.For particulars, address, JAMES WALLACE, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.TO LET, 53 CITY HALL AVENUE, 12 rooms ; also 21 and 23 Montcalm street, 9 rooms each, airy situation, near river front, very comfortable and in good order; rents very moderate, to good tenants only.Apply to H.H.AUSTIN, Agent Estate John Tiffin, 318 St.Paul street.12 TO LET, 8 UNION AVENUE, A CONvenient and pleasant residence with large vright rooms.To a satisfactory tenant, terms moderate.Apply to H.H.AUSTIN, Bstate Joseph Tiffin, 318 St.Paul street.12 TO LET, 500 ST.URBAIN STREET, handsome stone front house, hot water heating; rent moderate.R.K.THOMAS.174 St.James street.FLATS TO LET\u2014Situated coruer St.Au- toine and Mountain, two Beautiful Flats, latest improvements, hot water Daisy furnace, containing 4 bedrooms, kitchen, din- ing-room, parlor, bath-room, etc.; lower flat contains one additional bedroom.Apply to JAMES A.OGILVY & SONS, St.Catherine and Mountain streets.24 STORE TO LET, 660 CRAIG STREET, Flat and Cement Floored Basement, with Goods entrance on Fortification lane.Apply to H.H.AUSTIN, Agent Estate John Tiffin, 318 St.Paul street.12 OFFICES TO LET, YOUNG MEN'S Christian Association Building, Dominion Sq., on third and fourth floors.Elevator at- \u2018endance.Suitable for Financial or Business Corporation, or Separate Offices for Doctors, Dentists or Professional Men.Changes made in arrangements to suit tenants.Also, one Artist Studio.Apply, D.A.BUDGE, Secretary.TO LET, AT ST.LAMBERT, DESIRABLE Brick House, Victoria avenue, 9 rooms and Summer Kitchen, hard and soft water, good drainage, garden and {iuit trees.Also, nice Detached Cottage, Argyle ave, 7 rooms and suminer kitchen, hard and soft water, shade trues, good drainage.Rents moderate ; both houses not far from statioh and with good view of river.Apply to W.H.ROSEVEAR, Argyle ave., St.Lambert, or 130 St.Etienue street, city.10 .WANTED, AN ee _\u2014\u2014 SEE WANTED, A YOUNG GIRL.ABOUT 17, to learn general housework; must have somo knowledge of cooking and be well recommended; small family.Apply by letter L.40, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.17 WANTED, GENERAL SERVANT.Apply to 94 Tupper street.City reference required.17 WANTED, A COMPETENT GENERAL Servant; no washing, references required.- 98 Columbia avenue, first avenue past Greene, off Dorchester street.17 WANTED, THOROUGHLY CAPABLE GENeral Servant; no washing or ironing.Apply before 10.80 or after 5 p.m.8+ Crescent street.LT WANTED, A GENERAL SERVANT FOR tamily of two: good references.Apply between 6 and 7 p.m., at 53 Park ave.17 WANTED, A CHOIR LEADER AND ORganist (Male) for Chalmers (Presbyterian) Church, Quebec.Apply, stating terms and giving refercnves to Mr.ROBERT BRODIE, No.ÿ Ursule street, Quebec.17 ENGLISH-SPEAKING Young Man, to teach Writing and Aritn- metic, in a Commercial School.Apply in own handwriting.Address G.W.100, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.17 WANTED, GENERAL SERVANT FOR family of three where nurse is kept; good wages given for capable woman.Apply 459 Notre Dame street, Maisonneuve.17 WANTED.IMMEDIATELY, A FIRST- class Gilder.Apply W.H.HOPE, 2255 St.Catherine street.15 ANTED, STEWARD AND ACCOUNTANT at tne Protestant Hospital for the insane at Verdun.Applications to f!l this position will be received until the 17th inst., addressed to the undersigned.I.is the desire of the Board that the appointee should be unmarried and live on the premises.Address ROBERT REID, Hon.Secy,, 2146 St.Catherine street.10 Employment Wanted.WANTED, BY A RESPECTABLE YOUNG rerson a position in an office or any similar work.Address T.R.16, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.17 WANTED, BY A RESPECTABLE PERSON Cooking or Housekeeping by the day or week.Address HOUSEKEEPER 60, \u2018Wit ness\u2019 Office.: 17 WANTED, BY EXPERIENCED ENGLISH man, marriad, situation .as Gardener or Farmer.ROSSITER, Bergerville, Que.18 WANTED, BY A RESPECTABLE WOMAN with a family to support, work of any kind by the day.Apply 86 Plymouth Grove, up stairs.15 WANTED, BY A RESPECTABLE WOMAN, general housework, by the week or month, Apply 11 Bernard street.15 MRS.M.KIRK, 303 St.Antoine street, having opened a Registry Office for Servants at the above address where Lad!es requiring help, also Servants wanting situations, may be suited.She hopes by strict attention to business and by supplying competent Servants on short notice to merit a share of pubiic patronage.12 WANTED \u2014 YOUNG MAN WITH TEN years experience in insurance business, would like to hear of a vacancy.Can furnish the very best references.Address E.G.24, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.11 Bargains.FOR SALE, REMNANTS BUTCHER LINen, Table Linen, Roller Linen, Sateens, 8¢; Tweeds, Lace, Curtiins, Quilts, Ladies\u2019 and Gent's Natural Wool Undervests.Bargains.ROWELL'S GENERAL BAZAAR BANKRUPT STOCK 1597 Uotre Dame street, between St.Lambert Hill and Court House.17 FOR SALE, LARGE LOAD OF KINDLING Wood, $2.00.G.& J.ESPLIN, 126 Duke sireet.FOR SALE, A THOROUGHBRED R.C.St.Bernard Dog; full pedigree; one of the finest dogs in Canada; price.$156.Address W.S.\u2018Witness\u2019 Office.TO LET, LOWER TENEMENT, 389 CITY Hall avenue, 6 rooms, cement basement, w.c.; rent $10.00.Address 1037 St.Lawrence street.9 \u2014 TO LET, A STONE COTTAGE, NO.65 Coursol street, containing about eight roolus, with separate yard and shed, con- veuient to the St.Antoine and St.James street cars, bath room and closet; rent low.Apply to R.K.THOMAS, Estate Agent, corner District Savings Bank, St, James street.25 TO LET, 70 AND 72 CITY COUNCILLORS street, Brick Cottages, bay window, heated with furnace and all modern convenience.-Apply to THOS.GILDAY, 309 St.James street.16 TO LET, CERTAIN PREMISES MN THE \u2018Witness\u2019 building, consisting of a store on the street level, and two well lighted well finished, heated flats, immediately above raid store.These premises would be very suitable for a wholesale establishment requiring a shop or office on the ground floor, or would be let separately.Only first class tenants need apply.Fuli particulars or application to Mr.WALLACE, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office.TO LET, WESTMOUNT, TWO NEW Houses, Lansdowne avenue, above Sherbrooke street, containing 9 rooms ; all modern improvements.Apply to J.H.HUTCHISON, 4404 St.Catherine street.11 ROOMS TO LET.In the Ottawa Building, suitable for bed- ! rooms for single gentlemen from $7.00 per month upward.Lighted and heated.STEPHENS & WARNECKE, 18 St.Alexis Stieet.ID LAT TO LET.In the Old Hamilton Building, corner of St.James street and Victoria square; heat and electric elevator service included.Rent low.STEPHENS \u20ac WARNECKE 18 St.Alexis Street.Money to Loan.SEE eee KONEY TO LEND.We have on hand ihe following among other amounts for investments - $1,000, $2.600, $2.500.B3,600, $5.000, $6,000, $10,000 on first mortgage, first class property.CUSHING, DUNTON & BARRON, 110 St.James Street, % TO LET, AT ST.LAMBERT, TWO FIVE- roomed Cottages, with good garden, on Lorne avenue and Elm \u2018street, facing square, nice shade trees; warm and comfortable; rent, $8.00, four minutes\u2019 walk from depot: can be occupled on March 6th.Apply E.MORRISON, \u2018Witness\u2019 Office, or GEO.BEATTY, St.Lambert.25 STABLE TO LET ON MOUNTAIN ST.situated in Tear of property, corner St.Antoine and Mountain streets.Apply JAMES A.OGILVY & SONS, St.Catherine and Mountain streets.24 TO RENT OR SELL ON EASY MONTHLY payments another nice pew cottage on Gardenville ave.Longueuil.West End, built for winter, well situated: will be ready in May.lot contains S.000 feet.Apply to A.HARDIE, Gardenville ave.P.O.Box 45.TO LETA STONE FRONT COTTAGE, No.9 Essex avenue.7 rooms, bath and w.c.; Daisy furnace, etc.Applyto DAVID MILLER, + 35 Bleurry street.FOR SALE, ROCKLEDGE.2191; sire, Sndy- mion, 636; imported dain, Jess of Athel- san, 370; color, bay; four years old; an opportunity for agricultural societies or others to obtain a valuable stock horse, Clyde, at a reasonable price.Apply to J.W.BROWN, Huntingdon, Que.FOR SALE, A FEW BRONZE TURKEY Cocks, two to four dollars, according to age.Apply J.W ENTWORTH HILL, St.Lambert, Montreal.11 FOR SALE, FOR THE MILLION, KINDling, $2; Cut Maple, $2.50; Tamarac Blocks, $1.75; Hardwood Blocks, $1.56 ; cui any length ; delivered anywhere in the city.J.C.McDIARMID, Richmond square.Bell Telephone 8353.25 FOR SALE, HOME-MADE PRESERVES, Pickles, Horse Radish, Black Currant and Raspberry Vineger; alsg their celebrated Marmalade, two pounds for (wenty-five cents, at LUKE\u2019S, 2131 St.Catherine street.OR BALE, Bechstein Upright Piano.price $175, payable 510 deposit and $5 per month until paid.or $150 all cash, 7 octaves, patent iron plate, tricord overstrung bass, repeating action, souading board and pin block, without a flaw: warranted for five years.Apply at C.W.LINDSAY'S WARFROOMS.2366 St.Catherine street, near Peel street.17 JOR SALE, a Beautiful Heintz- man & Co.Square Piano.$175, payable $10 deposit and $5 per month, or $13¢ all cash, 715 octaves, carved legs and all the modern improvements, fully warranted for five years.Apply at C.W.LINDSAY'S WAREROOMS.2266 St.Catherine street.near Peel street.17 Wantea.v SMALL CAPITAL WANTED FOR Import and export business: good security, ang sure profits.Address O.M.R., \"Witness\u2019 Office.WANTED TO PURCHASE.CHILD'S Irna Cot, in good order; state price.Address, H.J.C.\u2018Witness\u2019 Office.WANTED, TO PURCHASE.CAST-OFH Clothing, Furs, Carpets, Musical Instruments, Fire Arms, Blcycles.Good prices paid on account of having great demand.Address M.FRANK, 569 Craig street.23 Lost, Strayed and Found.LOST, ON MONDAY.BETWEEN UNIVERsity and Shuter slreets.a pair of gold cve-glasses with chain attached.Reward at 78 Shuter street 17 ord ; i i « i 1: i 1 Ty \"RE SOS ST Ra i SN Peu À nn em eam rate Sin aay IS Sr em re qe Ea me em A OR 0 aan NS EN EIR POET apt MEAT ADVERTISEMENTS.Spr Experience teaches the importance of special care of the health.And fixed among the important prineiples of hygiene and health is the acknowledged necessity oi a good Spring Medicine, Just as firmly established by the experiences of millions of people, is the positive faut that Hood's Savsaparilla is \u2018far and away\u2019 the best blood purifier and spring medicine ever produced.The necessity is found in the impure condition of the blood at this season, to the close confinement any brcathinx vitiated air in office, store, Hop.house.schoolroom or factory; ex cessive cating and diinking too rich and bearty food: late hours and social indul- With the blood thus thick and ow Ing gences.impure, the machinery oË life grinds lard.Hood's Sarsarnarilla nurifies, vitalizes : aud enriches the blood, builds up and] strengthens the nerves and tones the | stomach.Tt oils up the machinery of | thie whole body: the liver takes up its voerk anew, the kidneys resume activity, tlie ache goes out of the back, the howels are regulated, the appetite restored.the, food is rehshed and assimilated.Don\u2019t wait till you are thoroughly sick before vou begin to take a Spring Medicine, Lock the door before the horse is stolen, .Take Hood's Sarsaparilla now as a preventive and it will pay vou a thousandfold in health and strength through the coming summer.ng Medicine \u201cWe always take several bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla in our family every spring as a tonic and blood purifier, and we find that it overcomes that tired feeling, gives new life, and keeps us well all summer.\u201d WM.RINGEL, 813 5th avenue, Peoria, Illinois, Excellent Spring Medicine.\u2018For a number of years I have taken Hood's Sarsaparilla in the spring.not for any particular ailment, but on general principle, that the system needs a tonic at this time, and I have always found Hood's ; Sarsaparilla a most excellent spring medicine.\u201d HAKON HAMMER, Engineer, Potts- town, Pennsylvania.That Tired Feeling.\u201cI was troubled with that tired feeling aH the spring, I purchased three bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and when I had taken about half of it I was feeling well again.I belleve Hood's Sarsaparilla to be an excellent blood purifier and tonic.\u201d Miss ORA E.MORGAN, Busey.Illinois.Builds up the Health.\u201cWe take Hood's Sarsaparilla as a tonic in the spring.= Two of our children had tonsilitis and their blood was in a bad condition.Hood's Sarsaparilla built them up, and we have taken it again this spring with much benefit.\u201d\u201d Mrs.P.H, CAHOON, Pleasant Lake, Mass.N.B.\u2014If you decide to take Hood's Sarsaparilla do not be induced to buy anything else instead.There is no substitute for Hood'sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists.C.I.Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.81, six for 85.Prepared only by The One True Blood Purifier.Tenders.TENDERS FOR STEAM COAL, TIMBER, PLANKS and GENERAL STORES.HARBOR COMMISSIONERS THE Montreal invite tenders for about 5 060 tons of Steam Coal, and the Timber, Planks\u2019 and of General Stores required in 1897, per Specifications to be obtained from the undersigned in whose hands Scaled Tenders must be by noon of TUESDAY, March 23rd.The Commissioners reserve the right to reject the lowest or any Tender.ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Secretary.57 COMMON ST., Montreal}.| March 11, 1897.J THE.SU HEAD OFFICE: ASTHMACURE Recommended by Medical Authori- ti: in Europe, Asia and America for the immediate relief of Asthma and Bronchial trouble, Lyringitis and irritation of the air passages.Grimault's Cigarettes easc the feeling of tightness across the chest, and gives a general feeling of repose and comfort, 8o that you need not neglect your business or sit up ail night gasping for breath for fear of suffocation.Directions for uge enelosed with esch box Wholesale of Lyman, Soon & Co., Howtrerl.LLEY'S BRUSH WORKS, Victoria Square.All Brushes sold at Faotory Prices.ENGLISH BRISTLE BROOMS, WAX FLOOR and OILCLOTH MOPS, FURNACE FLUE BRUSHES MACHINE BRUSHES a Specialty.CARPET SWEEPERS REPAIRED.TEL.2740.20 (OF ROSSLAND.B-C.TORONTO, CANADA.THE MONTREAL | UNITED STATES CONGRESS YESTERDAY'S SESSION TAKEN UP WITH THE READING OF THE PRESIDENT\u2019S MESSAGE mere WHICH WAS DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO THE TARIFF QUESTION.Washington, March 15.\u2014President Mc- Kinley\u2019s proclamation convening the fifty-fifth Congress extraordinary session was read immediately after the Senate assembled at noon to-day.Though the session lasted until 3.25 p.m., when adjournment was taken until tomorrow, the greater portion of the time was spent waiting for the House to organize.President McKinley\u2019s message was devoted entirely to the tariff.While the reading of the message received the undivided attention of the Senators And gallery it evoked no demonstrations of either approval or disapproval.The President's message read as follows: \u2014 To the Congress of the United States: \u2014 Regretting the necessity which has required me to call you together, I feel that your assembling in extraordinary sesgion is indispensable because :of the condition in which we find the revenues of the country.It is coyceded that its current expenditures are greater than its receipts, and that such a copdition has now existed for more than three years.With unlimited means at our command we are presenting the remarkalfe spectacle of increasing the public debt by borrowing money to meet the ordinary outlays incident upon an economical and prudent administration of the government, The receipts of the government from all sources during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, were $372,802,499.29.and its expenditure $442,605,758,87, leaving a deficit, the first since the resumption of specie payments, of $69,803,260.58.Notwithstanding there was a decrease of $16,769,128.78 in the ordinary expenses of the government as compared with the previous fiscal year, its income was still not sufficient to provide for its daily necessities, and the gold reserve in the Treasury for the redemption of greenbacks was withdrawn to meet them.But this did not suffice, and the government then resorted to loans to replenish the reserve.In February, 1894, $50.000.000 in bonds were issued, and in November following a second issue of $50,000,000 was deemed necessary.The sum of $117,171,795 was in in recess, realized by the sale of these bonds, but the reserve was steadily decreased until February 8, 1895, a third sale of $62.315,400 in bonds for $65116,244 was announced to Congress.The receipts of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, were $390,- 373,283.30, and the expenditures $433,17S,- 426.4%.showing a deficit of $42,805,233.19.A further loan of F1N0,000,000 was negotiated by the government in February, 1894, the sale netting $111.168,246, and swelling the aggregate of bonds issued within three years to $262,315.400.Upon an even economical apd prudent adminigtration of the government, an examination of the subjeet discloses the fact in every detail d leads inevitably to the conclusion that ghe condi- tlon of the revenue which allows\u201dit is unjustifiable and should be corrected.© find by the reports of the Secretary df the Treasury that the revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, from all sources, ADVERTISEMENTS.LAWYERS and all other brain workers are subject to Acidity, Flatulency, Heartburn, Headache, Constipation, and many other ills arising from Indigestion.On the evidence of a host of prominent men, we unhesitatingly recommend K.D.C.and K.D.C.Pills as the Great Twin Remedies for these ills.They bring DAILY WITNESS.were $425,686,260.22, and the expenditures for all purposes were §415,953,806.56, leaving an excess of receipts over expenditfre of $9,914,453.66.During the flscal year $40,- 570,467.98 were paid upon the public debt, which has been reduced since March 1, 1889, $259,076,890, and the annual interest charge decreased $11,684,576.60, The receipts of the government from all sources during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, amounted to $461,716,501.94 and its expenditures to $459.374,887.65, showing an excess of receipts over expenditures of $20,- 241,674.Since that time the receipts of no fiscal year, and with but few exceptions of no month of any fiscal year, have exceeded the expenditures.For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, the revenues of the government from all sources amounted to $409.475,408.78, while its expenditures were $434,679,664.48, or an excess of expenditures over receipts of $25,023,245.70.In other words the total receipts for the three fiscal years ending June 30, 1896, were insufficient by $137,811,729.46 to meet the total expenditures.Nor has this condition since improved.For the first half of the present fiscal year the receipts of the government exclusive of pogtal revenues were $157,507,603.76, ard its expenditures exclusive of postal service $195.410,000.22, or an excess of expenditures over receipts of $37.902,396.46.In January of this year, the receipts exclusive of postal revenues were $24,316,994.05, and the expenditures exclusive of postal service 339.- 269.389.29, a deficit of $5,952,394.24 for the month.In February of this year the receipts exclusive of postal revenues, were $24.400,997.38, and expenditures exclusive of postal service, $28,796.056.66, a deficit of $4,395.059.28, or a total deficiency of $186,061,580.44 for the three years and eight months ending March 1, 1897.Not only are we without a surplus in the treasury.but with an increased public debt there has been a corresponding increase in the annual interest charge from $22,894,883.20 in 1892.the lowest of any year since 1862.to $34,387.597.60 in 1896, or an increase of $11.483,414.40, It may be urged that even the revenues of the government had been Insufficient to meet all its ordinary expenses during the past three years.the gold reserve would still have been insufficient to meet the Cemands upon it, and that bonds would necessarily have been issued for its repletion.Be this as it may, it is clearly manifest, without denying or affirming the correctness of such a conclusion, that the debt would have been decreased in at least the amount of the deficiency, and business confidence immeasurably strengthened throughout the country.Congress should promptly correct the existing condition.Ample revenues must be supplied.not only for the ordinary expenses of the government but for the prompt payment of liberal pensions and the Hquidation of the principal and interest of the public debt.In raising revenue, duties should be so levied upon foreign products as to preserve their market so far as possible to our own \u2018producers ; to revive and Increase manufactures : to relieve and encourage agriculture ; to increase our domestic and foreign commerce; to aid and develop mining and building.and to render to labor in every field of useful occupation the liberal wages and adequate rewards to which skill and industry are justly entitled.The necessity of the passage of a tariff law which shall provide ample revenue, need not be further urged.The imperative demand of the prompt enactment of such a measure.and to this object I earnestly recommend that Congress shall make every endeavor.Before other business ig transacted, let us first provide sufficient revenue to faithfully.administer the government without the contracting of further debt and the continued disturbing of our finances.; (Signed) WILLIAM McKINLEY.On motion of Mr.Allison (Ren, Towa,) the Senate at 3.23 adjourned until to-morrow at noon.lfm THE TRANSVAAL ENQUIRY.London, March 16.\u2014In the enquiry into the circumstances of the Transvaal raid, which was resumed by the parliamentary South , African Committee in Westminster Hall to-day, Mr.W.Z Schreiner, formerly Attorney-General of Cape Colony, was called to the stand.= Mr.Schreiner said in answer to a question that he very much doubted whether there were any steps which Mr.comfort, clear the brain, brighten the eyes, and impart strength and energy to the whole body.TEST THEM.K.D.C.Compauy, Limited.New Glasgow, N 5.and 127 State St, Boston, Mass.17 GOLD MINING COMPY LIMITED.SIR WM.P.HOWLAND, K.C.M.G., President.SENATOR THOS.R.McINNES, Vice=President.JOHN T.MOORE, F.C.A,, Man\u2019g Director.Since the previous announcement very important information has come to hand; and been embodied in the Company's prospectus.Those prudent people who would like a plain statement of fact should send for a copy.Notwithstanding the results of development are so gratifying, applications for Treasury shares, of ONE DOLLAR EACH fully paid up and non-assessable, will be filled at FIFTEEN CENTS, per share for the present, in blocks of not less than one hundred shares.BY yn sr Ee lal Apply to JOHN T.MOORE, Managing Director: Rhodes could have taken that would have stopped the raid made by Dr.Jameson into the Boer territory.The overthrow of the existing government of the Transvaal Republic, he said, would greatly endanger the peace of South Africa.lle had positive knowledge, he added; that the Transvaal Government was extremely anxious to observe their treaty obligations with Great Britain.A PAINFUL DEATH.Manchester, N.H., March 16.\u2014Miss Emma Garceau, aged twenty-four, employed in the Manchester Mills weave room, dropped a lighted lamp on her clothing at her boarding-house last night and was burned to death.The deceased leaves a brother and a sister here and parents in St.Eloi, Que.ADVERTISEMENTS.x oo MEER DISEASE KILLS.Relief in 30 Minutes.HEART The most pronounced symptoms of heart disease are palpitation, or fluttering of the heart, shortness of breath, weak or irregular pulse, smothering spells, swelling of feet or ankles, nightmare, spells of hunger or exhaustion.The brain may be congested, causing headaches, dizziness or vertigo.In short, whenever the heart flutters or tires out easily, aches or palpitates, it is diseased and treatment is imperative.Dr.Agnew\u2019s Heart Cure has.saved thousands of lives.It absolutely never fails to give perfect relief in thirty min- utes, and to cure radically.WEDNESDAY, MARrcH 17, 1807, THE 59TH BATTALION.MEETING FOR-REORGANIZATION\u2014A KILTIE REGIMENT.Cornwall, Ont., March 16.\u2014A meeting of the officers of the 59th Battalion was held yesterday in the chambers of the new commanding officer, Lieut.-Col.R.R.McLennan, M.P., in the Glengarry Block.There was a large attendance, every company being represented.Lieut.- Col.Bredin, the retiring commanding officer, was present and expressed his pleasure at handing over the battalion to so worthy a successor.A committee was appointed to draft an address to Colonel Bredin.Lieut.-Col.McLennan addressed the officers, and said he had every confidence that he would have their hearty co-operation in endeavoring to maintain the good standing of the battalion and make it second to no battalion in the country.The captains of the various companies have promised to enter zealously upon the work of increasing the efficiency of the battalion.It was decided to procure helmets for the men, and to secure the services of a competent drill instructor, to have his headquarters at Cornwall, who will assist those who wish to qualify themselves to pass the examinations at the Military Schools without spending the time necessary if they entered without preparatory instruction.The meeting was one of the best attended in the history of the battalion, and from the enthusiasm displayed it is evident that the 59th is to keep up its record and become one of the erack corps of the Canadian militia.It is deeply regretted by many prominent Scotchmen that in Stormont and Glengarry\u2014the Scotland of America\u2014 there is not a kilted corps or regiment.If the government saw fit to establish a Highland regiment here there would be no lack of volunteers.In fact, there would be little difficulty in raising in the two counties a corps two thousand strong, of the very cream of the population, men whose ancestors had been with Wolfe at Quebec, and with Wellington at Waterloo, or whose loyalty to the British flag made them exiles at the clese of the American revolution and urconquered patriots in 1812-13.The military spirit has always been strong in this section of Canada.The first permanent settlement of these counties was in 1784 when the front concessions of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry were divided among the officers and men of the 1st battalion of the King\u2019s Royal Regiment of New York, which had been raised by Sir Wm.Johnston during the revolutionary war, among the Dutch and Highland-Scoteh settlements of the Mohawk Valley.In Lancaster, Char- lottenburg and Cornwall were also settled a large number of the disbanded 84th Royal Highland emigrants which had been® raised among the Highland soldiers who had settled in America after the conquest of Canada from the French.These men\u2014and women too\u2014 were accustomed to hardship and suffering.Each U.E.Loyalist could tell a stirring tale of his adventures.Some of the older men had seen service in the French war under Howe, Abercrombie, Wolfe, Amherst or Sir Wm.Johnston.Many could tell of the defeat of Braddock or of the.desperate fight at the outworks of Ticonderoga, where Montcalm drove back.\u2019Abercrombie, of success at Frontenac or Niagara, of scaling the heights at Quebec and of victory when led by Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham, of the long and perilous voyage down the St.Lawrence with Amherst and the capitulation of Montreal.There were few whose loyalty to King and Crown had not made his life from 1776 to 1783 one of battle and adventure.Many could tell of service under Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745, and some, like John Me- Donell (Scotus) could show a claymore with the blade dented by blows on the bayonets of Cumberland\u2019's Grenadiers at (\u2018ulloden Moor.Lochiel Township was settled in 1796 by a party of colonists from Glenelg, Scotland.In 1802-3, three ships arrived at Quebec laden with emigrants from the north of Scotland.Among these were the disbanded soldiers of the Glen- garry Fencibles, a regiment whieh had been raised by the Chief of Glengarry in 1794 for service in Ireland.Most of these settled at St.Raphael's.When it is considered that the counties of Stormont and Glengarry were settled almost exclusively by disbanded soldiers, it will not be surprising to note that in the war of 1812-13 their sons should be found again fighting valiantly for the flag and king.In the rebellion of 1837-38 and more recently in ,the Fenian raids, they were again under arms.In fact, it seems that the martial spirit and magnificent physique of their ancestors have been handed down from generation to generation, and to-day if needed, the brawny young men of Stor- mont and Glengarry would be found ready and willing to take up arms for the maintenance of the empire, as their warlike progenitors were in years gone by.THE WINNIPEG GAMBLING CASE.Winnipeg, Man., March 16.\u2014\\Vinnipeg business men have been agitated lately over the case instituted against Messrs.Beceh & O\u2019Brien, grain operators of the Winnipeg Exchange, charging them with conducting a gambling house.Some vnsuccessiul speculators took this means of trying to get their money back.When the cuse was called in court, August Vo- | gel, who laid the information, said he had been induced to do so by deception, and he withdrew it, the case therefore being dismissed.However, counsel for the other prosecutors, who were taken completely by surprise, announced that new information - will be laid.Neventy witnesses have been summuoned on borh sides including many prominent business men, who have engaged in wheat speculation ; adie pére 4 THE CLERGY AND POLITICS.(To the Editor of the \u2018Witness.\u2019) Sir, \u2014In Saturday\u2019s issue of your paper you publish a letter from \u2018Protestant\u2019 While agreeing with many statements made by your correspondent, 1 beg permission to make one or two remarks.Ycur correspondent says :\u2014\u2018The interference cof the clerics is oniy effectual because the voters are convinced that they dare nnt refuse to ober them.\u201d Now it seems tn me that this statement miuht be put thus: The interference of the clerics is only effectual because the voters are ignorant Catholics.I wish to ac centuate the word \u2018ignorant.\u2019 If the people were more Catholic and less fanatical, more Roman and less Ultramon- tane, the clerical domination would soon cease.In France the majority of tlie pecple outside the great cities are indecd good Catholics, but they are not ignorant Catholics.The first great mistake was to give votes to people who were intellee- tually unfit to use them.It seems to me that any bishop or priest of whom it can be proved that he has unduly used his ecclesiastical power for political purposes should be dealt with and punished by the civil law.Our clectoral system is either good or bad.But not one in ten thousand would call it bad ; it has not even been condemned by the Ultramontane partv.If it be gocd it is grossly inconsistent to try to render it inoperative through class intimidation.As a Catholic IT am true to the teach: ings of the Church in whatever concerns matters of faith or morals ; as an Fng lishman I till never cease to protest against tyranny, intimidation and autocratic assumation.Had the clergy in England attempted thus to control the free actions of the people, out-of-door indignation meetings would have ere thi- been held in every town and village throughout the land.Can we not get together here in Montreal a gathering of those, whether Catholie or Protestant, who are zealous in the cause of British liberty ?No; the country is paralyzed and the people fear to speak.BERTRAM GREEN.Montreal, March 15, 1897.\u2014_\u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 THE GRANT MONUMENT.INAUGURAL CEREMONIES TO BE IMPOSING.New York, March 16.\u2014Mayor Strong, as chairman of the committee of the Grant monument inaugural ceremonies, hus sent invitations to-day to the President and Vice-President of the United States, the President\u2019s Cabinet, the Governors of all the states and other notable people, asking them to be present at the ceremonies of April 27.The Mayor sent a letter to President McKinley in which he says: \u2018I have the honor to respectfully request that you officially bring to the attention of all other nations the notable character of the event proposed to be celebrated in the city of New York on April 27, and that on behalf of the United States of America you invite all foreign governments to cause themselves to be represented in the naval part of the ceremonies incidental to the occasion by sending a ship of war to attend and participate.\u2019 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 A BITTER PILL FOR M\u2018GLOGAN.Detroit, Mich., March 16 \u2014Immigra- tion Inspector McGlogan of this city is likely to be disappointed in the matter of the apprchension of Mr.C.M.Copeland of Winnipeg, who is talked of as Michggan state secretary of the Y.M.C.A.McGlogan declared that he would send Mr.Copeland back to Canada under the alien contraet labor law if he attempted to come into this country, but a despatch from Winnipeg states that Copeland has been working in this country for several vears with the International Y.M.C.A., and that he was one time secretary of the Maryland State Association.It is also stated he was working in the United States when he accepted the Michigan State secretaryship.For that reason it is said the alien labor law does not apply in this case.THE fre \u2014__ A NARROW ESCAPE.Toronto, March 15.\u2014The Sundayv-school scholars of the Bathurst Street Methodist Church had a perilously narrow escape yesterday.Just as the doors were being opened and the little ones were crushing to get into the building to es cape the high wind that was raging, the brick chimney fell.crashing through the roof and demolishing the seats on the floor below.Had the accident happened five minutes later there would undoubtedly have been many fatalities.NEGRO MURDERERS LYNCHED.Jacksonville, Fla., March 16.\u2014A spe: cial from Ocala, Fla., states that three negroes named Ed.Holmes.Jim Milv end Jim Gilmour were lynched at Blue Springs station yesterday morning hy an armed mob of over four hundred men.They confessed to the murder of J.M.Barfield, postmaster.and his clerk.J.R.Turner, at Juliette, near there, op March 3.- AND NOTICES.Merit Appreciated.\u2014Brovn\u2019s Troches are world-renowned as a simple vet effective remedy ior Coughs and Throat Troubles.In a let ter from the lon.Mrs.Pery, Castle Grey, Limerick, Ireland, they are thus referred to :\u2014'Having brought your \u201cBronchial Troches\u201d with me when I came to reside here, 1 found that.after I had given them away to those I con NOTES True Brouchial will walk for miles to get a few.A sidered required them, the poor peoples (¥ A Wensespay, Marcu 17, 1897.et ee presses GEE ON Ee Pi MA PRONE ACD A THE MONTREAL 5 i j # DAILY WITNESS.» AN OLD TOOL.\u2014 | \u2018Be Mary 5.Daniels in ° The Independ- ; ent.) It was Divosion night at Black Rock.| Deacon Purdy and his wife sat in the hourly Kitehen of their old house on the La oo hdl Baad, us they had done on | I'rday evenings for years, awaiting the! return of \u2018the girls\" from the vitlage.| here had beens a time when they were | a~ unctual in oattendance upon Division | n- tively concerned in all neighborhood an.But it was long now | had been beyond their own [he deacon had grown old ti.10150 als ) They Stee Prone ls tte.nd asthma Rheumatic fever had Patil \u201cMa Purdy,\u201d es all her ac- Quainitantes called her.and lert her a helpless vec oh waitin hinbs once straight and fine, distorted aul stiffened.and Bots, ta~inencd for all womanly offices, areoked and raed.But the face that.-miied above tie bent shoulders was ra- | cant wath something stronger than pam, ted nis prescnre Compassion Was turn- dl into a veverence Infiuitely more tender than pity.This evening deepened lines in the worn | face upon which the lamphirht shone told of sutfering keener than usual.The knit.tne, with which the twisted fingers: Strawberries In Fine Condition, only £0c per Box.-\u2014 ALSO \u2014 HOT HOUSE TOMATOES, HOT HOUSE CUCUMBERS, HOT HOTSE MUSHROOMS, GREEN BEANS, SPINACH, EADISHES, RIHUBARR, Etc.\u2014AT\u2014 WALTER PAUL\u2019S, Cornor Mectcalie and St.Catherine Sts.WEDNESDAY, MarcH 17, 1897, ADVERTISEMENTS.ONLY INTE 3.2 Brine CANS FOLLOW DIRECTIONS.| osé MERICAN LINE.NEW YORK TO SOUTHAMPTON.From Piers 14 and 15, North River, New York (foot of Fulton sstreet.) 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