The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-08-04 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

of the incidents related by those who have escaped REPORTED ASSASSINATION OF JAMES .1'
and enccesded in reaching Neeles are of the IStrilarrenns /ntelligtruz
most extraordinary character. One of the most • CAREY.
pithetic incidents is that respecting Count Ser- Great excitement was caused in Lendon on Monday SOME, FOREIGN. AND COLONIAI,,
ardi, wl o eseaeed from the wreck of the Hotel
Piccola Seetinella, where he had been staying evening by the publication of-the statement that James
with his sister. On recovery from the first shock he Carey, whose evidence assisted so materially to bring
resolved to make an attempt to rescue her, and for to justice the assassins of Lord Frederick Cavendish
three hours he worked among the debris, all the while and Mr. Burke, was shot dead on Sunday lust onboard
calling out the name of his sister. He worked on even the steamer Melrose, at or near Port Elizabeth (Alcoa
with bleeding hands, and rescued eleven persons. At
length he heard the voice of his sister, who faintly Bay), South Africa. This startling intelligence was
answered his call. He made a desperate exertion to first made known on Monday evening in the lobby of
get near her, but fell and broke his leg, and a few the House of Commons, where it very naturally ex
minutes later the sister herself expired. cited a deep interest, by a -telegram which had been
Prince Giustiniani Badini and his son hada marvellous communicated to the Home Secretary by Messrs.
escape. The Prince is described as having been seated
in a room in the hotel, playing cards with a circle Donald Currie and Co., the owners of the Castle line
of friends. His son was at the window, drawing of steamers trading to the Cape of Good Hope, Port
a moonlight scene, when the table was sad- Elizabeth, and Natal. The message received by the
denly overturned, and the falling lamp set company was in the following words :
fire to the carpet. At the same moment the Piince's James Carey, Irish informer, shot dead on board
son exclaimed, "An earthquake ! Save yourselves."
When the second shock was felt the walls of the hotel Melrose, July 29, by a passenger named O'Donnell."
rocked and opened, but the party managed to reach Later advices not only confirm this report, but state
the door, and rushed outside the house, amidst clouds that the ammeter made no effort to escape, and was hel-
d sulphurous dust. They were appalled by what had mediately secured.
happened, and remained amid the ruins until day- Other telegrams from Port Elizabeth are to the effect
break. Father and EOU arrived here to-day, and have that Carey was just about to land when O'Doenell
proceeded to Rome. drew a revolver and fired, wounding Carey mortally.
The aetor Petito, who was performing at a tempo- The murderer, who made no attempt to escape, was
racy theatre, escaped unhurt, as did also most of his immediately secured.
audience. He arrived here to day, in the dress of a Pul-
cinella, bringing with him a number of dead and
wounded persons. Unfortunately, however, such escapes
were exceptional. l'here lien° possibility of even approxi-
mately giving a list of the visitors and other strangers
who h4ve perished. The Minist,r of Public Works is
at Casamicciola, and is untirinain his exs rtions to
relieve suffering and restore order. The English
Consul at Naples has also gone across to the island,
but he is quite unable to distinguish how many Eng-
lish there may have bee i Sri et, e foreigners killed
or maimed.
It is known that about fifteen hundred visitors were
on the island for the bathing season, and the greater
number of these must have perished. The death of
Count Filigaui is confirmed, and many other noble
Roman families have lost one or more of their ruem•
leers. The consternation and anxiety here and in the
capital are indescribable, and are, of course, exag-
gerated by the continued suspense.
The Premier, Signor Depretis, has telegrapbed to
the authorities to spare co efforts or expense in reliev•
ing the victims, and from all sides support and assist
ance have been proferred, The Pope has subscribed
twenty thousand francs to the fund for this purpose,

EXAMINATION CURIOSITIES—Mr. W. A. Thomas
has just reported to the School Management Com-
mittee the results of the written examination for the
London School Board scholarships for this year,
which, he says, are unsatisfactory. After stating that
the examination in history showed a wretched result,
he gives the following instances :—" Write as concisely
as you can a history of the English Parliament," is
answered in several cases by an account of the Gun-
powder Plot. "Give a short history of events in Ire-
land in the reign of William III." is answered by
an account of the conquest of Ireland in the time of
Henry IL "Trace clearly the causes which led to the
Civil War in the time of Charles I." is answered by a
list of battles with dates. The answers to "Compare
the characters of William the Conqueror and Edward
I." are (except in rare instances) complete failures.
There is one thing that passes any comprehension, and
that is what could have been in the brain of the child
who said that Mr. Forster wrote "The Pilgrim's Pro-
gress." As to geography, he reports that the mistakes
in spelling would disgrace children of eight years of
age, and that in the answers there was clear evidence
of overmuch oral teaching.

TWEED SALMON FISHINGS.—The &hinge during
last week were exceedingly good, salmon, grilse, and
trout being had at all the fishings in fair quantities.
Prices on Saturday were :—Salmon, lid.; trout, 9d.;
and grilse 9d. per lb. At the corresponding perioa
last year the prices were :—Salmon, is.; grilse, 11d. ;
and trout, 10d. per lb.

It will be remembered that Carey for a long time
resisted the efforts o 'the authorities to send him to a
place of safety in the colonies, ex reeding a desire to
remain in Dublin. The authorities, however, de.
clined to be responsible for his safety under such
conditions, und urged him to select a home abroad.
Carey thereupon placed himself in the hands
of the Government, and it was arranged that he
should be sent to South Africa, but whether Carey
himself was aware of his destination is doubtful. The
police were aware all along of the strenuous efforts
made to obtain some clue to Carey's movements, and
the utmost secrecy was observed by the police with a
view to throw his enemies off the scent. Montreal was
mentioned as the destination semi-officially, but this,
it ic now evident, was merely a rue. So stringent were
the authorities that it is doubtful if more than one or
two of the higher Officials in Dublin Castle knew of
the arrangements for Carey's disposal. The informer
himself was only ordered a few hours previous to the
time of departure to get in readiness, and the police
who accompanied him the first stage of his journey
were likewise unaware of his ultimate destination,
although they had orders to report themselves in
London for further instructions.

MINERAL DISCOVEBIF.B IN VlRGlNlA.—lmportant
mineralogical investigations have recently been made
in S9uth-West Virginia. A w-ll•known geologist,
writing on the subject in the Scientific American, states
that within 500 miles of New York City there is a
large section of country, comprising from 12,000 to
14,000 square miles, which, for the quantity and
variety of its minerals, is in all probability the richest
and most interesting mineral country in the world, and
one not surpassed by Saxony, in Europe. This re.
markab e section lies on the borders of Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina, and West Virginia. Seven-
teen counties of Virginia are included in it, and to these
may be added Ashe, Alleghany, and Wantaugacountiea
in North Carolina, which form an integral part of the
same geological formation and contain the same kind
of minerals. In this section are to be found gold,
silver, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, iron, manganese,
plumbago arsenic, antimony, limestone, gypsum, salt,
barytes, kaclin, feldspar, soapstone, firnclay, asbetos,
talc, mica, umber, millstone grit, marble, sandstone,
,eranite, syenite, and many of the minor minerals
useful in arts and manufactures. Besides this the
country is finely timbered from the valleys to the
mountain-tops with white oak, walnut, maple, tulip
trees, basswood, hickory, cherry, chestnut, buckeye,
cucumber tree, chestnut and other oaks, dogwood,
white pine, black pine, spruce, cedar, and many other
useful and valuable woods.. The district is also a tine
agricultural and fruit-growing one, and is especially
adapted for the-raising of cattle and sheep.
YACHT INTELLIGENCE.—Answering her helm.—
Judy. _ _

Writing on Monday, the Naples Correspondent of
the D.ily Telegraph says :—The scene here today has
been of a most distressing character. Hundreds of
persons have arrived in the city in search of missing
relatives or friends, and make the mournful round
of deadhouses in a frenzied state Numbers, dis-
appointed here, have gone on to Casamicciola, but
all the dead bodies of visitors recovered there
are brought on to this place for identification.
Boats have been arriving hourly throughout the morn-
ing packed with the dead and dying, In one in-
stance the cargo consisted of twenty-four little
children, some of them infants, all laid out in their
white shrouds. These were taken to one hospital,
and placed in rows. The sight of so many little
beings crushed aroused the liveliest feelings of
sympathy from among the spectators. As may be
imagined, not only are the hospitals full, but the
churches, which have been taken for hospitals, are
also crowded. The barracks, which have been extem-
porised for the reception of the dead, are also crovved
to excess, and each succeeding building selected be-
comes filled almost directly.

Telegraphing on Tuesday the Durban Correspondent
of The Times says
In regard to the assassination of James Carey, it
appears that he was travelling under the name of
Power, and was shot on board Messrs. Donald Currie
and Company's steamer Melrose, on the voyagp from
Caue Town to Port Elizabeth, last Sunday. A. pas-
senger named O'Donnell fired three times at himwith
a revolver. Carey lived twenty minutes afterwards,
but did not speak. O'Donnell is in custody at Port
Elizabeth. Carey's body was taken ashore at Port
Elizabeth, amid great excitement, a large crowd being
present.
A Reuter's telegrarh, dated Cape Town, July 31,
says 7—No doubt is entertained of the identity of the
man shot at Port Elizabeth with James Carey, the
informer. He died without speaking. The murderer
Is an Irish-American, in whose possession an infernal
o,achine has been found. He is now under examina-
tion and denies all knowledge of Carey previous to his
arrival at Cape -Town.
O'Donnell, the man who assassinated the Irish
informer James Carey, maintains a calm demeanour.
It is supposed that he is a fanatic, and that on his
arrival at Cape Town, finding that Carey was on
board the same vessel as himself, he came to the
determination to shoot him, and, consequently, fol-
lowed him on to the Melrose. The murder occurred
on Sunday on board that vessel, near Algoa Bay,
and in the presence of Carey's wife and family.
O'Donnell is at present strongly guarded on account
of rumours being current that a rescue would be
attempted.

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MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY.—A case which will
be of far-reaching importance under the Married
Women's Property Act has been decided by Mr.
Justice Chitty (remarks the Law Times). A husband
had left his wife, and was, it was stated, in occupation
a separate establishment, but he occasionally re-
turned to the house in which his wife was living, and on
leaving took with him any article t n which he could
lay his hands. The house had been comprised in the
marriage settlement, and was settled upon trust for
sale with consent of both husband and wife, while the
house itself until sale, and, when sold, the proceeds of
sale, were to be for the separate use of the wife with-
out power of anticipation. Acting on the precedents
of "Green v. Green" and " Allen v.Walker, ' Mr, Jus-
tice Chitty, on the application of the wife, made an
order restraining the husband from going to the house.
It was urged that this was in effect to grant a judicial
separation' which could only be done in the Divorce
Court; but the learned judge pointed out that it was
only granting the wife that protection for her property
to which she was as much entitled against her husband
as against a stranger, and if the husband was aggrieved
he could provide another house for his wife, and if she
refused to live there could sue for the restitution of
conj gal rights. As in such a case he could scarcely
be successful, it is obvious that under the new Act, by
which all a married woman's property is henceferth
I settled to her separate use, the power of the wife is
likely to be materially extended, not only over her pro-
perty, but also over her person.
THE FISHERIES Exemimolie-LThe total number of
visitors to the Exhibition reached 1,000,000 during the
course of Tuesday, that is to say, within 68 days of
the opening on Whit Monday. This gives an average
of about 14 700 visitors per diem. The two largest
days were Wnit Monday' and Tuesday with 42,941 and
29,446 visitors respectively. The third on the list is
ast Saturday with 26,351.
PROMOTIONS FROM THE ItANKS.—It may be interest
ing to note, says the Army and Navy Gazette, that at no
previous period of our military hiietery have so many
officers from the ranks held commissions in the army as
at the present day. In the cavalry alone there are 11
captains and 31. subalterns who have commenced at the
bottom of the ladder • while in the infantry of the line I
two lieutenant-colonels, two majors, 11 captains, and I
28 subalterns have gained their first military expe-
riences in the ranks. That the promotions in the
cavalry should have exceeded those in the infantry
is explained by the fact that the mainet .f than;;.
couto 130 A oommission Iron. the ranks
selected the mounted branch of the service as he corn-
menoement of their carreer. Two regiment. the
King's Dragoon Guards and the 14th Hussars—have
each four officers from the ranks, exclusive, of course,
of the Quartermasters; while the 3rd Dragoon Guards
and the 6th Inniskillings count each three. Seven
subalterns, it is pleasing to add, have been promoted
for services in the field.
A POSITIvE BENEFIT TO THE COUNTRY.—LittIe
SFffins.—"D'you have many Londoners down here,
my boy ? " Youthful Rustic.—"Naw, sir, more's the
pity I We had a painter-man down last year. Ah
waarn't everybody sorry to get rid on un I" Little
Spiffins (graciously).—" Indeed I Why ?" Youthful
Rustic.—" A-paintin' in the orchards an' fields, he wur
that useful as a scarecrow. Ne'er a bird 'ud come
anigh whiles he wier about." (Anxiously)—"Be yew
a painter-man, sir ? "—Fun.
THE SITNDERLAND DISASTER. —On Tuesday a
special meeting of the Relief and Memorial Fund
Committee was held in the Council Chamber, Sunder-
land. rhe Mayor presided. Mr. Shadfortb, chair
man of the Relief Committee, stated that a further
sum of £1.16 had been distributed, and should the
General Committee desire further help to be given to
the bereaved the Relief Committee were willing to
carry out their instructions. The meeting, which was
very largely attended, resolved unanimously that the
matter of the relief of the bereaved should be left in
the hands of the Relief Committee. It was further
determined that steps should be takfon to obtain
further subscriptions to carry out the projected
memorial convalescent home.
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES,—
The Madrid Correspondent of the Standard writes :
In a remarkable historical work on Central
America, and its early annals of Spanish Conquest,
about to be published by Don Manuel de Piralta,
Minister of the Republic of Costa Rica to several
European Courts, I have read several documents of
great interest, casting light upon our naval struggle
with Spain off the coasts of the Spanish main, and
one remarkable letter from a Spanish officer of rank
who was a prisoner of Sir Franeis Drake, having been
captured with his ship and afterwards set free. He
describes most pithily the daring exploits of the
British corsairs, and tells how he heard Drakelaimeelf
relate that, directly after passing the Straits of
Magellan, he was obliged to put in icons for 24 hours,
and' then to behead, his Lieutenant—Doughtye—much
as he regretted to have to chastise so good an officer,
for giving an example of insubordination' and for ex-
pressing a desire to turn back from what afterwards
proved to be a voyage round the world. It is curious
to read in these quaint letters of eye-witnesses, the
tale of the wild and roving adventures of our Somer-
setehire and Devonshire seamen on the Pacific shores
of America, braving such seas in vessels of 200 tons,
with 80 scurvy-stricken and fever-ridden hands. Their
Spanish prisoner gloomily deplores at the end of his
epistle that if the Cor eeir heretic is not caught, he will
take heme at least 40 pilots for others to follow in his
wake. Sefior de Piralta assures me that the archives
of the Indies at Seville and the Royal Library are
full of unexplored data of interest to Buglishmen ;
and he believes years would be necessary to classify
and catalogue the treasures of Spanish archives at
Seville, Alcula, Simancas, and Madrid, to eay nothing
of private collections like that about to be sold of the
Duke de Ossuna."
AN ASTRONOMICAL TIMEKEEPER. —J. Brander
Matthews, ot New York, sends to Notes and Queries
the following description of a device of a Nevada
miner for ascertaining the time of day :—" A man
who was appointed watchman at a mine on the Com-
stock had no watch. He did not wish to buy one, yet
was desirous of knowing how the time Was passing.
He borrowed the watch of a friend for one night.
On returning the watch the next day he told his
friend that he was all right now, that he had a time-
keeper of his own. He then unrolled a strip of paper,
some four inches in width, from a stick, and exhibited
It as his clock. On this strip of paper he had marked
down, as they rose above the horizon, all the stars and
constellations within a narrow belt. Opposite each
star was the time of its making its appearance—hour
and minute. The watchman says his watch is a tine
timekeeper. He has recently improved it somewhat.
The slip of paper now runs on two small rollers that
are 'placed in a small box, which has a sliding lid of
glass. As the night wears away and the stars pass
over, he now turns the crank of his watch, and
looks at the time maikeri by the side of each. To
wind up his watch he runs the tape back upon the
init;al roller."
THE ORIGIN OF AMBER.—Some very interesting re-
searchee have recently been made on the flora of the
amber-bearing formations of Beet Prussia by Messrs.
Goappert and Menge. In ancient times tcere must
have been in this part of Europe a group of conifers
comprising specimens from almost all parts of the
world. Among the splendid specimens of the Califor-
nian conifetze were the red wired, the sugar pine, and
the Douglas spruce; and of the examples of the Ea.-
tern States were the bald cypress, red cedar, thuya,
and the Pinus rigida ; from the eastern coasts of Asia
were the Chaise, incense cedar, the parasol fir, the
arbor vita, the glyptostrchus, and the thuyopsis ;
and the Scotch fir, the spruce, and the cypress of
Europe, and the callitris of Southern Africa. It appears
that the deposits of amoer for which the Baltic is noted.
are the pro tec,, Of generations of these resin-bearing
trees. The richest deposits are situate along a strip.of
coast between Memel and Danteic, though the real
home of amber has teems supposed to lie in the beds of
the Baltic between Bornhelm and the mainland.
Immense quantities of amber are washed out to sea
torn tf e coae% or brought down by rivulets and cast
ty again during storms or in certain winds. The
actual yield by quarrying is 200,0001 b., to 300,0001 b. a
year, or five times the quantity estimated to be oast
up by the waves on the strip of coast above men-
tioned,

A correspondent of the Daily Nem says that an in.
cident not without a dash of grim bunaon- mingled
with its sadness occurred on Monday morning., An
exploring party found a farmhouse of which only two
wails wera left standing. On the top of these were
an aged couple, who had sat perched up there opposite
each other since Saturday night, unable to help them.
selves or each other.

Noticing the disastrous occurrence, the Daily Tele-
graph, in a leader, says :
Caearnicciola, sheltered from the hot south winds
and open to the delightfal breezes blowing from the
north, has long been looked on as the healthiest and
mo-t charming place near Naples in which to spend
the eumme-. Its mineral waters and medicated bathe
abound in curative properties, and its scenery is
ameng the most picturesque in the Mediterranean
Artists flock thither from every land. Geologists and
antiquaries find there a rieh field of study and research.
Nature and art have combined with history and poetry
to make the Picethusa, Anaria, and Marime of the
ancients and the Ischia ot the mo erns admired and
famous There it was that Vittoria Colonna, the
great Italian poetess arid widow of the Marquis of
Pescara, the conqueror of Francis I. of France, retired
to grieve for the loss of her beloved spouse—an ex-
ample followed by another beautiful widow, the cele-
brated Mary of Aragon, who, in the mild and genial
climate of the island, retained her loveliness to beyond
the age of sixty years. Ischia has seen battles by sea
and land, wars and sieges innumerable, and has
been taken and lost, again and .again, by Princes
and Generals, by Greeks and Saracens, Pisans and
Catalonians, Germans and French. In the six-
teenth century it was pillaged by Barbarossa, and in
the seventeenth century captured by the Duke
de Guise, and in the present century was occupied by
Admiral Lord Nelson, and sheltered Prince Murat in
his ii.ehte tee, .F tar ciliate aim rtf the JNI- lie Alf Zre`Wilt29,
of conquest and famine, the sky above it remained
beautiful and blue, the sun shone down upon the vine-
clad sides of Epo-teue, the goats browsed and played
amid the cool breezes from the sea and through the
laden orchards where oranges, limes, and almonds,
pomegranates, figs, and water-melons hung upon the
trees and strewed the teeming ground—a wealth of
fruit and flowers to be had almost for the asking. Still
from age to age the volcanic Epomeus dealt death and
destruction around. Opening his dreadful jaws
he vom.ted forth fire and ashes, pumice and soothe,
tumbling the land into the sea and making huge
breaehee in the shore, whence the water rushed in
and covered the land. With fire and flame, with
mighty rumblings and frightful upheavals, the giant
struggled, and in his uncontrollable Titanic con-
vulsions turned the Paradise into a Pandemonium.
The nobles and legislators from Rome, the native
gentry and foreign tourists from Naples had forgotten
or ceased to r. gard these old-world stories. Seeking
after health and pleasure, they make themselves merry
amid the treacherous beauties of Ischia, not recking
that nature, as of old, might at any moment con-
front them unprepared, with awful ruin and sudden
death.

In the House of Commons on Tuesday Sir R. Cross
asked whether the accounts in the papers about the
assassination of Carey, the informer, were true, and
whether he was at the time of his death under police
protection or not.
Sir W. Harconrt, in reply, said :—I will give the
right hon. gentleman all the information I possess.
rhe Government have received no direct information
themselves about this matter ; hut the agents of
of Messrs. Currie, the owners of the steam vessel
plying to the Cape of Good Hope, communicated to
me yesterday afternoon the following telegram :--
"James Carey, Irish informer, shot dead on board
the Melrose, 29th July,by passenger named O'Donnell."
That is all the information I possess on the subject. I
have no knowledge of the protection afforded to Carey
by the police, that being a matter for the Irish force.

The Daily Telegraph of Wednesday says
On inquiry yesterday at the offices of Messrs.
Donald Currie and Co. it was stated that no telegrams
with respect to the assassination of Carey had been re-
ceived later than those already published, but it had
been ascertained that a few days prior to the de-
parture of the Kinfauns t:astle berths were booked for
Port Elizabeth for Carey, his wife, and seven children.
The berths were third class, and the name in
which they were taken was that of Power. The
tNtetrayrell'ar,—Za July 2, the man 6-.l,onneil en-
gaged in London second class berths in the same
vessel for himself an,i wife. It is not known at
the head offices in Fenchurch•street at which port
Carey actually embarked. The Kinfauns Castle on
arriving at Cape Town on July 27 transferred the cargo
shipped for Natal to the Melrose. and this work, it
is believed, was completed in sofficient time to allow
the coasting vessel to commence her voyage at noon on
Aaturday, the 28th ult. At her usual speed—about 9i
knots an hour—the Afelrose accomplishes the journey
to Port Elizabeth (Algoa Bay), a distance of about 520
miles, in forty-eight hours. According to the original
despatch, received in London at 1.59 p.m. on the 30th,
the murder was committed on Sunday, the 29th. That
telegram would have been sent off immediately the
ship arrived at Algoa Bay, and it is therefore
dear, it is observed, that Carey was shot while the
Melrose was on the high seas. Messages to ascertain
the exact locality were forwarded yesterday to Port
Elizabeth. There is no truth in the report that
O'Donnell went out to South Africa by an earlier
steamer than the Kinfauns Castle. Messrs. Donald
Currie and Co. are awaiting the instructions of the
Government as to the disposal of Mrs. Carey and her
seven children.

DISASTERS AT SA.—The Bureau Veritas has just
tAthlisked the following statistics of maritime dintster, reported during the month of June, 1883, eon.
cerning all flags :—Sailing vessels rep ..t-d
American, 29 British, one Danish, three Dutch, three
French, tour German, one Greek, three Ita,ian, seven
Norwegian, two Portuguese, one Rus,il.n, three
Swedish—total, 72. In this number are included nine
vessels reported miring. Steamers reported lost,—
One An3ericsn ten British, one French, one Greek,
one Nor wegian—t.)tal, 14. In this number is included
one steamer reported missing.

A Russian schooner is shortly to start from Arch-
angel for Nova Zembla, to visit the fishermen's refuge
and meteorological and salvage stations recently esta-
blished there by the Minister of Marine.
The colony of Fiji, under the administration of Sir
George William des Vain, continues to make satisfao-
tory proarpss. During the current year a surplus of
from £5,000 to £lO,OOO is anticipated.

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The Town Council of Marseilles has determined on
accepting the gift of the Pharo Park and Chateau
gracefully made by the Empress Eugenie after she
had won the lawsuit concerning her right to the pro.

"Two Nems."—One of our friends in the Mid.
lands has recently had two experiences worth relating
(says the Warehousemen and Drapers' Trade Journal).
A little girl came in for some blue velveteen—a yard
and two nails. After the necessary inquiries, the
quantity required was measured off, wrapped up, and
the bill and the change given to the little one. But
she wanted" the two nails." Over and over again the
nature of a linear nail was explained to her, but she
wanted her two nails. The difficulty was at last
explained to the principal. "Oh, get her two tin.
tacks," he said. And so they did, and the pergistent
little maid went away satisfied.

perty.
The first engine of the Servian State Railway hag
arrived in Paracin. The whole population turned oat
to celebrate the event, and congratulatory telegranas
were sent to the King and the Ministers.
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In view of the possibility of an outbreak of cholera,
the Paris Municipal Council have voted 480,000 franog
for the erection of wooden buildings in the bastions of
the fortifications to serve as hospitals. Eventually
these will he used for patients suffering from other

contagious diseases.
Intelligence from Egypt says that there are re'
ports of great damage by the cotton worm. In some
of the plants there are 40 worms nearly as large se
silkworms. In one field at Kingosman the plants were
so covered that all have been taken up and burnt.

LOSS OF LIFE IN THE AMERICAN WAR.—Aecord.
ing to the statistical record of the armies of the United
States, from April, 1861, to May, 1865, there were
2,261. engagements between the Confederate and the
Union forces. The losses in battle were smaller than
the number of those who died of disease. From May,
1861, to Jane, 1865, in the army hospitals 6,049,648
cases were treated, 185,353 men died and 223,535 were
discharged, disabled by wounds or disetv,e from con-
tinuing their services in the army. The year after the
war 10,274 soldiers died, making a total of 195,627
deaths in hospitals. The number of all who died
during the war cannot be accurately ascertained; the
nearest approach that has been arrived at is that losses
by death amount to 304,369. Of these from 35,000 to
61,000 were killed Li:aright in battle, 35,000 to 50,000
died of wounds received in action, 150,000 to 190,000
died of disease. This total does not include the Con-
federate dead, who were at least as numerous.
TREE PLANTING IN MEXICO.—The Mexican Govern-
ment has concluoed a contract with Mr. Oscar A.
Droege to plant two millions of trees in the valley of
Mexico within four years, commencing March 15,
1884. Half a million trees a year are to be planted ist
such places as the Government shall decide. The
contractor pledges himself to establish a number of
nurseries and to have in them each year at least 80,000
ash, 35,000 willows, 120,000 poplars, 60,000 eucalyptus
trees, 60,000 trcenos-japones, 60,000 mountain cypress
cedars, 60,000 acacias, and 120,000 of miscellaneous
varieties. The trees must be in plantations of from
50,000 to 100,000 each. and Mr. Droege has to main-
tain them for two years after planting. He is not
compelled to plant trees along the highways, however.
Three graduates of the School of Agriculture are to
be received into the nurseries each year, there to study
the science of forestry. He is also to raise fruit and
other useful plants for free distribution. Mr. Droege
Is to receive annually 40,000 dole, till the sum reaches
a total of 200,000 dole.

Last week's receipts of cotton at all United States
ports were 8,000 bales ; since Ist September, 5,913,009
bales. Week's exports to Great Britain, 7,000 balsa ;
to the Continent, 6,000 bales ; total since Ist S__,,,t3P•
tember, 4,589,000 bales, Stock at all ports, 331-,uuy

bales.
A tele'gram receives at Pesth from Hammerfeet rft
ports that the Hungarian traveller Stoll arrived nn
the North Cape on July 23rd, and on the following
night made observations of the mid-night sun. The
spectacle is described as magnificent. Two spots were
observed on the sun's face.
Lieutenant Wiseman, who some time ago walked
across Africa from Zanzibar to the mouth of till
Congo, has retuined to Berlin, and has been received
by the Crown Pzince.
As a waggon booking clerk named Martin Was
engaged at Bamber-bridge, near Preston, be woll
caught by a passing train, knocked on the metals, finu
cut in two. He was 18 years of age.
The Geneva police have interdicted the sale of
Salvationist tracts in the streets, and at Auboroles
Canton Vaud, two officers of the army have been fine'
2.0 francs each for selling Mr. Booth's hymns.
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At the Wesleyan Conference on Saturday thl
numerical returns for the various districts wera Pre*
sented, showing a membership of 407,000, with 0134
wards of 2,000 on trial.

Professor J. E. Spanoghe, of the Royal Athenssunis
Antwerp, supposes that colliery explosions are more
frequently due to the minute particles of coal duel
floating in the air than to carburetted hydrogel
escaping from the coal. He recommends that jets 0,
steam should be employed in the levels to lay hold
the dust and deposit it in a harmless condition.
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The ship Ellora, of 1,727 tons, Captain W. Clayt,
chartered by Sir Saul Samuel, K.C.M.G., Agent;
General for New South Wales, sailed from Plyinoute
for Sydney on the 28th July, with 469 emigrants.
The fisherm‘ai in Messrs. Hewett's "short blue,
fleet," which includes 200 sail of vessels, have collecte°,
among themselves and sent to the Lord Mayor 0,
London £33, as a donation to the fund for the relief or
the sufferers by the fishing disasters in the North Seth
in which 382 men and boys lost their lives.
For a bet of half.a.crown, Thomas Murphy, thirtr
one, attempted on Friday night in last week to swi.me
across a deep hole in the River Ribble, called ta
Stone Deeps, at Preston, when the tide was nearlY
at full. He entered the water, saying, "Now r_rl2
acting Captain Webb ;" and when he had awuw
about eighty yards he threw up his arms and sank.
His body was recovered in about two hours.
Advicee received from Honolulu state that fifty.6l
children died of measles and whooping-cough on boe7,
the steamer Hankow during her voyage from Loll"
to the Sandwich Islands.
A serious disaster has occurred at Treble,
, Caltanisetta, Sicily, where a sulphur mine has el
ploded, causing thirty-five deaths.
Miss Macleod, who has been two years in the gigh:
land settlement, Robeson County, North Carolina. l'
on a visit to the West Highlands of Scotland witb
view to induce the poorer crofters to emigrate. Sb,
states that the Highlanders in North Carolina 103
prepared to receive fifty crofters and their families,olll
have made arrangements to support them for the"
year.
The Emperor of Russia has subscribed, through
Prince Orloff, 2,000 f. to the Diderot statue at Vdro
ere.. This year is the centenary of the philosopher
famous visit to St. Petersburg.
A bathing fatality occurred on Calais sands 0136
Monday. Two young men were bathing from 04
of the machines when they were caught by tt,
eddy which sets round the pier, and carried out
sea. Beforli any assistance could be rendered to thew
they had sunk. Their bodies were not recovered.
In London, on Tuesday afternoon, representative_e
of the Government party and the Opposition met c,W.
Prince's Ground to contest the palm in lawn tenni!.
The setts were played with what might be termed alter,
nate fortunes, but eventually rain stopped the Or
and the matches were left drawn.
el the
In London last week 2,631 births and 1,605 ..es
were registered. Allowing for increase of populatioo'
the births were 14 and the deaths 165 below the est
rage numbers in the corresponding weeks of the 101,1
ten years. The annual rate of mortality from
causes, which had steadily increased in the six
ceding weeks from 16 9 to 23.5, declined again to 21
a
A statue of the late Earl of Beaconsfield, subscribe
far by the members, has been plased in the Conser_l
tive Club (London). The statue is the work of Caw
Gleichen, and represents the departed statesman ill
t
attitude familiar to many people. It is clothed,1
morning costume, and stands in an easy attitude, ifj,;•
arms crossed and a scroll of paper in one band.
likeness is excellent.
ss.
It is as yet impossible accurately to forecast the ate'
of the prorogation (says the Daily News). But arrange:
merits are being mace from which it is expected the'
the business of the season will be wound up on Set°
day, the 25th inst.
A Naples telegram of Tuesday's date says tbat
Mount Vesuvius is in a state of active eruption.
is descending in the direction of Torre del Greco.
News has been received at Rome that ProfesOr
Mansueli of the Geographical Institute at Florerisei
has lost his life in an attempt to make the ascent °,,f
Monte Santa Callarina, in the Valteline. Sigr',;(l
Mansneli started on his perilous journey accomPsn's
' by a guide, and the bodies of both have been found
a peak of Santa Callarina.
for
Sir Saul Samuel, K.C.M.G., Agent• General
New South Wales, has been informed by telegrso,:h
the arrival in Sydney of the ship Illawarra, whr'"
sailed from Plymouth with emigrants in May last.
From April Ist to the 28th tilt, the Treasury receie
amounted to £26,915,764, as compared with £26,173,°7
in the c, rrespondinz period of last year. The exP;
diture has been £29,877,753. On Saturday last .„-a
balance in the Bank ofdPogland was £2,277,6550
In the Bank of Ireland £872,100.
Despatches received at the Foreign Office 0011,61
the statements in the Press with respect to the sfq,,o
slaves at Morocco. Some correspondence has tio'd
place on the subject, which will in due course be 01
before Parliament.
A Glasgow telegram states :—Mr. Gladstoneol
understanding that the testimonial to the Duke
Buccleuch is not of a political character, contribute.:
ten guineas, and says, "No one joins with greet'
pleasure in the movement than I do."
ma
Pour fine fat bucks were on Saturday forwars..A
by the Chief Commissioner of Works to the rio;;;,
Mayor of London at the Mansion House, so
annual present from Windsor Great Park, and ths.o-1
each were sent at the same time to the Sheriggi.r
London and Middlesex, and one each to the Recoru..,' '
the Common Serjeant, the Town Clerk, the Cbew.
berlain, and the Rsmembrancer.
The War Department of the United States
despatched Lieutenant Schwatka, with two otutw
officers and three privates, to Alaska upon
ploring expedition, which is to extend over six meow.;
The lieutenant is instructed to ascend the Chiloot riftoe
to its source, and then cross over the dividing ridge
the presumed source of the Yukon, which river D•
to follow to its mouth.
The annual report of the Board and 000..&
Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons states 1'274
during the collegiate year, from July, 1882, to JuilL.
the present year, there were 1,119 students from
cognised medical schools examined for the diplomtki
member of the college, of which number 795 passed
primary or anatomical and physiological examinatio 0
Although a smaller number of steamers with
_ll
stook on board arrived at Liverpool during lest
from the United States and Canada than in the F ,
ceding week, the total arrivals showed an increase
both cattle and sheep. The arrivals of fresh ta,e'io
however, were slightly below those of the prevr° •
week, more especially with regard to mutton.. sbsa.
total shipments amounted to 1,982 cattle, 3,422 sue"
3,890 quarters of beef, and 150 carcases of mutton*