The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-10-07

the ceremony.
When lord Drucs took over the titles. honors.
and estates OF this MArauisate OF Ailesbury on the
death OF his. ohildle-s nephew, the Costcr
Marquis" he found many valuable heiricoms
mtssina. Thereupon he spent money lavishly
In advertising aud employed several detectives.
The result IL now announced. Most OF the
property has been traced. The heirloous arc In
the hands Of various people. including pawn
brokers, collectors, and dlsrrputable women.
The late Marquis, II seems. had treated them as
ayailable assets aud distributed them freely
among his friends and haueers-on. male and 70.
male, the majority OF whom pledged or cold
them speedily for cash. Some OF the present
posssssors have readily agreed 10 return the
treasures on reasonable terms. Others have put
fancy prices upon them, and q few have refused
to part with them on any consideration. Law
suits will therefore be necessary. and the re-
calcitrant holders will have to prove how they
obtained the hcirlooms, what they paid for
them, and also show that the purchases were
made In the open market. Their stories promise
10 be extremely Interesting.
Some Of the leading members OF the defnnct
Imperial Federation League are preparing for
the active propaganda OF its principles. hut on
different lines. r. II proposed to divide London
aud other large cities Into small areas. In each
of which lecturers shall labor regularly. taking
imperial unity as their text. The new pro-
gramme Is not SO ambitious as the old one, but
Is not likely TO prove moro successful, the
masses being still suspicious that imperial
federationism Is merely Toryism In disguise.
Tho corporation at Cardiff, in pursuance of
the ambition 10 make that port a rival Of Liver
pool, have decided TO buy mp various docks and
lands, the present property Of the Marquis of
Butte and other private owners. The purchase
money Is s33, ooo, 900, and Cardiff believes she
can raise the money ut three per cent. on the
security of the borough taxes. This is one Of
the biggest deals Of the kind In recent years.
Lively agitation Ia proceeding in the Central
Meat Market here. which also supplies the prov
inces largely. over the proposal to sell American
meat by sample. The majority OF the statesmen
refuse TO have anything to do with such \ new
tangled system on the ground that II IL impossi-
ble TO apply Il to q pcrishable article like meat,
and the Markets COMMITTEES of the corporation
have been requested to prohibit II. The COM
mittee viii probably aocede to the salesmen's
wishes, at any rata until the completion of the
vast cold storage building about to be erected in
the ad;aosnt market by one Of the great dock
companies.
No utterauce of the London Times for a long
time has been 30 much enjoyed by Americans in
London IS that papers singing rebuke to-day
to English anti-lynobing busybod!es. 1t Is pecu-
liarly appropriate that the Governor of Alaba-
mas reply to the letter of the English Anti-lynch-
ing Society should appear In the same newspaper
with the report made to tho British Government
by Sir Robert Hamilton of his investigation into
the pitiable hardshlps OF the Inhabitants Of the
British island Of Dominica, In the West In
dies. The forms Of oppression inflicted by the
British colonial Government there are almost
incredible. The people Of the island are
impoverished at best. and barely able TO
keep soul and body together; but In lieu
Of the payment Of taxes the authorities
compel men. women. and children TO work at
road building. No exceptions are made, and
this leads Sir Robert mildly to to
the British Government that women who are
about TO become mothers should not be forced
to work upon the roads. Three examples of
women being delivered within q few hours of
doing their contribution TO the road tax are
given. When the revenues OF the island admit,
says the royal commissioner, women should DO
relieved OF contributing to this tax. either In
money or labor.
The antitoxin treatment for diphtheria 10
coming rapidly into favor in this country, and
the results are said to be most gratifying. Dur
ing the recent epidemic In Norfolk. for instance,
Of the patients treated In the ordinary way 80
per cent. died, but after q supply of a~ntitoxin
serum had been obtained the sufferers were in
oculated with IL and all recovered. 1t seems
certain that the new treatment has passed al
most beyond the experimental stage and Is des-
tined TO become universal. The demand for
serum far exceeds the supply here. The expe-
rience OF Vienna physicians this week tends TO
show that the use OF the new specific Is attended
with certain other dangers. Two cases are cited.
In one of which tracheotomy was necessary be-
fore the serum was administered. In both
cases high fever set In q few hours after the
new remedy was given, and the fate Of the pa
tients IL still uncertain, but all trace OF diphthe-
ria disappeared on the second day.
The news comes to-day hat the recent revolt
of ArmeniAns In Sassun will soon be followed
by the massacre of several thousand OF these
oppressed people by Turkish troops. Not being
able to suppress the instruction the Turkish
authorities have wreaked vengeance on the
Armenisns OF the Plain Of Mousch, bordering
on Sassun, and have reduced IL TO a desert
Fifteen thousand Of these peasants have emil
grated into the Caucasus in a fearful state OF
restitution. Part of those remaining have
betaken themselves 70 SAssun TO escape
the persecution of the Kurdish cav
airy. This step has decided the Turkish
authorities to take new measures. They have
built a bridge over the watercourse which sep
arates Sassun from Mousch To facilitate the
transport OF troops. but the Armenians have de-
stroyed the bridge. The Kurdish cavalry Is
considered insufficient TO repress the noun
AN'P0
and the mobilization has been effected OF a part
OF the Sixth Army Corps at birmingham. The
authorities intend TO surround Sassun with an
army with the aim OF discriminating the inhab-
itants either by famine or arms. As all other
parts OF Turkey are In peace, the Porte will be
able 10 concentrate its forces upon Sassun and
crush these few thousand men.
The performances OF the aluminium torpedo
boat recently completed by Ysrrow q Co. arc
st..slon, - A. Inav.. -.
The boat Is sixty feet long and nine and . quar-
ter feet beam. The weight OF the hull Is two
tons, which is half that OF a steel boat OF the
same size. The material used Is ninety-four per
cent. aluminium and six per cent. copper. A
speed Of twenty and . half knots has been OBJ
tanned, against seventeen knots from the same
class OF stsel boat. The advantage most EN-
phAslzed Is the absence OF vibration, which Il
declared 10 be not Apprecisbls for the 800 horse
power used. Tho saving in weight is OF much
importance in second class boats which are de-
gignad Tn be carried on larger battle shIDa. The