The herald., 1897-09-05

The Castle clique at Dublin is so deter
mined to make political capital out of the
visit of the Duke and, Duchess Of York to
Ireland that the Lord Lieutenant, Earl
CadOgan, has been obliged to set his foot
down firmly to prevent it from being
turned into a Protestant ascendancy
demonstration, and he has ordered ex-
plunged several sentences, in this sense,
from addres sses sent to their Royal High
nesses by Orange societies.
DEAR BREAD
The failure of the potato, corn and hay
crops in most of the districts in Ireland
has resulted in the gloomiest outlook for
the winter. The Chairman of the Mich
aelstown Board of Guardians, at "a meet
ing held by that body on Thursday last,
declared Ireland is on the verge of a
great agricultural crisis and that num-
bers of rent payers would be compelled
to go to the workhouse.
The price of bread is slowly rising in
London, and the outlook for the winter is
OF the gloomiest kind.
The city requires 10000 quarters of for
eign wheat weekly, independent of flour,
and during August less than 35, 900 quar-
London's bread is made from English
flour, and the bakers assert that. with
flour at the present figure. loaf of bread
at 5h pence O1 centS) will send them
into bankruptcy.
The hop crop is below the average The
picking, which is in full swing, has pro-
duced the usual pauper invasion of Kent,
and has been marked by greater distress
than usual The warehouses and police
stations Of that county are filled, and
there have been several deaths from ex-
posure in the fields and, hedges during
the recent storms
A HALE OLD POPE
The Pope's attending physician de-
clares that Leo XIII. will see the twen-
tieth century. The announcement has
been decidedly unpleasant to the Papal
initiators of changes in Rome, who are
in complete state Of stagnation. One
Cardinal said this week: "If you want
to be correct in statements about the
Vatican you must say and impress upon
the people that the present complete
stagnation in everything initiative does
not project any change. No one. however,
wishes to undertake anything now, for if
real, great and radical change may ar
rive at any moment, and all fear to find
themselves the mainsprings of some en-
terprise which might be displeasing to
the new Pope"
LABOR TROUBLES
The strike in the engineering trades has
grown more serious within the past week.
1t has now extended to the various
trades connected with engineering. over
5000 molders, boiler makers, finishers,
etc., at Newcastle, Sheffield and, other
centers have received notices that their
services will not be required after this
week. Many of the firms affected de-
clare they are preparing to move their
establishments to the Continent, and
they add that the question Of eight hours
work per day is by no means the most
important thing involved in the dispute.
The strikers are opposed to the introduc-
ton of new machinery and are trying
artifcially to stop production.
In connection with the engineering
strike, the Employers Federation has is
sued a statement regarding the hours
of work in the case of engineers in Amer
lea, based on official statistics from the
wages are not higher and there are fewer
holidays.
Court circles are enjoying a 16-page
booklet, written entirely in cipher, by
minor royal parsonage, in which anus
ing stories and facts connected with the
inner life of members of the royal fam
lily are set out in the most unvarnished
manner. Most of the matter in this pub
lication concerns Emperor William of
Germany, and the writer asserts that
$500 persons are languishing in the Ger
man state prisons on charges of lese ma
jeste. The booklet is in great demand.
1t is said to be like pages from The Pick
wick Papers.
Paderewskl, while on his Polish estate
near that of the De Reszkes, has cut his
hair short and is practicing bicycle rid
ing.
MINOR MATTERS
Naval circles continue to make much of
the docking of the United States battle
ship Indiana at Halifax, and it is recon-
mended that the predicament must be
taken into account in estimating her
fighting power.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the American
iron master, has purchased Skibo Castle.
an estate which comprises $4,000 acres of
the best shooting and fishing district of
Sutherlandshire. Mr.. and Mrs Andrew
Carnegie with a party of friends, includ-
ing Ian Maclaren" CDR. John Watson),
have just completed long cruise among
the Hebrdes in the screw schooner yacht
Columbia.
While Queen Victoria was travelling
from Osborne to GAport during the
week on her way to Balmoral, her
majesty called Staff Captain w. B.
Goldsmith, commander of her y.lht to
the quarter deck, and in the presence of
the court and of the crew she conferred
upon him the honor of knighthood. The
affair was entirely spontaneous, and is
one of the few instances of knighthood
having been conferred by the queens
own initiative instead of a result of
political intrigue.
Miss Co Won Go-Mohawk, the Ameri-
can Indian actress who is entertaining
the east end patrons of the Drama Is
fast acquiring the professional craft of
her white sister She had undesired
notoriety thrust upon her this week by
a heroic feat of quenching an inclpient
fire at suburban theater.