Runcorn Examiner. — 1893-01-21 (Runcorn, Cheshire, England)

SCENES IN THE CAPITAL OF SENEGAL.  Perhaps the place where one can see reost of the varied life of the capital of Senegal is on the Pont Faidherbe, between half-past five and half-past six of an evening. This bridge is more than a quarter of a mile in length, and, as already stated, is made of boats moored fore and aft. When a south-westerly swell comes up from the 'mouth of the river, the bridge sways from one side to the other with a short quick movement, making it difficult for persons not accustomed to board-ship to keep their footing, .and sometimes causing native children to suffer from real-demer. When, however, the wind is in any other direction the bridge is perfectly steady, and after the heat. of the day one can sit in the recesses made for the purpose and enjoy a little fresh air while watching the passers-by. There is sure to be a Moorish caravan. consisting perhaps of half-a-dozen camels, coming in with heavy burdens from the interior, the tail of one animal tied by a light cord to a ring in the nose of the succeeding one, the procession headed by a single Moor, with his short lithe step, holding' the cord attached to the foremost camel. Some four or five others walk by the side or the end of the caravan, Then ccme a batch of young girls returning from washing clothes at some roadside well, where the water is cleaner though perhaps more brackish than the river water. The clothes are contained in large calabashes, carried on the head, and steadied with one or both uplifted arms. In spite of the distance they have walked, and the ft.tigue of maintaining their arms in that elevated position, they seem cheerful enough, laughing and chatting' they move ,along, though the burden they carry prevtuts them from turning their head to right or left. Here pass, too, plenty of Jeloff linen, laughing and talking at the top of their voices as they walk along at a swinging pace, brandishing their heavy walking sticks, while their long white robes flap out behind them under the impulse of the strong evening breeze. Much more slowly approach some half-dozen Joloff women who have been attending a festivity at Sor, and are decked out in their most gorgeous attire. They walk abreast, and take possession of the bridge, looking with undisguised coutempt on the quiet-Coloured garments of the Moorish women whom they meet. Soon a boy of 12, belonging to th 6 poorer class, and wearing only the scantiest of loin cloths, staggers past under the weight of a freshly killed sheep from the slaughtering ground on the farther side of the river. Senegal sheep are horned and small, hilt they are too heavy for a young lad, and the carcase with its gaping throat seems likely to drive the small black head which carries it down between the slender unformed shoulders.—From "Blackwood's Magazine."  QUITE TRUBI • Sufferers from Gravel, Lumbago. Piles, Pains in the Back, Dropsy, Wind and Water Complaints. Diseases of Kidneys, Bladder, Urinary Organs, Stone, Gleet, Stricture, Sciatica, Rheumatism, and Gout, will find a positive cure in Holdroyd's Gravel Pills. Try a small box, and If not satisfied your money will be returned. Prise is 1/d. Of all chemists, or post free for 12 stamps from OLDROYD'S Medical Hall, Cleckheaton, Yorks. Don't be put off. If you cannot get them write to the Proprietor, and a box will be sent next post.—Advt. John Shaw Truman, who stated that he was a native of Stockport, was arrested on Tuesday at Matlock on suspicion of murdering Mrs. Pearcey at Bromsgrove. It is stated that the axe with which the crime was cornrutted was stolen from a building in course of alteration I at Birmingham. ADvicE TO