The Warrington & Mid-Cheshire Examiner. — 1893-01-21 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

SCENES IN THE CAPITAL OF SENEGAL.  Perhaps the place where one can see most 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 mal-denier. 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 he 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 card 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 as they move along, though the burden they carry prevents them from turning their head to right or left. Here pass, too, plenty of Jeloff men, 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 stronz 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 tiorgeous attire. They walk abreast, and take possession of the bridge, looking with undisguised cootempt on the quiet-coloured garments of the Moorish women whom they meet. Soon a boy of 12, belont:ing to the 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, but 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 TRUE! 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. Prig@ Is 11-d. Of all chemists, or post free for 12 stamps from HOLDRovn'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 seated 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 committed was stolen from a building in course of alteration at Birmingham.