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SINKING OF THE CYNTHIA. fiarrativas of the Captain the Pilot. and BOME HEARTLESS SPE0TAT0E8. "Hie Polynesian at Quebecâ€" The Boene of the OoUiBion. A last (WedDcidky) ni^ht'i Montre&l despatch e»yi : Captain Taylor, who thau met hiH Qmt acoideut in '28 years of sea- fariag life, haa IcHt everything. " I called the Bhip'K crew to the mainmast," said the captain, " bat the Hienm and thb umoke and the spray Hying in all directions madu it difficult lu bear. Many followed me upon the mainmast, and when tbo vessel taroud the maiiimsHt was level with the water. I ran along thH mainmast and jamped for the shore. There were a number of per- â- ons on shore who ooald have helped, bat they did not even come dowc to the water's edge. I called upon them to man onu ot the boats sad come to oar help, bat they either did not underxtand or would not. OL'he I'olyneaian was damaged. I bad toe much tu do to look after myself and my boat to pay any attention to her. Tbe Polynesian strnok her on the starboard â€" ahe was almost in line with the shore too â€" And orusbed in oar blurn and tore away oor sides as if we bad struck an iceberg. One of the men was killed when he was coming up from below. lie was a ijaarter. master. When the collision occurred our foretopmast went by the board." TiiK iiuyr'ti hioiiv. Celestin Rronot, pilot on the Cynthia, gave the following aocuunt : This morning about half past t the I'olynesian was sighted coming down the river, the Cynthia â- t the time being nearly oppOKite the asylum at Longne i'ointe. The weather was ptrfectly clear and those on board were surprised to see tbo coarse of the I'olynpsian. Bhe was croesing the courae of theC'\ nthia, which was. according to marine lajr,kKcpin!4 the starboiird side of the river. When within fifty feet ot each other the I'olynesian blew her whistle to signal the other to take the opposito side of the chan nel. lirunet accordingly put her about and endeavored to oroen in front of the I'oly- nesian, but, seeing that it could not be done, gave orders " full speed astern." Before nhe had even stopped the Polynesian was down on her, striking her on the starboard bow. After the col - luion the i'ulynesian kept on her course, and as the Cynthia's furopit only was full ot water the captain decided to try and ran her ashorn and Ksve the oargo. The engines were accurdiugly started and tbo ship went on her way, but immediately the bow went down, causing the screw to project above water unil at the same tiinu she capsi/.ed on her side, booing tbero was no further chance of saving the vosael the oflicera and men took to the boats. wori.n NOT iiKi.i'. Komu of the sailors stated that the I'oly neaian af'.er btriking the Cynthia steamed ri^ht ahead. Thry claim that had she lo'vi-rtid her boats immediately, she could bav rtHjued thi! men who were drowned. Tb<'> complain bitterly of nunie fifteen men -^ bo stood on the shore, heard the cries "T the <lrowning, watcliwl lliu steamer go down and never put forth an effort to save, although they bud two or three boats. THE IShrECITON. At nbaut half past 11 o'clock tugs, upon whii li weru Harbor Kiigineer Kennedy, Captain Kliaw, I'urt Warden, (^aptain Kiley, A. lioycr, M.i'.l'., Captain Nolan, of the .McidcH, and Captain Taylor, visited the wreck aii'l having piiiii|)ed out the life boat had it taken away. The poeition of the vessel wan ascertained by sounding and the general opinion is that she is a total loeH anil not worth the trouble of trying to raise. Tbu only question will be to get the oargo out and the hull out of the way to kriip it from being rarried ilown by the io« in >he channel next winter, ibu harbor iiirtntiir and assistant engineer ascertained from the captain the position of the vosuel ill the river when ahe was struck by the Polynesian. There is a story that the latter vessel sounded two whihtles before she struck the Cynthia. There is a bond in the channel juxt there and each vessel would be likely u> try to avoid just what did happen, lip to 1 o'clock no bodiex had been rooovcreil. HI I. NT, OF TlIK COLLISION. Tliii c!oll sion occurred a little above liOngiie I'onite Church. The Cynthia, had alio been steered away from shore, wouM havu mil aground in slioal water, but the deep water runs in right under the bankn, which IH precipitous. Ai the channel here is a natural one and both deep and wiile there ia no obstruction to shipping, there being plenty of room outside the ('vnthia's hull. Capt. Nelson, of the K .V O. steamer (.iiiebec, stateil that he met the I'olynesian about Capo Bt. Michel, near Varennes, this morning, and saw Huinething was wrong, as her bows were badly brceii and the plates bent and ripped. r^lit looked as if she hail run upon rooks. Slu' was proceeding down stream very slowly, followed at a short distance by the UueniH Ayrcaii. Just below Longiie I'ointe Cliiirch they saw the lop of a mast sticking (lilt of the water on the north side of the rivir, about lUU yards from shore and abont iiiidwav bitwein the iihiirch and the nunnery. At tlrst they thought it was tlie roast of a yacht, but they saw a couple of ships' boats near by, apparently fast to tho davits, and knew that a steamer was lying in deep water, whiuli at that point runs dose into the bank. They passed a lot of floating cargo. The uhannel where the auoident happened ia in summer .HOO feiit wide and '27 feet deep, but to-day an expe rjencud pilot said it is fully r>0() feel in width with '27 feet of water. Tho Harbor Hoard will huld an iii>|niry into the cir- oumstaiicea. They have the power lu sus [lend either or both pilots, either temper arily or altogether, as they see lit. In the oase of tho captains they have no jnriidio tioii, as their certillcateH are granted by the iioard of Trade in l')iiglaud. It is likely an in(|airy will bo hold by the .Vdniirally (ioiirt, Qiiohoo, and thus evidence will be transiniiled to the Hoard of Trade. I''ureign (Xinipanies only are laterosti'd in tho insiir. ancu on tho Hieaiiier and cargo. The manifcut of the (Cynthia is light, tho cargo ooDsiating ot coal and pig Iron, shipped at Ulaagow. coTLD HOT nxre norrSD. Talking with shipping men as to whether the Polynesian ought not to have stood by the Cynthia and remlered what SKsistance she ooald, they said it waa utterly impos- sible. With the "way" on her, caoaed by the fall speed down stream, she could not have stopped, and even if she couM have stopped in a short distance she would have been enable to turn in the narrow channel ao as to get back to the scene ot the acci- dent. (.'il'TAINB ANn I'lUITU. Captain John Taylor, ot the Cynthia, is a Hcotobman, about 10 years ot age, and has been with the Donaldson Line nearly all his life. Captain Uugh Wylie, of the Polynesian, is a brother of Captain Wylie, who waa formerly Commodore ot the Allan Line. Pilot Celesiin Branet,of theCyntbia, is 4G years of age and has held his certificate sioco January lUth, 1878. Loaia Z.Bouille, pilot of the Polyneaian, is 40 years of age and has held his certificate since February '28lb, 1872. Both men are apoken of aa careful and sober. TlIK KINKEN STEAMZn. The Cynthia waa bailt on the Clyde in 1880, by U. iSc W. Uenderaon, Glasgow, for her owners, the Messrs. Donaldson Bros., of the same city, and is one of a line of five itiainers built for the Glasgow and Canada trade, having Montreal for their hoad- i|uarters in the latter. She is classed at Lloyds as " A 1." Iler registered tonnage is 1.400 ; gross, '2,152 tons ; length, :S2'J feet ; breadth, .'<C feet, with a depth of hold of 25 feet. The well known shipping firm of Keford A Co. are her agenti,in Montreal. Captain Wylie, when seen by a reporter did not wish to make an extended state meni, as all would be told when the oflicial luvestigation into the collision was held. lie said,ho wever,that upon meeting the Cynthia he blew bis whistle twice and backed bis hip. He was on tho right side so much so that he could go no further. TheCyuthia tried to croi<s his bsws, and that was tbo cause ot the collision. At the time of the accident Capt. Wylie, first otlicer and the pilot wore on tbo bridge, and all who were on deck at the time on board tho Poly- nesian stated that they did their best to avert tbe collision. The passengers on board the I'olynesian wore in bed when the collision took place, and although they hurried on deck when the crash occurred there was very little confusion. Bo perfect was the discipline that as scon as the two \essels struck each member of the crew went to bis alloted post without a word of command. Both ofiicers and crew of the Allan steamer ex- pressed great regret when they were told uf the loss of life on boar<l the Cynthia, ar they believed that all of the men on the latter bad been as fortunate in escaping from the sunken steamer as the men in their forecastle had been from getting crushed. The report sent on from Montreal stated that eight men lost thtir lives on the Cynthia, but this number has been reduced by at least one. James l.,ow, <|uarter- master ot the ill fated steamer, escaped death and got on board the Polyneaian in a most miraculous manner. He states that he was relieved from the wheel shortly before 4 o'clock. Ho went into the fore castle and drank his coffee. Ho then went to his berth to get his pi|)e and tubaoco. While he was looking for the latter the crash came and all the men in the fore- castle maile an efTort to get up the stairs to the deck. Low did not like to lose his tobacco and kept looking tor it, when the ships closed for a second time. He then crept through the gap in his own vessel into that made in the Tolynesian and thus saved his life, lie states that the ('ynthia's crow consisted ot Mi men besides four stow aways (acrobats) who wore making their way to Chicago, but one ot the poor fellows was drowned. A NAVAL HEBO. Honors Upon Honon Heap«d OapUin Mnrrell, Unon HI.S Tim ciiiuAdo AitvLua lio» nil Intniie liiMlllutloii ^\an Ituii by I'olltlrnI llceli rs. A Chicago ilespatcb saya : In the Insaiio Asylum investigations on Thursday l>r. Clevenger teetitiod that the attend ants were mainly roughs and toughs, and that Dr. Kiernan is utterly iinablo to prevent brutality. The witness said that in Htato institutions tho expense was abont {H per capita per inontli, while in Cook connty it waa at least ^12. Cook county had paid as high as $6U a month per capita. Most ot tho ei|>enso was for whiskey. With l.oOO patients iu Kankakee the li<|Uor hills amounted to 1*'200 or *:iOO a year. Hero with a community of never over liUO people the bills amounted to 9;*, 000 to 94,000. The exoeesivo cost waa largely due to stealings. Hats, mice and nil kinds of vermin aboandod at the asylum Dr. Kiernan tried for a month to get lino tooth combs, but theConnty Hoard (X)nld not spare the money from the whiii key bills. The witness said Dr. Kiernan himself was incapable of cruelty. The wit neaa had been told there waa an attetulant taking down everything Kiernan did to report to his political enemies. Th» World Horm. A Woostrr, t>., despatch says: I'robably tho first woman ever licensed to perform tho marriage ciTeniony has just been granted papers conveying that authority from therrohato Court ot this county. The lady ia tho Hev. Mrs. Kllen UnnKle, the wife of a wull-known farmer residing in the iiorlhweHlern ^lart of the county, fihe ia a regularly ordained minister of tho I'nited Hrothron denomination. CHEW NOT FORGO riEN. A last (b'riday) night's London cable says : The banking account ot Captain MurroU, commander ot the Missoori, who on the morning ot April ilih rescued T.iO emigrants from the sinking Danmark in mid -Atlantic, under circumstances of great peril, and at immeaee personal and com- mercial risk, mudt today pressnt a much more healthy api>earaDce than it did two months ago. Hia heroic act has been recognized in three countries in a princely manner, and preeents in gold and kind and titular honors have been lavished upon him. The city of London was yesterday after- noon enthusiastic in his honor, while ban 'juets and testimunials await him ia Col- chester and Cardiff, and there ia a strong probability that tbo freedom of London will be presented to him. Uis reception in London yesterday eclipsed all previous festi- vities in his honor. The soene inside the Mansion House was an unusaally brilliant one, and when Captain Murrell entered in company with the Lord Mayor the band struck up ' See the Conquering Hero Comes." At the same time the entire audience rose en mane, and shouted and harrabed antil the civic walla rang, and completely drowned the maaic. Men waved their hata and women tlourished umbrellas and bandkercbiefa, and it was some miouttb before silence waa restored. All this time Capt. Murrell stood blushing and bowing, and the Lord Mayor en. couraged a prolongation of the ovation by leading it a mint t a later. The applause waa resamed when tho oQioera cf the Missouri joined their chief on the platform. '1 he speeches v.-ero of a most laudatory character, and replete with references to tho nobility ot nature, the Britiah pluck and the great humanity ot the heroic cap- tain, and every sjch reference brought the people to their feet with storms ot applause. The proceedings commenced by the Lord Mayor calling upon the band to play " Hearts ot Oak." Mr. W. Connolly, Secretary ot the Testi- monial Committee, described Capt. Mar- roll's reception in America, and organizing a fund to utt him in England. One thou sand and fifty pounds bad been paid or promised, and the lit>t was still open. Mr. Cciinolly caid it had been decided to give each member of the crew two months' pay and each cfficer a gold watch and two months' pay, and the balance, which it was hoped would reajh iliiM. to the captain himself. In spite of all the honors which are being heaped !ipon bim, the captain re- mained an honest, simple hearted English- man. He concluded his enumeration of the honors past and prospective arranged for Capt. Murrell, by snuouocing that when that cDicer returned to the I'nited States he was to be presented to the President at Washington. Alter a speech from the Lord Mayor, in whi:h he paid a bi^h tribute to tbo captain, the otiicers and i^rew of the Missouri, ho presented ('apt. Murrell with a silver salver, and each otlicer with a ^old medal and a chri|uo tor two months' salary. When Capt. Mnrrell rose to respond the whole audience rcse at the same lime, and cheered vociferously for several min- utes. He said that it was with a very high sense of gratitude that he and his crew wero present, and he thanked the meeting for the cordial rucefilion that had been ac- corded them. The gratitude of the people they were the nieanaof saving was sullioient for Bim Bill his crew without any further recomi>ense. He spoke of tho responsibility he lelt when throwing over tho cargo, but said bu conclu Ud that merchandise waii nothing when compared to human life, a sentiinent that was loudly cheered. The Danish Minister, M. do I'ulbe, rx pressed the gratitude of bis countrymen, from the palace to the ooltage, from the king to the peasant, to Captain Murrell and his bravo crew. lien New, thi' American Consul, added words of welcome, and the Lord Mayor explained that tho American Minister would have bieii prudent, but until ho was pre- sented to tho (^ueen he had no oflicial status, (â- en. New said the appreciation of true heroism was common to the people ot all climes, and especially to the people ot Old England, America, and perhaps in no less degree of the people ot Denmark, ('aptaiu Murrell's action would stand out conspicu- ous as a great tttort cf true seamanship and gallantry, (ien New then gave tho popular commander chi',|uea for *2.6lX), and Capt. Murrell, havii r; broken the fastening of the sealed letter, tlie Lord Mayor read a letter from the Chancellor of tho Uerman Empire highly eulogi/ing Capl. Murrell, after which the proceedings terminated. OVER AN EMBANKMENT. Forty-fire Pauengers Bon in a Railway Accident ON THK ST. IX)UI8 & SSN FBAMCISCO. A last (Friday) night's Bt. Louis d(s. patch says : 'Ibe weat-boimd train on the Bt- Louis ic Ban Francisco Kail- road, which left Bt. Loais last night at 8 15, was wrecked three miles from .Sullivan, Mo. Not a passenger escaped anhurt, and 45 are known to have been aerioasly iojared, though no deaths are reported. Tnetiain was ranoing at a high rate of speed when saddenly, witboni warning, the track gave way and the loco motive, baggage car and five coaches went over the embankment. The trainmen and those who were only slightly injured at once set to work to prevent the additional horror ot lire, in which they aacceeded. They then turned their attention to the more antortunate injured and in a short time 45 paaaengers, all badly hart, had been releaaed from the debris. A tem- porary hospital was improvised at Boili- van, and the moat seriously injured were taken there, while others were brought to St. Louis on the relief train, which was hurried to the ecene ot disaster. It was 11.25 when the accident occurred. The train was travelling at highspeed, and most ot the passengers had already gone to sleep, while the tew remaining awake were about to do so. There is a curve in the road three miles west of Sullivan, and when that point waa reached a sadden jolt and jar waa felt all over the train, and people in the rear cars ooald hear the forward coaches ratthng over the ties and the crashing noises ot cars being demolished. .V creek ia crosacd by the road at that point and there ia a steep embankment thirty feet high. Moat of the passengers thought the train was going through a bridge, and a feeling of botror chilled their ticod. In an instant all the coaches except the two sleeping cars hsd been thrown from the rails. People were thrown about in the cars in all directions, and some of them were thrown through the windows and down the embankment. Tb? train proper was made up of a mail car, aa express oar, baggage car, a smoker, a ladies' coach, a reclin- ing chair car and two Pullman sleepers. Back cf these sleepers were hitched five empty coaches, which bad been picked up St a way station. The front truck of the first sleeper jamped the track, but the rest of the car remained and the rear slee|>«r and empty coaches behind it never left the track. Fortunately, there was no fire in the cars and the jolt extinguished the lights immediately. The explanation given of the accident by the traiiiuien was that the spikes and fishplates bad been removed from tho rails at the curve, just leaving the rail loose on the ties. The forward portion of the locomotive passed the place all right, but the tender jumptd the track and waa thrown part nf the way down the embank- ment. Who removed the spikes and plates is not known, bat the supposition is that it was the work of train robber*. The rail- road clTiciala claim it is a clear case of train wrecking. On the train was a large body of physicians reitirniDg from Springfield, where the National ( onvention is being held, and they rendered valuable assistance in oaring for the iojnred. THE OHICAQO MYSTERY. Dr. Onmin'i Body Found Latt Evening in a Sewer, GBBAT KXCITKIIKMT I2f CHICAGO. A last (Wednesday) night's Chicago de- spatch says : The dead body of Dr. P. H. Cronin, the Irish American who strangely disappeared from bis borne in Chicago two weeks ago, was found this evening some distance north of the ciiy in a sewer on Evanslon avenue. A bloody towel was wrapped about the head. The rest ot the body waa stark naked. A Catholic emblem which the doctor wore next bis ekio, sus- pended at bis ceck, was untoached. On the dead man'a head were a dozen deep cots, which bad severed the acalp and in- dented the skoll. It is the opinion of the police that Cronin was murdered by some man who could not bring himself to disturb a Catholic trinket. Laborers in the employ ot the Lakeview subarban Government have beea cleaning the ditches along Evanston avenue daring the week. Today as they ne&red a oatch batin they noticed a strong smell of putrifying tlesh, and pried off the top of (be basin and cmcovered the body. It had apparently been hastily pitched into the l^in, for the bead was underneath and the feet and legs were up in theopenicg. The place where the corpse waa discovered is about three hundred yards from the station of the Chicago cV Evanston branch ot the Chicago, Milwaukee .V Bt. Paul Kailrcad. It ia bui two or three blocks frcm the lake and nearly a mile north ot where the blocd- atained trunk was foand the day after Croniu's disappearance. It eeems re- markable that it waa not sooner discovered, for the Lakeview police started to search all the catcbbaains in the suburb the week after the trunk was found. Old Maxwell, of Lakeview, who was one of the searching committee, aaid the searchers worked five or aix days, bat atcpped a few blocks from the basin in which the body waa found. The body was taken to the morgue and Cronin s friends were notified, and before midnight at least forty ot them had identi- fied the body. Among these were L^r. Brandt, President of the Cook County Hospital ataff, and Cronin's dentist. Dr. Brauct'a examination ahowed over the left temple a cut over f jur inches long through the acalp, and into the skall over the left pinnacle bone a cut one and a half inches long, which also marked the skall ; also a cat one and a half inchea long over the frontal bone and at the junction ot the left parietal a cut three inches long. A great hubbub waa caoaed in the aaburb over tho tindiog ot the corpse. The police had hard work to keep back the crowd who tried to enter the morgue to see the re- mains. The tnmalt continued far into the night. Wcodru:T. or Black, the prisoner, who confessed to having helped carry cff a trunk containing a corisa from a barn the night cf Cronin's disappearance, manifested no discomposure wLen told that the body of Cronin was found. He talked freely, bat would not go outside the story he originally told. A DKACO!«'8 KLOfEMENT. P Wii.iiAvt Koi.i UT-, :\i. iv, F.n. (' the University nf London, Eng., says : " Passiva congestion of the kidneys may be present, in which tho urine contains not a trace of albumen, while the syni|itoiiiH of intense venous congestion, dropsy, orlhop iiiia and pulsating jugulars are priscni. The uriiin beooniea uraiity, high colored and dense." Warner'a Bate (^iire haa cured thoiisanilsof thiuii syin|itoms, often called diseases, by putting tho kidneys in a healthy condition. In a new bonk upon " Ainerioaniama " Boino of the less fainiii«r are : Hibibles for drinkables, bohn for a crib or translation, balditiide for a state of baldnees; to deacon, or to place tine fruit on top, pari|iiet, or the pit of a theatre from its mouaio floor; pi/.'.aro for \>\ti/,.\. ekiilduggery, wire pull ing ; traiiipoou, to wander aimlessly daisy, fur anything first rate. and 1HK hASItlAN l>lSfl'TV. Fniloetil Drafted l>«all»B WItll the IJUetftluUH Ht IsHiie. A Hi-rlin caMo sa)s: Sir IMward Malet, Mr. Kasson and Herr Uolstein, as a Com- inittee of Kevision, completed today a draft of a proloool concerning Samoan <|iiisiioiis. It oontaina clauses relating to tlie municipal government of Apia, the c>>aling ports held by tho Poweis, the i.,and ('oininission and the autonomy of the Samoan (iovernment, tho text of which has already been cabled to Washington and approved by Mr. HIaine. The remaining elausis, dt lining the tariff ot Samoa, the t'onslituiion of the native Uovernineiil, and the linnlation of the (iennaii claims for iiuleiiuiity from tho natives, have been fraiiuid in coiisunanue with itisiructions from Mr. HIaiiie, who is ia daily cable cen- tal t with the Commission. Nothing, theto- fore, oii,{hl, ill the opinion of the delegates, to pri'Vtint the winding up of tho Cun- feniu'o on Tneaday, when tho businesa is expected to be liniiltHi to the exchange of signature agreements. lie Wiilllil Not Kefuae. " Let 119 not waste our time," yelled the temperance lecturer, " let us not waste our time ill dealing with the Hiiiall saloons and urogshops. Lot us go lo the fountain head. l.cl us go to the brewery, my friends." "All right," ohimed in an old soaker from a back seat. " lin with you." â€" .liii-rii'ii. Lady Sianloy haa propt-sed that a non- sectarian childreii's hospital be istablished in Ottawa. "I AM >Or UKAU !" Kxclalinril u Youof Lwly au Uuur Itefuro tbe Time eet fur tier Burial. A Boston despatch -lys: "1 am not dead !" That was the murmured exclama- tion which came to day from the lips of Miss Kate Patten, the pretty young daugh- ter of Enos Patten, of No. 14 Oak Grove terrace, yesterday afternoon. Sure enough. Miss Patten was not dead, thoagh if she htdn't said so herself just then an under t tker would have been at work on her in tie course of an hour. She had been sick since Thursday. The family physician (lid her diseass waa diphtheria, and a col- league whom be had called in agreed with bim. Both had pronounced life extinct aud were turning to have tbe room when they were startletl by the voice from the bed. They returned, aii.l the fair sufferer waa made aa comfortable aa pcsai. ble and the physicians took their leave for the night. A few hours later they were again summoned to her bedside and she was again pronounced dead. This lime there could be no mistake. Tho heart was silent, the ja» had fallen and there could bo no rallying. But contrary, however, to the expectations of the doctors, and with- out any asjistauco from them (for they jusidored it entirely useless). Miss Tatteu an hour later completely revived and em- erged from her trauce-liko sleep as btfore, only iu a more prouoauced manner. She became talkative and showed every desire to tarry in this world a while longer. Miss Tatten had charge bi'fore her illness cf the restaurant in tbe I'ark S juare Kailroad station, and if no unfavorable syuiplons appear she will probably be back to work before many days. The Old Fellow »klr» Out TCItli .> Preltj TuiiDi: Ludj Hookkeeper aud Couiea tu Canada, A Hartford. Conn., despatch says : Canada has afforded refuge tor another enterprising citizen of the great Kepublic. This lime it is a highly respectable citizen cf advanced age, a deacon of the Congre- gational Charcb, and his prettv bat un- scrupulous lady bookkeeper. Winter and Spring have gene oft together, to tbe scandal of the entire gocd Stale of Con- necticut. Deacon .\sher P. Smith resided in Lebanon, and did the largeat general produ-'« business in the State, his daily receipt! cf flour averaging from tour to five carlcajs. He ia the father cf alar e family, and is also a grandfather, being 70 years ot age. Ho is a brother of tbe notevl Roswell P. Smith, of the c'l'nluri/ Magazine Com- pany. New Vork, a millionaire. Deacon Smith two ye«ra ago took into bis employ, as assistant cashier. Miss Josophir.e King, a pretty brunette, aged 21 years. She proved herself such au excellent hand at figures that she waa made oonndential book- keeper. Their relations soon t>rgan to attract attention. Miss King's people were moat respectable, but she seemed determined to completely captivate her aged employer, and succeeded. They were finally discovered in a rather embarrassing situation, which led to the pair taking tlighl to avoid ridicule. Mr. Smith called in all the pay- ments hecoald. mortgaged every Ihiui;, and, after borrowing a large sum, started a few days since for Montreal, in the vioimty of which he aud his paramour are now locateil. Ue took away with hiiu a large sura of money, the extent of which has not yet bsen discovered. Uis son has as^iumed charge of the deserted business and promises all the victimized creditors Klllisl uu the Hallway Trark. .\ Montreal despatch saya : Shortly after 10 yesterday morning a Canadian I'acifio Hallway ballast train was coming into Montreal, and when near tho new lacrosse grounds at Oreeu avenue. Cote St. .\utoiiie, three of the men jumpeil off while tho train was still travelling in order to save themselves a long walk back from the oily. Two of thoni alighted without injury, but the third, a young Preuchman named Joseph Fournier, '22 years cf age, alighted on a heap of ballast gravel by the side of the second hue of metals, and rolUvi over and over into the middle of the other track. At that moixent an inward passenger train oatne along and ran over the poor fellow before he could eseaiw. The train passed over his thighs, which were severed almcst at the hip joints, aud the boltoui part of his stomach was com pletely torn away. Nolwithaiauding bis terrible injnriea, he lived to be taken to the tieneral Hospital, but e\pir«tl almost im- mediately upon admission in great agony. Tho unfortunate man waa a native of Quebec, and liore a good character. He had ciily started work on Saturday last. full aeltletnent. with interest, insi.le a year. Deacon Smith's action has nearly broken his old wife's heart. -^ Kllletl Ht< Child. A Windsor despatch says : A great deal ot excitement ia caused in the township of Maidstjne by the trial of William John son, colored, for tho uuirder ol May, hia 2 year old alep-danghter. Oa Wt\iueaday Coroner Langloia opened the invitigatioa by calling Hester Johnsan, the wife cf the prisoner. She teatifie<l iti^t her husband treated her with great oraelty. fre>iuently beat her into insensibiliiy, and took a fiendish delight in dragging her about by the hair cf her head. On a recent cccasion ho look the ohild by the neck and |>ounded her head against a fence. The child never recovered oonaoiousuess. James Lee, jun., saw tho prisoner ill-treat the child by striking her head ie(ieatedly against the fence. Dr. Coventry, who jvrformed a Sost. mortem, testified that the child's eath was caused by blows on t!is head. Tho jury brought in a verditt of guilty, and Johnaou was brought here and lodged iu jail, to stand his trial at iho Pall Assizes. Marnum'n aift to a Church. Your uncle, Phineas T. Barnum, in timea long gone by, may have advertised his elephants, giants aud fat women -k little t^x> Dr. Wu. II. TiioMiscN, of the University of tho City of New York, saya :" The symp- toms of diseased kidneys will first appear j atrong, but we must forgive and forget, says in the extremely dilTercut organs of the \ au exchange. He has just given a Bridge- body. " Treat the ki.iueya and not the ; port church SU. (XX) iu cold cash, lifted it etTecta ot kidney disease, by using Wari^et's ' out of debt and himself high up iu the ad- Bato Cute. ' miration of hia people. t )