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FUGLES H_ P01MIH&, Some Celebrated CUM Bcalled. Tke ellsa fnnirm\rr%T Wkl'k ll. >BllMaeil Overa dreel Tears Th* ir ._ a- ur William Pslsuer Wk* P|B4 I hrre Frrivu- Thr I ^ r. n in: anil Lamsen arv Pu/./!e in poisoning are to be found in great numbers in the criminal annals of all countries- No one, {or example, will over Uy the specter of Capt. I)onelian, which from the tune of !i:s '.rial 15 17HI to the pretend day lias peristeutly " revisited the glimpses of the moon" and shaken bit gory lock at every judge ami jury in < lirisiemlom before whom anybody )IM bean trie.l for mnnier by poisoning on circumstantial evidence. Im- panel a jury of the best lawyers to-day, read over all the evidence in the case juit as it wat recorded llr.' years ago, and there ia not the slightest earthly chance that they will be ablo to agree upon a verdict. Yet Capt. Donellan was choked to death by an English hangman over a century ago on th verdict of .1 jury of his fellow- men and a most abi judge (Buller). none of whom had the (lightest doubt of his guilt. Theie is an arisf -iti: ar<-:ra about this case. Burke, '.heaui .. -,i the famous book o( the peerage, included it in ai* book of famous trials connected with the British aristocr- acy. It was a family tragedy in high life. Sir Theodosius Bough'.on was a young man peeetii'd of a large landed estate. Ctpt Done!! Uoneilan, and if he was wronged he never now can be righted. CUZA FKSNINU. Another specter that will not he laid, but walks forever up and down the gloomy halls of Knglish justice, is the pathetic wraith of the young and beautiful Kliza Penning. She was but 11 years of *ge when she was sud- denly taken from the house in Chancery Ui.e, Ixmdon, where she was living as a domestic servant, and arrainged at the Old Bailey Court House on the charge of admin- istering poison to tbe family. No one died from the alleii.pt at poisoning, but at that time (1815) it was a 'Capital felony to admin- ister with intent to kill. The family bad undoubtedly been poisoned by eating of dumplings code by this hapless girl, but she had herself eaten ot the same dish and suffered in the same degree as the other members of the household. She had not mads the slightest attempt to remove the evidence of her guilt, it guilty she was. She had left the poison-bearing dish unwashed. It is hardly conceivable that, such being the evidence, she should have been convicted. But the Recorder of London who presided at the tr:al seemed to be very prejudiced against her. and charged the jury strongly for conviction. The only motive ascribed to her was that she bad had a slight quarrel with her mUtress, and had determined to poison tbe en lire family by way of revenge. After conviction petitions signed by thou- sands prayed .he mercy of the King but the Recorder fiercely fought the movement for pardon. The girl's master relented, and would have signed the petition for a par- was his brother-in-law and heir don, but the Recorder persuaded him not apparent to the large estate. Al the tin:: to do so. New evidence wae discovered Sir Theedosivs died Capt. Donellan was after tho trial, and before the execution, living with him ia his country house and I which made it all but certain that she was occupied adjoining apartments. The young I innocent. Sir .Samuel Romilly records the the first social circles of London. Ihe doctora were obliged to admit on their oath that there was no trace of strychnia found in the body of Cook, and the beet legal opinion of the country eipected his acquit- tal. While the jury were out of court de- lilxratmg on their verdict, Palmer was so confident that the chain of circumstances roved against him was incomplete that he tossed over a paper to his counsel, on which be had jauntily written : "There will be a verdict of not guilty. ' The jury convicted him vert he I'ilmer still believed man, who was in delicate health, had sec: fact that an offer was made soon after the in the house ef to an apothecary shop for a draught of mediciue, which was sent back to him in an ordinary vial. This draught was ! poisoning took pis presumed to be a composition of rhubarb, j ly before labored un jalap and laen.ler water. At the time he j ment, and who in that state had private girl was convicted to prove that there was aster when the ho baa short- ital deraage- her a person i inder me that he would not be executed, and repeat- edly declared ia his condemned cell that he was going to his grave a murdered man. So steadfast did he seem to be in his assertion of innocence that public opinion wavered, as it always will do under circumstances, and there began to be a widespread anxiety lest an innocent man WM going to be de- prived of his life. Palmer was sent hack to Staffordshire to be executed, and in front of Stafford Jail ths largest concourse of (.pecta'-ors ever assembled in Kugland on a like occasion witneesed his but moments. Not lese than 50,< 100 people stood around his scaffold. The procession of death had reached the platform of the scaffold, and still Palmer had not confessed. But at the last moment he turned to the chaplain and admitted that he had not only poisoned Cook, but had also peuoned his wife and brother in the same manner. If hs had had two minutes more of the hardihood and bravado which had characterized him all through the trial and up to the very brink of eternity, William Palmer would bav joined the other specters that throw their weird shadows across the aimals of '.he courts and make us all tremble at the pos- sibility of doing a wrong that can never be righted on the strength of merely jircom- tan'.isJ evidence. TBKtTHVr w stwaM. r and ttrrr IH4e Mhn far riaj. Trrr. Hmkr. >! .r fr *d Wnere the soil is of a clayey nature, that is where the grain* of whicn it is ^ompoeed are very fine, and so hold considerable water between them by capillary attraction, the depth at mud may be greatly increased by the action of frost. The contained water expands is it freezes, pushing the panicles asunder nd destroy BIBY.KB AT TUt IITtkK. A Metre rOrer laale.ee' le a rite r We**. e>Mrat**l wlik Kvreecejr. astsl Torlerrd I* Drulh. A Fort laines, (la., despatch says: The whole country round about here is stirred up over the recent double tragedy, the hor- ror of which is unequalled in the history of this State, and is not surpassed by those at Paris, Tex. , and Texarkaua. A negro mur- derer was burned at the stake. Jefferson we, _ - - r*.. w* .11 a ai (*. t VUMMssB log all the adhesion which nad tend Burnett, son of Capt. Burnett, living about rrt-nnw n n s\mr\\M fr*ni tvif h ' h* r**flult LhsVt ! ._..J__.. I. _ . * grow up among them, with the result that aa the frost disappears, leaving the Uinture of the ground loose and so admitting the water readily, more copiously and to a great- er depth, it is even more incapable of bear- inn U P the wheels. To improve clay roads, then, they molt be effectually drained ~o that the least pos- sible water will remain in ir.em. Leep side iliwhes are necessary for such roads, and the narrower the roadway the more effective will be the drainage works. When we have out deep side ditches aad put the surface in proper form, we have done the beet we ran do fur clay roads. These ditchei should be from two to three feat deep, and in general tlie material ex- cavated from them may be used to ratae the surface of the road above the level of the adjacent land. The ditches should be about a foot wide at the bottom and have sufficient slope to their sides to prevent the soil from slipping into the ditch, and they should .lera eetlll. A writer in the April number of the took the draught other vials of similar size ' ly declared to a reputable witness, who was some of the more important facts in regard spperrnl to have been in his chamber. He , forthcoming, that he feared much that he * cholera and its causes that have been had only swallowed the drangnt a few should destroy himself and his family. M r. ' established : The comma bacilli, which are minutes when be was seueu with violent j Ciibsou, a reputable merchant of London, 'the active agents of infection, are both puns in the stomach, and was toon in con- | was reedy to testify '.hat some months pre' I parasitic anjaapropiiv.ic, the Utter word vulsion* and foaming at the month. He viously this mentally unbalanced person bad j nieaning that they are sometimes found expirH shortly afterwards without mak- J called upon him, with great agitation : "My growing on decayed vegetable matter. In ing any statement. Suspicion .if poisoning , dear (iibeon, for heaven's sake get me suitable media they develop rapidly. When placed in competition a-ita each other they succumb readily. They cn develop in at the death scene, and she immediately or- j myself and my wife. I must and ihfi ?' water, butasa rule they d > not long .ie eil .rything is the room, including the do it unless all means of destruction ai i ' *ist in impure water, though it is anils medicine vialu, to be left ur.touched. Capt. removed uut of my way ; therefore do, my { tn * 1 OM niany exceptions. Their natural Donel> persisted, however, in foing into gooi friend, have me put under some re- j borne is in the intestinal cnal of man : thsy tbe death chamber, and, against tbo express straint, something above tell* me I must do Wl " not develop in the digeitive tract of wishes and itrong protest* of the _ mother, it, and nn)c?s I am* prevented I ihall certain- animals. midway between ibis place and Kufanla. was murdered on Friday morning by a negro tramp, who struck bun on ths head with an aie. It was supposed that robbery was the r.\.^. t of the crime. Young Burnett was Sieep>Dg a country store, and he was killed while lying on a bed in the room back of the tore. The murderer was caught five miles from the scene of his crime, going in the direction of Fort Games. He had not left the public road. He shot twice at his pur- suers, but waseasily taken. He was bound with chains, hand and foot, and plaoed upon a horse which was led. He was then taken back to the store where he had killed Burnett, and where an immense crowd was waiting. The negro confessed the crime, and **id that he did the killing for robbery. At once preparations to bom him alive were besrun. A fenoe was torn down and the rails piled around a stump and the prisoner laid on top. The chains that bound him were fastened about the so that the water .nay have an | p u, o | | ogm . Kerosene was poured over him unobstructed flow through them to the .ad OTer Hie- pile of wood. The nigger natural water way*. Their office is both begged pitifully to be spared. Some one to cut off, in some degree, the water of the ( tmck a match, to the wood, and the flames soil vljacent to the road, especially in slop- I .,* up JO feet in the air. The crackling o< ing ground, and to allow that already ; in | the flames and the scream* of the dying the read bed to drain away. The first wretch preceded pistol shots, which soon office is quite an important ons, since if the rang out . The bulleU killed the writhing u - negro. Negroes did much of the labour in bringing fence rails for the fire. Negro men and women kept heaping up the wood on the body. The negro was unknown in the community He said his name was Kd. His in the roadbed which are cut off by ihi- side , T iotim was one of the best known young men mVuiUnan county, and belonged to an | old family. The Burnett homestead is one road bed is properly shaped most of the water falling upon it runs directly into the ditches, and the soil of the road bed re- : mains comparatively dry if the water of the ; adjacent soil is cut off. If there are springs ditches, they should be connected by unuer i was immediately awakened in the mind , secured or confined, for if I am left at kber- of the young man's mother, who was present ty I shall do some mischief ; I shall destroy pairi of such roads should not b made uy plough- They are never feund in the ing them up and shaping their surfaces, tract, the blood, liver, or any j Their surface* should be disturbed as little rgan except in the alimentary tract, aj possible and repairs should consist large- ly , Mid it is almcit cer- ! l n y S row * J develop more rapidly at the ' ly in filling- up the rnts with suitable mate- vi.. i uid held it to her now. .-'t the trial tain that it was his act for which Kliza Fen- temperature of the human body but one of rial, ss coal ai.d ashes or gravel, he testified that its odor was like that of ning was sent to hei death. The Recorder t ' ' " *' degrees leas is sufficient for their ' Sandy roads can be very much improved bitter :JmomJs. Several physicians had refused to entertain this proffered evidence, | r P"l development. At jO degrees their by a dressing of four or five inches l clay, te-ti.xd thaia glass which i.ad contained and the unfortunate girl, the only child of drains to the ditches. . Sandy roads require mmewhat different ; ,,f the finest aid-time houses now remaining treatment They also should be narrow j o f antebellum dnys. The family has Uroi those being best where the wheels are coo- ' there for many yean, fined to a single track way. No side ditches, or only very slight onse, are to be built. Th trees, buanes and gran are to be encouraged to grow as much as possible, and to assist by their roots in binding together the grains of sand. The grass should oe permitted to grow close to the wheel tracks, and between them and the track for the horses. R lr.1. ...llh.lrr. Whether there is any truth in it or not, the belief is older than Shakespeare'i time that the rats desert a doomed or sinking ship; and it may be remembered that IB the play of " The Temptest" Proapero lolls his daughter Miranda that they were placed riored out the vial from uhich Sir Tlico- ly do u '4p.Mr. Cibson communicate 1 this respiratory I'osinn had taken his last drink. Lady eonfcst!"n*o theMor raalrr.an'i f.'-.Uy, bu- *ber organ BoufLtrn immediately look up the rinsed , they left him at liberty , *nd it is almost cer- ' They grow i laurci vat -r, which is deadly poisou, would, respectable parents, who were thensti'l hv after rmvog, give an o-lor like that of ing, was taken out one morning is April, Utter almonds. This was the nearest ap- i 1813. and hanged in front of Newgate. As ptoa:S t> evidence that w.ts offered to the I the door was reached that opened upon the) jury to show that Sir Theodi-sinshsxi in fact ' scaffold the clergyman of the jail mads a taken a drink e. the deadly laurel water. | last effort to extort a confession, but she Sir . : ol.i ifnaccr was the men eminent replied ; Before tbe just and Alo-.ighty ssBglilh physician of the time, and he was a ; tJod, and by the faith of the holy sacrament itne<s at ihe trial. He swore most po-i- I have received, 1 am innocent of thenSenss tive'.y that t!:ere was no' King in the ur- ' of which I am charged." The chronicles of CUT T.nc-s attending the drain of Sir Tlieo- ; the time say that as she stood on the drop riptd development. At 50 degrees their growth ceases, though they are not killed. : They may be exposed to the freezing point or er n below it for nveral hours without kemfc killed. At above i:iu they are in variably killed. Exposure to a dry atmos phere from four to twenty-four hoars in- variably kills them. With ths proper sur- roundings they may lie dormant for months, but they possess a very low vi- tality as compared with other bacteria. A warm and moist climate is the one that meet fa von their deadly work on the hu- man frame. A most interesting fact is that doeiai, a* described uy tlie physicians who ' she looked as serene as an angel. The vast were .-ailed in at the tirr.r, to warrant the multitude who witnessed her death all but s*.-er''o:i that his dcv.h was caused by \ unanimously believed her innocent, and the i among the alkalies it is killed poisoning. All tha symptom* described air was filled wiui sobbings and groans as Hence it cannot live if directly actod on by wrr, l>r. Hunter atid, entirely consistent the drop fell. The people of London were the acid juices of the stomach. If fool be with the beUci that the yonrg man died of furious after her death, and the housn of ! perfectly digested any of the bacilli u may Clay roads are much benefited by a coning of sand or gravel. Vegetable matter, as havings, etc., may sometimes be uaed to advantage on clay roads. No railroad company would think of em- ! ploying to lay out, construct and maintain its roads men no more laniliar with the : principles involved than those ordinarily employed for this purpose on our wagon roads. The railroads rind it profitable uut only to employ trained men in the work of supervision, but so far as practicable to do the same with respect to ths foremen of apoplexy. The autopsy mitic en the body , the Crown 1'rosecutor had to be protected by Uic four pliyticir.ns n ho testified for the , from destruction. A tremendous demon- stration was made at her funeral : six young multitude who witnessed her death all but ; while the comma baciUua will flourish gangs of workmen, and they find that ex- by acids. ' perience and training make even the ordin- ary laborer more valuable than he would otherwise be. But in the care of wagno .ese principles are generally disra- prose:i:tion wii pronousccd by Sir John Hunter to h.v k . ocen to irregularly conduct- rd that its results could nut l;e trusted. TMK KVIl ! i: A-.AIVT ln'Ml I \. girls clad in whi'e led the way and 10,000 I nurn without having been digested in have contained are killed off. But when parded. Not only are the men to whom the stomach is feeble or overloaded a por- ! their care is committed generally ignorant lion of the food may pass into the duode- j "' tn proper method of doing the work, l>ui ' people followed her body in mourning tilsnce through the streets to tho cemetery of >t. How, tries, v.-rs CapU Donellan ennv:ctetl ? Ceorgc the Martyr, the u mdows being veil- In the first pUce it wu shor.-n that he had cd and draped in mourning, and every a strong motive for pr.isoning his brother- ! housetop thronged with weening people, in -law in the fa:t that lie wan th>> next hir Ycu will lind in the books of the great law- to a fine and valuable estate. N*xt it xtas yers on the philosophy of evidence some hewn that in his nv?n apartments, careful- expert opinions to the effect that Kli/a Fen- ly guarded under lock and l:iy, he had a ning was rightfully convicted but the private distillery, with all the appliances balance of probability ia entirely the other cecenary for the distillation of laurel water, way. An abundance of laurel leaves were growing It ia to the credit of human progress that in the gard n surrounding the house. The within recent years no man has been ex 5m .te still in which it was believed ecuted on evidence so inconclusive ss that c.v ly po-aon was prepare. I was found soon | on which Capt. Uoneilan and Kliza Kenning after th* ileiin of Sir Thsodonius covered ( were condemned. It is a comfortable re- with en:-.* iiTne, which would haxe effeo flection that in every case of conviction of lively ,:-Mvcd all traces of Isurel water, j murdtr by poison on circn.nstantial evi ansutu.nt; that further, U bad thrown every way of art examination of the ho.lv. ud ried out. Mrs. May brick hasbern comicfd Ihat it was not until forcible ST.I.MIS were , l>ut not hanged. Oarlyle \V. Harris has token to oic.-eome his objtctiooj that tho been convicted, hu' I'.'unol yet certain ! :\ i* cxiuunen and dissected. It was tht ho will bo executed. jiroted !so that for miny weeks before the .i.atii of his l>rfll.er-m -law he had' IsJsnV gswM ts) tell every one in the) *' poisoners must, forobvious reasons, bo r.eig'iuorhood that he f.-.i; ti! the young man troughl to justice, if at all, on circu:nitan would not live long, :',it he expected his tial evidence. \Vm. Palmer, tho young death at any mcu:?nt, v.-!:ii.^ co one el.io in S; a ,r,)r.lshiro doctor, mho poisoned three the |i3iily had ontoria.u-.l sjc'u fear*. His persons in order to collect the insurance refutal to respect T.vly I'Kju^Un's wi'i ! policies on their lives, would have easily an . liii riueing out of the visl in oppcsi- escaped punishment if the rule had been an tica to her 'earnest remonstrances was plied to bis case that a jury shall not find a tracts o aure water, j murtr y poison on circn.nstantial evi- ; any had be -n left in it , dencu within the p*st forty yean either the i ,ucvo.l tl-at Cxp'. Uouellan . condemned person has confessed his guilt cry po..<i- I cc-McIe in the ' or eise the death senl-nce has not been car- also held to be a most damaging fact. in rlurt, iv wm claimed by the Government that from first to last Capt. Uonellan ' c::r.i was tlioroughly iucon- siitcnt with i'U innocence, and that all t'ie facts of tho cat were explicable on the theory of his Rtiilt, while on no other hypo- thesis could they be satisfactorily explain- c-\ ; ind so upon the ti.v-iu of presumptions w.'hoi--'. any better proof tha'. poison of auy sort had been instrumental n: the death of stomach. If that portion contains any of the bacilli they find in the slightly alkaline juices of the upper bowels their appropriate nourishment, multiply with wonderful rt- pidity. and produce toe aymptoms of chol- era. From this statement of the case it is legitimate to infer that while care should be taken not to eat or drink anything that may be thought to contain cholera germs there is comparatively htrle danger if the stomach be not overloaded with more ma- terial than it can efficiently digest, the quantity varying with the individual and with the state nf health for the lime be:ng. As the comma bacillus the the time for which they are called upon to 1 perform this service is generally short. This year one body o' men have the roads in charge, next year another body will have them to care for. So thai what little ex- perience may have been gained will be loet, and there is no possibility of forming and carrying out any comprehensive plans for road improvement. {V. t,. Harbour, in New Knglaiid Farmer. sVwarv ef ttkaryrr*. Those who are arranging to ,itt<-nd the irld s fair, at Chicago, will do well to see that everything is done in a businesslike way and that no uncertainties are left open killed off l>> exposure to a temperature of | f or future arrangement. Otherwise they 131) degrees it u sure death to him to be Rubjected to the far greater heat of 'Jl'J, which is the boiling point of water under ordinary atmospheric pressure. Henc? it is easy to prevent him from entering the stnmsch while alive, either through tbe medium of food or drick. ivre very liable to share the fate of the Vicar of Wakorield's son Moses, who attended the tair after endlvss preparation and good ad- vice, .^nly to be swindled and fleeced at every point. Many who engage .juarters will arrive there to find that they have not where to lav their heads. Others will People who have weak digestive apparatus learn that prices have been rained and that should be careful to i:ie this ni-Acmtinn ' !.-.. _..u_: - .k_~.~. . .L~ man g'lilty of murder by poisoning unless there is direct evidence of the fact. I'.ilroer 1.4 famous in history as the first iu a loiiu line of modern poisoning doctors. He wasi f, culy about .14 years of p^e, but was much given to the race-cournc and iti incidental vice*. To procure money to maintain his dissolute life he poisoned his wife, hi.i brother, and tina'ly his friend, a Mr. Cook, for whose murder alone he wa3 tried, lie had employed strychnia, a fatal pre] sort hod been instrumental in the death of "*<1 employe.! strychnia, a fatal prepara- the young man than the recollection by one ' l ' on . which leaves no trace in the body of T. *. i.l . .1. - .- ,%i woman of the smell ol a rinsed out glass, this man was convicted an. I sent tn tho sivtTrM. In the ante-chamber of death, just before he was taken out to be banged, Capt. Donollan, iu the presence of the ch.rplain, who had given him the last con- solaticr.s of relicion, solei. inly declared that a* he was sborlfy to meet his l.od and as ryj hoped for forgiven??*, ho was about to ihe entirely inncccnt of thectime for which he was to suffer. Was he ii r.occnt, as he atrtrr'e.l under these awful circumstances, or wcs he guilty, as the jury also acting m tiie r oath. Mid as Mr. Justice liutler, also acting on hisoaih, ami one of the ablest and most nprigh: judges of hi* time, fully beliflvc.l .' Ths world will never know. Tli" hrg'.eat authorities on evidence from that day to UK* have been urging, some tli-' .!. w.i.ta-id others that it was cot a righteous conviction. I;. , while the best i judfRttnt is in!l divided on the quen.ie* l!i hrand of intumy an,! ignomini- ous Uch !> brcn fixed forever ujpou CapU the victim. By this precaution Palmer thorght that he had securely guarded him- eolf against detection and punishment. But when he was arrested and charged with the ofTsntc he betrayed r> much uervousness at every point of the proceedings that he gave tho jury good reason, by hid own Ix-havior clone, to believe that he was guilty. He tried to bril>e tho Coroner who held tho in- r)uesi{on Cook's body ; he offered ten pounds in money to a driver of a carriage in which the jar containing the contents of Cook's stomach was to be t.iken to the railroad depot on its way to London for analysis, on condition that lie would upset tho vehicle and break the jar. Yet on his trial, which took place in 1S.~>6, he showed tho greatest coolness. He chatted freely with the wardeus on his way to and from the court room and laughmgiy predicted hie own ac- ijuitul with tbo utmost eon ti dence. The >l Criminal Court room in London, in wh.ich.he was tried, was crowded with anaud icDce gathered ruaiuly from the nobility an. i should be careful to i:se this precaution whenever there is reuon to suspect tbe pres- ence of cholera. All others are compara- tively safe if th y will avoid loading their stomach at any time with more material than can bo d-gt-sted properly. It may be added that tho use of en.', I drinks tends to chill the stomach and thus interfere with the process of digestion, al.-o that the dan- ger is increased by taking in a fresh food while ihgestiou is in progress, for vrhieh reason the long-drawn-out menl is n-t to bo commended on the score of safety. aaaUa't TrcalT Ttikln; Fewer. The recent discussios) in diplomatic ami political circles over tho Franco Canadian treaty has directed wide-spread attention to Ihe extension of treaty -making powers to Canada. Mr. I. lads tone, speaking in the Home Rule debate, noted that the colonies are now making their own trade law*. In direct reference to Canada he said: "In the ease of Canada we have begun :o allow her, subject of course to Imperial control, to proscute her own substantial interests in connection with important foreign States." Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, in his reply to the Liberal leader, also referred to the matter of treaty. MIA king by British colonies. He declared that the former reservations in tho csse of Canada regarding diplomatic rela- tions had been found practically impossible to sustain. Continuing, Mr. Chamberlain now sai<'. :--"Canada now claims the right to be represented directly in all negotiations i-lecting her.'' Thess significant admissicn* indicate a most important concession se- cured by the Dominion. In proof of this, too, is quoted the presence of Sir John Thompson as arbitrator, Hon. Charles H. Tuppor as British *gent, Mr. Christopher K .dimso'i. ',' (.' ., M counsel, and Sir Charles Tupper in the Behring Sea arbitration tribunal. Cuuda, indeed, in regiplo.l now as being herself a treaty-making power. they mnst submit to the extortion or take ' chances oa sleeping out of door*. Numer- ous hotels have been advertised that exist only on the frail foundation of a speculative imagination : and those which have a ma- terial being arc so metamorphosed through tbo skill and imaginative genius of hire.) artists that they will never be recognised by the visiting guests who made their ar- rangements in advance. Kvcn the pamphlets bearing the marks of official sanction and approval have hotels advertised that no one in Chicago over saw or ever will see. Some ol.l rookery that is located in the heart of the city and is without claim to conveni- ence, comfort or Imauty, is pictured with charming surroundings, in nting shade trees, gay equipages, and handsome parks. There are hordes of wolves bent on fleecing the unwary, and then is no safety save in dealing through thoroughly trustworthy people. Chicago desires to properly enter- tain all comers ; but the Shrewd rascals ot the world who always operate where the most money is in sight nave arranged to reap a harvest in the breezy city. Those whf go there must do so with their, eyes open and their wits all in action. A correspondent wants to know wherein i differ with Mr. McCarthy as regards a j trade policy. We differ in this, that that ' gentleman believes a preferential tariff with Kngland is a possibility, where i-< we have nu Faith in any such thing, because we are assured that the majority of the people nf cireat Britain would not agree to it. But we are with Mr. McCarthy- heart and soul in his desire to bind ourselves and the mother country clover together. There is only one way to do that, namely, by abso- lute free trade between the two countries. In other words, our watch word issull as it was years ago, before Patrons of Industry or anybody else took, it up free trade with free trade country " A rotten carcass of r. boat not rifsrei. Nor lackje, sail, norinavt: the very rau Instmctlvatv hare quit it." It af peers 'hut may kinds of birds have a similar instinct witn regard to the cholera, and ia'view of a cholera scare the coming 1 season it would be well tor our citizens, as I as a matter of curiosity, if nothing else, to note tue domes of ths martins and sparrows if the dr-adod cholera shoui i succeed in getting a foothold on our shores. A writer in Notee and Queries" Tor December. 1800. says that when that malady appeared at Pert Louis in the Mauritius the martin uuitte i the town and did not return . and the jackdaws and sparrows left Malmo tn Sweden on the appearance of the oholera there in I <U. Maj. C. O. < 'reagh of ths SUth British regiment avers that he was present duting an unusually severe visitation of the cholera, in 1M6, ia the town Kurachee ia Sinde, ia which his respmenl lost in the space of 10 dayssbont .'40 men, and it was particularly remarked th*t the vultures, kites and other birds of prey entirely Jisap- peare-l almost simultaneously with the out- break of cholera, returning generally after the first few days, when the virulence of the disease began to abate. Maj. < reagh aiao mentions a singular circumstance, from which it would seem that the inhabitants of th tsea are by no means exempt from the visitation of the mysterious disease. On the second or third day after the appearance of the cholera, the bay to the south of Kura- chee was stnxred with myriads of dead tish which were left on the beach by the reced- ing tide. At high water the shores of the bay presented a most singular appearance, the waves for several yards from tho shore seeming to lie composed of an almost solid mass of dead tish, chiefly ef the sardine species, among which, however, there were not wanting others of considerably larger size, but no sharks were among them. This belief in the praecience of the birds is almost universal in India, and it is imputed to their power of div ing into the secrets of fnturitr It is the belief of the nativos that t bis powei is common to the kites and the lizards, and has been acknowledged by all sects in all ages. It is not impossible that there are many people in our large ciliej who would welcome the cholera in a mild form if by it* coming the English sparrow would go and continue " gone " for all time. By reducing the duty on binder twine the Dominion tiovernmenl has aimed a blow at t I.e. cordage combine, and by apply ing prison labor to the production of tho article the Ontario Government has second- ed its efforts. The American Cordage Trust, which has rami ticaUons in Canada, is a powerful irgainr.a'.ion. Its capital in now f-Jo.OOO.OOO, and the stock is favorably regarded Vy riuaucieis. The combine has succeeded in killing competition by bujmu up outside companies or driving them (ram the business. There are now forty iiin companies in the trust. The moit effective means it used to accomplish its purpose was by obtaining a corner on hemp. This harassed and Irove oat competitors, and finally gave the combine raw material at a very low figure. Thus it appears that corners vnd combines are almost synony- mous. Wheat is not the only article of food that is on the i ise, for recent reports indicate that sugar is also on the jump. Within the past few weeks there has been an advance m tbe Cana lian markets of Jc a pound, and the price has gone up simultaneously all over the world. Some weeks ago there was very little movement In sugars in Canada, Prices in Toronto and Montreal were Mow iiuotations of the wholesale trade in New York. Now the price of granulated sugar in New York is rather below the {notations for the refined product in Canada. The causes of this general advance are compara- ti -rely light supplies of raw sugars in Knr- ope, and the expectation that the Cuba crop will fall shoct of last season. In ease of a short crop m Cuba the United States) may have to draw upon Kuropean supplies of better sugar later m the season. " This iew is str*""Sfcened by the advances in the -*4 SBI raw sugar*.