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Flesherton Advance, 11 Nov 1897, p. 7

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L w .v> THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesttgg hcina Ab««t Otir Owa Covntry Orcat BriUIn, the Uaitcd 5 ates. and All Paru ol the Qtobt, Caademscd aad Assorted fsr Easy Rcadiaf. CANADA. The RoaBcll fire fund now amounts to $22,650. The G. T. R. will erect a new station at Merritcn Junction. Tlie Ontario AgricuUnTal College at Gnelph baa 150 students. The Ontario Legislature has been called to meet on Novemler 90. The new C. P. B. grain, elevator at Owen £«und has been completed. The Bank of Hamilton has purchase •d profwrty for an office In Winnipeg. An expedition will start from Mont- real fox the Rloadyke in a few weeks. A new issue of postage stamps will be placed on sale about December I. An Insolvency law will likely- be in- troidaced at the next session of Par- liament. John Callahan, an asylum patient at London, choked himself fatally while eatine his dinner. John Pollard, merchant of Windsor. Nfi.. who lost heavily in the recent fire has become insane. Mr. Ogilvie reports fresh discoveries of gold in the Klondike in creeks tri- butary to the Indian River. It is estimated that Prince Edward Coonty will have 190,000 barrels of ap- ples for export this year. It is expected that the Ottawa and New York railway will be open for traffic on the firat of December. The Ancient and RonoaraMe Artil- lery Company of Boston have aban- doned their trip t.o Halifax. Deputy Minister of Justice Newcomb reports that peace has bren restored at St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary. Ouelph has stient 98.000 in sidewalks aad t'.noooo in building*, principally private houses durinfc the i)a«t year. Six Wilfrid Laurier will accompany Sir Louis Dartes when the latter goes to attend the seal conference in Wash- ington next month. A deputation from Montreal on Wed- nesday urged open the Government the desirability of having Canada re- presented at the Paris Exposition. Sir Louix Davies. Minister of Marine and fisheries has purchased the resi- dence of Sir John Carlinir in Ottawa for eleven thousand dollars. Ferdinand Carrier*, the crank from Riroouski who expressed a desire to kill Sir Wilfrid Laurier has been de- clared insane and sent to an asylum. ttert l.pedham. aged It!, son of the (aremAA of the Withrow mines. South Uniaoke. N.S.. was caught in the marh- taery on Friday and killed instantly. The Bix-year-old son of a rancher named 'Rudd at We«t T.etbbridge Man. wjhile playing with a can shot and killei bis three-year-oM sister. The date ofthe ineetinir of the Dom- inton Parliamient has not yet heen fix- ed, but lA is expected thiut the open^ log will take place aliout the middle ef Jajnuary. It. is no«r considered likely that the Allan and' Dominica steamship lines will aJCcept the fiovermiient mail suh- »i^ aaid give a fortnightly service from 9t. John. A Federal Minister discussinc forest fires expressed his firm conviction that the starting of a fire in a forest should be made a ( rituinal offence, punishable by heavy penalties. Ji. H. Haycoi'k. a mining engineer, has obtained a patent for an apparatus by which minlTig may be carried on in frozen ground at «omparatively small expense. John Mclntyre, one of the Winis- or. N. S., men arrested on a c^rge of startin^r the fire which resulte:i in the dwtimc-ticm of that town, baa been commiLted for trial. An envelope marked "Conscience fioodle," and containing tl.O^O in Nova Scotia. New Brunswick and Ameri-an bills, has been received at the Finance Departaient at Ottawa. Ad agreen\e.nt has beKn entered into between ithe Ham.l>urg-,.\meriran Steamship Company and Ifae Grand Ttunk railway for a regular monthly •ervice i>etwePD Hamburg and Port- Ian.!, Me. Ho'n- H. 'R. Emmerson' Is VremierVcf New Brunawirk, ;i recoost ruction of the iLdvil Govenxment having l>een ef- fected On account of ill-health. Hon James Mitchell resi^new) the Premier- ship. ' ' It is stated that the Domititon Gov- erntaapi»t proposes next session to in- troduce legislation to increase the re- tiring allowance of Supreme Court judges from two-thirds to four-fifths of their salary. Several animals owfl»d near Ottawa were recently found to be sufft^rinlp from tuberculosis an<l on the authori- ty of the Minister of Agricalture it is stated that the disease also exists at the Experimental Farm. The Retail Merchants' Association of Ottawa has decided to ask the Legis- lature to radically change the present] auctioreering laws and uM the muni- cipaltiea throuj^hout Ontario will be asked to join in this appeal. As tiiere has been n« response to the call to Oinadian sculptors For designs for the statues of the Queen and the late Him. Alex:i.n*ler M.icken'ie, which are to b« placed on» Parlia- nent Hi.ll, the offer mny have* to \te thrown o(>en to British und foreign artists. I t ' : i • GBiEAT BRITAIN. Archbiiihop Machray, who has been 111 in England, continues to improve, and exi>ects to return to Canada after Christmas. The death is iinnoiunced in iLondon of Francis Tliirner Paigrave, the i>oet and eauayiat. Be was seventy-five years of age. Tlie Imperial War Office denies the report that the British Ooverment in- tends to piace two British regiments in British Columbia. Tbe later ahipmenis of Canadian fr'iii to England arrivtMl in good condition, with the excei^tion of the grapes, which showed a tendency to drop from their stems. The coroner's jury in the case of Ed- ward Langtry. husband of the actress has returned a verdict in London ol Beath • due to an effusion of blood up- on the brain, caosetd by a fall " A conference between representatives of the euiploiyers and delegates from tlie striking engineers in Britain has been practically arranged, the latter having agreed to with^iraw their de- mand for eight hours per day, which has been the great stumbling block in the w^ay of arriving at a settlement of tbe strike. UNITKD STATES. President McKinJey has issued his proclamation naming November 2&th as a day of national thanksgiviag. Five inmates of the county insane asylum at Pennring, 111 , have, it is asserted, been mauled to death by at- tendants. Canon Gore, who has been seriously ill in Buffalo, has sufficiently recover- ed to ena))ie him to leave New York on bis way honae to London. The American Public Hbalth Aasocia- tion, in aettsian in I-biladelphia, passed a reaulutiou approving of individual cups ia tbe celebration of the com- munion. The grand jury at Wilkeabarre, Fa , on Thursday returned true bUis for murder against Siwriff Martin and bis deputies for firing on und killing striking miners at Latimer, Fa. Henry George, the sini^le tax advo- cate, and one of the candidates for tbe Mayoralty of Greater New York died suddenly at his hotel on Friday morn- ing after addressing several meetings. He was fifty-eight years of age. Governor Atkinson of Georgi.t, in bis meeeage, condemns mob Law, and suggeasts. among other remedies, that the prisoners be armeti and allowed to use their weapons in their own de- fance. Two carloads of Canadian bides that had been smuggled into the United States from Caaa<da hve been seized in Boston This is tbe first, seizure of hides sinee the Dingley tariff law went into effect. Mr. Chauncey M. Depew, one of tbe presideui:^ o< the Ne>w Y'ork Central Railway, is decidedly of opinion that tbe wreck at Garri- son was caused by dynamite plac- ed upon the track with criminal intent. An alleged discovery of conspir- acy to murder Sheriff Martin bas been made at Wilkesliarre by Mar- tin's son Martin was in charge of the <ieputiea who shot down a nuanber ol tbe minen a short time ago. ( According to commercial summaries, furnished by the mercantile agencies of thin and Eh'adstreet, the condition of trade shows generally little if any ap- preciable change since the last re- turns. In different quarters the un- tuually mild weather ba^i acted as a de- terrent to the ordinary progress of trade, and tbe demand for certain lines o( seasonable guuds has >>een checked. I'here is no decided increase in any direction. The demand for iron and) steel continues good, as it is expected the cost of manufacture will increase shortly. There is a fair demand for woolen goods at steady prices, but cot- ton good.t are weak and stock large. The commercial failures in tbe I'nited t^tates for tbe week just> ended are 218» compared with 206 for tbe correspond- ing week a year ago. GENERAL Count Tolstoi, tbe Russian author. Is reporte<l to be dying It is currently reported that Prince Hobenlohe, tbe German Chancellor, has resigned. General Jamat is likely toi soicoeed (ieh Sausaier as commander-in-chief of the French aim;. Tbe King ot Siasn has orde-red a mem- ber of his staff to l>e executed for a lireacb of etiifuette. couauitted at Lis- bon. Sixteen tbouaund rifles from Hong Kong and Sh.inghai have been rei-eiv- ed by Philippine rebels in the weet ixxist of iLu.-.on. The report that General Castillo, the Cuban leader, has been killed in an en- gagement with the Sipanisb troops is confirmed. Over 12,000 people at Gifu, Japan, who were rendered homeless by the floods recently are now being sup- ported bj the Government. The Catholic mission at U'ue. Cochin China, reports that a disjtstrous ty- phoon swept over that part of tbe coun- try, on October '22. 'I'wo officials of the Nigata Bank, Ja- pan together with a broker in tbe Ni- gata Grain Exchange, have been ar- rested for embezzlement. Over 50 persons were killed and 80 injured in the stampede at Kbnieleffv Russia, on Sunday from a church. A cry 6f fire caused the panic. A fossil skeleton of an unknown ani- mal, larger than a rhinoceros, is re- (lorted at Athens to have l)een found in a coal mine at Kymi, Island of Eub- cea. News from Lomoiak, Japan, says that Mr. Landerhout, the Dutch Controller of the village of SisoUa, has been mur- dered by insurgents. There was hot fighting. Tbe results of the general election of meniljers of the Newfoundland As- sembly indicate that the Whiteway Government will have a much smaller majority in tbe new Assembly. Capt Sverdrup is making prepara- tions to go on a North Polar expe<H- tion. The Norwegian Government will allow him to use the Fram. and will give him twenty thousand kroner to refit the vessel. It is reported in Christiania that a whaling lx>at returniag from the Arc- tic sjiw Prof. An. I ice's balloon float- ing in the iwater near Spitzliergen. Brakmo, the Arctic explorer, propos- es to proceed to Prince Charles pro- montory to investigate tb* tmth of the story. An investigation in Athens reveals the sensational fact that the cartridges fitted to tbe torpedoes during the Tur- ko-Greek war were unprovided with percussion caps, and v»'ouid have been alisolutely useless. Prince George, who was commander of the torpedo flotilla ia being roundly attacked. TELESCOPE HATCHSIS FOR SHIPS. aa laveaUsa af aa •i* Sea Cantata Fraai Wkick Hach In BxpeciMl. Capt. G. A. Chaddock, F.B.G.S., a Liverpool navigator, of thirty years' experience in twth steam and sailing craft, has invented an appliance which ought to be of immense value to ship- owners and their crews all the world over in saving both life and property, Tbe present wooden hatches, laid on from above are easUy forced up by the inrush of water consequent upon a hole being knocked in the bottom of a vessel, tbe results teing that she rapidly tips and siaas. The telescopic iron batches, which constitute Capt. Chaddock'b invention, are so arrang- ed that tbe pressure of water from below would, in such a contingency, bind them more tightly in their places, precluding the possibility of tbe water rising above tbe first deck which forms a platform or horizontal bulkhead, preventing the ship from sinking and water from reaching the cargo from above. Tbe improvements give more effective ventilation to prevent cargo heating and sweating and are also capa- ble of being hermetically sealed, so as to neutralize fire, and. generally speak- ing, water-tight oompartments are doubled, the consequent seaworthi- ness of a vessel being vastly increased. Besides these essential advantages there are many others, as, for instance, more speedy manipulation and no risk of injury by careless handling; bad smells from cargo do not reach the passengers; tbe vessel would be a sal- vage appliance in herself in case of stranding, and last, but not least the batches are particularly suitable for deep-water ballast tanks. The practi- cal effect of Capt. Cbaddock's improv- ed hatches will be to multiply the wa- ter-tight divisions of a ship in propor- tion as ths number of decks are to bulkheads. Thus a ship with eight bulkheads and three decks would at present have only nine water-tight compartments with wooden hatches, but with the improved hatches and water-tight decks the same ship would have twenty-five compartments, an increase of sixteen extra comparl- mentii. Capt Chaddock's improve- ments have l«en submitted to the lead- ing shipowners, underwriters, marine engineers, and other practical men, tioth in Europe and the United States, and they have spoken of them in the highest terms. GSTiRIO'S BOLD ITBLDS. THE BEST IN THE WORLD AN» EASY OF ACCESS. A LONG WALK la rsaada't aakH-wn Lai<l-lt« Material Alexander McKay has returned tp New Denver from a three months' trip in the direction of the Klondike says the New Denver Ledger. U'is mission north was to examine some galena ledgee. He went in a came with an Indian guide from Wraugel to Tele- graph Creek thence Iv Lee* Lake, and down the Dees River 2M miles and up the Laird River. L'4) miles, where he found plenty of galena ledges from two to ten feet wide, carrying about aw ounces of silver to the ton. The formation is similar to that of the Slocan and McKay thinks it will be profitable mining when the railroad tai"!* the region. Upon the return trip he hal to walk 326 mUes. owing to rain having swoollen the streams. It took 52 days of hard walking before Wrang- el was reached on tbe return trip. Game was plentiful and many a grouse and jiorcupine did Sandy stow away lx>bind his lielt. On the Laird River every bar prospected showed $9 to $6 a day in gold. He met two Colorado outfits, one guided by Gillespie, of Victoria going up the Francis Lake to winter. In the spring they intend- ed to push on to Klondike, via Kelly River McKay >-»vs that this is the test route to Dawson City and that he would not be afra'd to make the entire trip with only a gun, some salt and plenty of blankets. A CAREFUL BUYER. Customerâ€" Keep any fly traps 1 Grocerâ€" Best in town. Only success- ful fly trap on the market. Use 'em in my" store all tbe time. Let me show you one. You see. the flies enter here. l^asB through this aperturew and are unable to return. Cleans a room of (lies in no time. Wraip you tvp onef You find them good, practical, effi- cient traps do you f Absolutely. Use them yourself. I believe you s<«id. All the time. Make one to you real low as the season's nearly over. You don't have hardly any flies around your store when you use this trai>, do you I You bet I don't. This trap is the best â€" All right then. Give me two pounds of dried currants. DAWNING OF AN AGITATOR. His Mammaâ€" Don't you know. John- ny, that disobedience to your (larents brings its own punishment. Have you forgotten that the commandment says Honor thy father and thy mo- ther, that tbe days may be long in tbe the land? Jcuhnnyâ€" Huh! The days are too long already. We want 'em shorter! A MOMFIFJ) .AGREEMENT. Magistrateâ€" If I discharge you this time will you go vlean out of the citv. Musty Miteâ€" Well, I'll go out of the city. 4«aM Facts aad rtgarea Absal iks Crcsl â- larral IfralUi u^ fit* «ardea af Cas alia â€" The Baal* at rrasperttT. A Canadian correspondent of this PaiJ Slail Gazette, London, England, thus speaks of the minerai resources of Can ada, especia'ily its good fields: â€" Can- ada's opportunity as a mineral country has come. She has waited long, an* now after man? years, atteotion has «id- dentiy and emphatically t*en called to her wealth bythegoiden stories from nhe Klondike. If '=^"g-'''* investors rise to tbe occasion, it is not improbah.b tiat, in the near future, a "Beaver Mea<fcm-," may oatrivai the Kaffir Circus on tto London Exchange. For the moment, the attention of the Bnt- iaii paJSio has been centred upon the fabulnua wealth of Alaakan fields; bnt if that long-Bi^fering ptiblio is wise it wiii fight very eiij of companies, brought out in London, to operate in tiat Antic '.and. Hie beautifully vague terms rf the protq>ectu« of a company, "formed for tJto purpose of acquiring at tjke eariWsit pD^.ble date valuable tniniTig cdalms" in tlte region of Eeqm- maus and FoCar tieaiB. Should deceive nobody. THERE ARE OTHERS. ^Eixpectatioos are, an a general' rule. not marketable, and tbe highly-col- oured, fantasfiic phrases, which on this occaaon from tbe promoter's' stock-in- trade, oupht. not to ikiduce any one to part witi his niooey, even though the proinoter be a co.'oniaJ baronet or an ex-premier, or a chief ju«ice for tbal matter. Out of tbe dozeci of "Klondike" and "Tukoo " companies that have sprung suddenly into existence, there ils aikly one that possesses a claim, or anything eilse ot vhUm, in the new fields. Gold mining on an iceberg is not an attractive proposition at any time, bui wheo Englishmen read the tale« of bardsibip and disaster <.>f tbe 9.0OU men now in tbe White Pass, they will wise- ly pause before putting up their pounds, and weigh xibK advantages and disadvantages of ubia district with th.*e o< other Canadian gold fields. For Itiere are other (Xnaditin gold fields. Tie Klondike will serve its pur- pose it it mere.y acts as an advertise- ment for Canada's mineral wealth, and if its richee mereL'>- draw attention to the vaat and spCendUl gold fields of Kootenay and of North-western On- tario. It is toward these two districts that the eyes of Ouaadians are turned ; and it in on them lihnt the bu|:es for Canada 'a fujture asagol'd mining coun- try are based- They are fields which are acc«-(>>ii>:e. permanent, and of proved value, and which the English pu'olic would do well to givie attenliuo to as the country for .egitimate and s|.ien- didly paying inve^-iment. THE KOOTENAY DifiTRJCT. Of theee two districts the Kiotenay is fairly well known, aa ir is situated in Britladi Columbia, wbeore many Eng- li^ah couipa.nies are interested. The gold fie.ds of Ontario, the must central of all Canada'a prxyvinces, are, on the other hand, a new discovwry. They extend a-ong thn north shore of Lake i^ifierior to the boundary of Manitoba, almost 600 miles, and Ivive a width of 130 miillw, thus forming a vast parallelo- gram of, rouglil"v, 7.000 square mile*. Like the K *ndiie^ it b* a country which, by the work of providence and uf man, liea just within British terri- tory. For some years vast wt>nderfuil speci- mens ofgv>ld hiiveleen found invari- oua parts of the greo-t tra«.-t of coun- try, and Indians and settlers have brought in tales of its ri -hnees; but, un- ti'. the summer of 1896, noiutive ojtera- tioim were l*gun. Prospectors swarmed intu the district in the spring of that year, and many cx>uipanie» were formed to work, and ns resuu'i there are now tweuve mills msialled and 1 t.'i stamps in operation, ihi-n is, otf coiirsi" sma-lH, liut It is the lommenceoneut of a boom which ialxMind to reach London. In 1896 tbeee mills treated lO.OlU) tima cf ore, which showed an average of near. y tl5 per tonâ€" neur.y aJI of this ore being from the surface, and therefore of a comporaiively poor quaJity. REST IN THIi WORLD. It is douib«tful whether any other gold ret'iou in the world Buarpasses north- western Ontario for the prosecution of the g<.«ld-mining indujstry. In the first. P'lja»-e. the ore is free milling to the greatewl extent, and therefore can be ea>«ily and cheapl.v worked, with a quick return fo* a sjiiall t'Uilajy of capital. Tbe gofd ih found wat.tered tbrou^h- (Mi. the quartz by it*»l;f. or in combin- ation with auli'liur only, the removal of which is not. naiu^^ so difficult a prok-ees as the separation of go.d, sil- ver. cof>peT. and lead when all are found in a n>ug.bmieru.te mai». In tact the ore is free mJJling to such an extent that 90 or HI) per cent, of the gold may lie Be«-ured un<ler the stamps, and ct>nj>eq.uient'.\ no great Bmelting Pihnt is required to treat tbe metal. The set-ood advantage is the abund- ance, oi water 9U4>j>liy, foiT power and other purpoeee; the whoile area of the g«.d fiends being a net work ot rivers, sitreams and lakes. In consequence of this fact the need for raLliway and roads is not nearjy so im^peraiive as it wouklt. otherwim Iv. and even the most remote part of tbe regiun ils not more than forty mifM from railway or^team- boat. In the last pl.ioe there is an un- limited mupply of timber, suitable for every jiurpoe* i>f the miner, alwve and be.t>w ground, for aupperts, buildings, and fuel. In western Australia wood for fupC costs $10 per cord, whereas in (Ontario it can (« laid down at tbe> nune for lean than $Z i«r cord. La- boor alfao is okMip- â- a<t â- â-  * ivanlt "^ aii these ooadAiaaa. ore caa be treat- ed at an average of |4 a ton. A tea H-tam.p mi.U, c<«rcing $10,000, wi^l ea^ -y p«ilt through twenty-five tone of ore a day, wtiub. at the vaJus ot say f 10 per ton, would m«an a. revanue of t0>- Boo a niMiih, whiija ihe cost oX opex- atme would be leas Then »a,OO0. NOT AN EX-PEIBJMENT ONLY. Tlie district la past the experiment- al stage ; it 2iab be«n pixyved. In Lha Lake of ttie Wood** tsection is a mine, kncAv-n aaSultana Island, whicn is typi- cal of many more to come. Last yean a ch.brination plant was added to » ten istamp mill, and since then the mine has lieen workinir nigbt and day. Tbs abaft oi the vein now being worked ia down 350 feet, with. 1,000 feet of drift- in&; and the vein luie grown richee and larger as greater depLb«» are reurhed. It ?ari««» from 35 feet to' 50 i«?i in wid-.h. The output of buJion S*?Ai?'*' 'wee't-y. and there isomer ll.- uuo,000 worth of ore actua-ly in sight. ^">'-i»*f typira. property is the '^i- â- ado Mine, " owned in Eng^nd by par- ties who porchnsed on surface indica- tionn. A mii test of 140 lom* on this property gave alkncst «ly,0UO la gold, *aa sucteen days' work, ending Sept* ^t, gave a goCd brick worth »lt),00O, K ^^^^ to the east of the properties there has been discovered by an Indian and one James Hummond. a tremend- out reef three mii.es long, and oUU feeb wide at its widest part. Wheni tested, tWa vast body at ore shovted $17 pew wn m free gold, faoiide concentrates. THE MICHIPIOOTEN DISTRICT. Further eastwrard stiU, in the great para.ielogram. is the Miiiliipcofen. which, if food horpes are reaJzed. will prove a second Kjondiia. Newa of riob p,acer and quartz discoveri^ was brought down from tbe dltstrict last week, and a msb of Ameri«-un« and Canadians has taken place. A hundred yean* ago the Hudson flhy Company's reports mentioned the fact that guld *?"»^<i in the sands of the streams there, bu* the jxnuntry was then so diXficuj.*, of accees that no effort wa* made to get at tbe deposits. Now. how- ever, the railway takes the prospector wuhtn a few mi.les of Lake Wa-Wa, where the richest discoveries have lieen mads, and is lA, is a liue.y wooded, country, poGscesing a moderate cli- mate, there are no bardshtps su..b as *"> met with in the Yukon. Teets ot the quiirtz samples have run verv high, and tehoujltf the report of placers' prove true, the boom of Michipicoten wii dTOwn that of K.ondike. THERE B MORE TO FOLLOW. NiunerouB and ri h .oa thedisctnerlea already made un'ioui.tedly are. th' dis- trict issovast in extent, and bas been so recently opened vfi. .hat it ha3 only been partially pru<spe.-ied. So far the exploration but uren lOnfiaed lo ths w-atervouises. and the great portion ot the.-«i«iTry inland ao tospeok, has not e>-en been run over by | ruapectors. Mure than this there is no reason for eut'tH.**ing that the go.d dist-overj- will he confined to even the great district indi.-ated; for tlie country rock, which is Uurxmian and Laurentiaa, extends over a far wider se<-;iun of territory. It ma^ be asserted with tni.th that pifd discovery in the district has only just begun; but it may be also assert- ed, with even siore truth, that the w-i.y wrork of pruzuotion is well ad- vanced. Hboee>t promutiDn is a useful and ne^-eesarv work ; boit, in a case ik« uhis, where there is much thiit is genuine and good, tbe dishonest pro- moter gets in IMS work. It therefore i'choones intending Eng.ish investor* to le raujliwiB. Let them have personal knowledge of pruperiim offered, or, at the ..eajjit, let the«n have a reliable engineer's retort Iwfore investing one shilinir. Cuada's great opportunity must not be spoiled by the bogus H-hemee of fakirs, who are sure to reach fW the puciiets of tbe British puiblic. ACCUSED or NINETEEN MURDERS. Tarker'* Brcard Ik,- Ha«l TerrlMe la tke I*l»'ttr7 af 1l««lern 4>lai^«. There is no longer any doubt that Vacher. the I'rencb Jack the Ripjer, has tbe bloodiest records in the mod- ern history of violent crimes. He is D«w ac.'used of nineteen murders and two assaults on women. He confe^'Sed to 'eleven murders and admits that there were more, but declines to give details. His confessions have been fully subetantiated in most cases. The latest charge against him is the murder of a girl 19 years old nuiued Therese Ply. ^he was walking on the ruad near Kiuarville at 5 o'clock on the evening cf April 5 last. The man caught her I'y the thrat and threw her down. The next day .she was found dead, her Iwdy lieanug thirteen knife* thrusts, while two fingers were cut frnm tbe hands. Investigation led to no results twyond the fact that a tramp, who is supjiosed to have i>eea Vacher. had been sf en ou the road by pea,!<ant3 before and after the crime. The wayfarer was described by the countrymen .xh having spoken in a fantastic manner like the murderer n.iw under examination who has re- |.e.ite lly declared that he was ra^ed up by Divine Providence as a scourge til huuuinity. .Another pernon who wa.<) first ac- cused instead of Vacher. btis now (â- een cleared of the terrii le suspicion He is a twasant. narnt I I?annier. and be was under arrest ft r three wee'-ts on a charge of the murder of one of the shepherd lads wh<se threats were cut bv Vacher. TIW: QT-EEN-S NEW YACHT. Queen Victoria evidently expects to live for m.any years to come, for she is tuauifesting a very keen interest in the construction of her new yacht, which is to take the place ofthe old Victoria and Albert. Indeed, so eager is she to have the new y.icht in readiness for her use next ye»r that .â- â- ho demanded that its constructiou should be carried on without any interruption day or nigbt by relays of artificers. LIVE WITH THE DEA». Thousands of Egy!.itians live in old tombs, eating, slee^ang. wooing, loving, laughing, dancing, singing, d«Mng all their deeds of daily life and household ncrk among the mumuiles and sarco- phagi.

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